Time to pump?

Question

A question to breastfeeding and pumping mom's, how do you find time to pump when baby is constantly on the boob? When I do get a break it's usually just enough to eat or sleep a bit. I am only pumping once a day. She likes to nurse to sleep and will often nurse then fall asleep for 15 min max then wake up and nurse again so I end up just leaving her at my breast. I pretty much live on the couch or in the chair on her nursery. Any advice would be appreciated. 
P.s the main reason I need to pump is to stockpile milk to return to work. My milk seems to be coming in well enough for now.

Answer

Pump after the morning feed and then pump the breast your baby isn't eating from during feeds. Be careful, though, because your breasts make milk based on supply and demand so extra pumping means it will start making extra milk and if you don't want to stick with that feeding/pumping schedule, you'll have oversupply and that's a bitch. If you do want to produce more, I recommend eating steel cut oats, drinking lots of water, and looking up power pumping.

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I skip sleeping and pump while baby is napping. I can usually get him back down by nursing him back to sleep then lay with him to nap. I also pump first thing in the AM before he wakes up so around 4am. I pump after every feeding as well. You could start by doing that. Even if you only get 1oz save it and at the end of the day you will have 6-8oz. That's usually what I do now. I have a little stick pile, and just add on this way now.

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I pump every morning first thing. And my son will only eat from my left side he likes the angle of that nipple better so I'll pump on the right while he eats on the left.

Time to pump?

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