Breastfeeding and sleeping through the night?

Question

Ok so when baby starts sleeping through the night (I know it’s considered a 6-8 hour stretch), what do you breastfeeding mamas do when it comes time for the skipped night feeding? Do you get up and pump or do you just skip that feed all together? Does that not effect your supply and make your boobs feel like they’re about to explode? 😐  My kiddo is eats every 3 hours and 4 at night.

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Depends on if you want to build a stash or not. If you want to pump so you can save some milk, then pump. And if you want your body to adjust to baby’s schedule (less need at night) then don’t pump. You can hand express a bit into the sink (or a milk bag) to relieve the pressure if you’re uncomfortable. 
Your body adjusts to what baby needs (especially if you are an exclusive BF’er as opposed to a pumper), so your body will just make less at night but it won’t hurt your day time supply.

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It really depends on the baby. My son had two nights randomly that he slept 8 hours, but he didn’t really start sleeping through the night until a year old

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I didn’t pump. I didn’t want to over produce. Your body learns to adjust. It will change your supply to where you won’t be engorged or have to pump. At least mine did. It just learns to produce what’s needed. I breastfed for over a year and hardly ever pumped.

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SLEEP lol. Unless you need a stash no need to wake up to pump

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Wait... babies sleep 6 hours at a time?!?! 
Lol but really when my daughter was 3 months she was sleeping 5-6 hours at a time and I didn’t pump, no way was I wasting that sleep time. 
Then 4 month sleep regression hit and... let’s just say I haven’t had to worry about missing feedings at night in a very. Long. Time.

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When mine started sleeping all night, I slept too. Yes, you get full, but after a few days it evens out. I don’t need a stash, so I only pump as needed.

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When my LO started sleeping through the night, I just skipped pumping, unless I was super full. She started doing 7pm-3am, then would sleep until 7:30/8am. So I pump the other side while she ate. Now she’s 3 months and does 7pm-8am. And I get up around 6am and pump both sides.

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I just make sure I offer him both boobs in the morning 🤷‍♀️ which he scoffs down but I'm in a 5-6hr a night sleep atm.

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I naturally have an oversupply, so I don’t pump because it would make it worse. Your body will eventually regulate and skipping an overnight feeding won’t affect your daytime supply.

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My LO has been sleeping a 9 stretch for 2 weeks now. She’s only 2 months so I’m not expecting it to last. I’ve been getting up once about 4 hours in to pump because trying to go 9 hours with out results in me waking up in a milk pool with rock hard breasts. Plus when they are super full when she wakes up to feed it’s a bit uncomfortable for her. So I do it to make sure I don’t regulate yet because I just don’t think this will last and it gives me 2 bottles worth of food for the day just in case my husband needs to feed her.

Breastfeeding and sleeping through the night?

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