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Pumping at work until 10 months
Employees and Learners Lactating | Last Active: Jul 12, 2018 | Replies (4)Comment receiving replies
@lindseymarx Got it. That is very helpful. Did you still nurse on the days off or also added those into your calculations. I am just not sure if I am off on Saturday and Sunday and I just want to nurse him and not give bottles if that would ruin my work on stopping to pump or if I would not even be able to nurse during the day anymore?
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Thank you so much for the insight! I think this will help me tremendously and I can't wait to be done pumping. 🙂
@bettinahalvorson That is a very good question. Since right now you are able to freeze some at the end of the week you should be able to start reducing at work when you are ready and still be able to supply enough to nurse on the weekends. I can't recall exactly what I did 2 years ago but really by 11 months babies milk intake goes down a bit because they are eating more table foods so I think that gave me an allowance of a couple of bottles during the weekend days if I wasn't making enough to nurse.
On your calculation you could always count the weekends into it to make sure you have enough stored and if you have more than you need then you get to use that past their 1st birthday. Probably better to have to much then not enough.
Weaning is a gradual process, so once you start you will get a feel for how it is going and can make adjustments if you need too. Maybe you will just need to pump once a day for a couple of weeks- when the time comes you will figure out what you need to do.