Skipping a night pump?

Question

I saw someone posted a 3 hourly pump schedule for newborn to 3m. I’m wondering if anyone’s skipped the 3am pump regularly without major issues. Will that really decrease my supply to go 6 hours without pumping? I have a 3 year old so I can’t ever catch up on missing sleep, I’m lucky if I get 4 hours a night right now. My baby is 2 weeks and I breastfed my first so I’m pretty new to EPing.

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My lactation consultant told me to go 4 hours at night. So I pump at 10pm, 2am and 6am. For the 2am one I usually just pump after I feed the baby at night, so that time remains flexible.

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When I started trying to go 6 hours without pumping, my supply TANKED, especially with a baby that young. I know it sucks, but while your baby is still this small, you've got to pump as often as they feed to maintain supply.

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I was only BFing I only fed him when he woke up. So when he was sleeping all night at 8 weeks, I did not wake up to pump. Never affected my supply at all. After a week or so it regulated to where I could sleep a full 8 hours 🙌🏼

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I was losing my mind with having to wake up in the night, so I started doing 6-8hr stretches to see if anything would change, and amazingly my supply didn’t decrease! I’ve been taking domperidone for my low supply issues and that works like a charm

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If you have enough supply, you may skip the session. When you get up, you’ll be full :)

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I have been wondering this too, so I'm interested to read responses. My little one is 2 weeks old and in the NICU, so I exclusively pump. My milk came in strong and we have a lot stored at the hospital and here at home... But I have noticed a decline in my supply the last few days, and I'm wondering if it's because I occasionally go 5-6 hours between nighttime pumps and I often struggle to get 8 sessions in a day... My supply is still a lot more than he eats right now, but I don't want it to continue to drop... I guess I should man up and pump more often 🤷 But yeah, sleep is nice.

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I skip one or two pumps every now and then when I’m completely exhausted and have never had any problems.

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I never dropped the middle of the night pump necessarily. Over a couple weeks, I would pump later and later (unintentionally. I just wanted to sleep a little longer!) so I was pumping at 3 am, then over time it was 4 am, then 5 am, etc. And it ended up merging with my first morning pump. It seemed to work well for me and I never experienced much engorgement.

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I pump extra long and massage like crazy to get  every last drop out when I miss in the middle of the night.

Skipping a night pump?

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