Advice-input please on my nursing/pumping schedule!!
I would greatly appreciate feedback!! This is the schedule I’m finding that works... am I at risk of my supply dropping giving her a bottle at night too?
My baby is almost 3 mo old and I have just gone back to work 80% full time working 6.5hr days.
(We have family at home watching her now, but I will take her to Daycare starting Dec 31. She will be over 4 mo old then)
6am I wake up and get ready for work
630am nurse baby
650am-ish pump after nursing
8am I leave for work
930am pump at work
1230pm pump at work
3pm pump at work
330pm leave work and get home by 4pm
430-5pm-ish nurse baby on demand
7pm baby’s bathtime and night routine
730pm-ish bottle of 3-4oz breastmilk and nurse after if needed to get baby sleepy
Hopefully baby is asleep by 830pm
My daughter sleeps 9-11hr with a bottle of breastmilk at night. If I just nurse her she wakes up between 230-430am. I just don’t have enough nursing her at night to get her through... I also really need sleep for my job.
On weekends I only pump once in morning after morning feed and nurse on demand.
I def pump most in morning after first feed and she takes 4oz bottles of my breastmilk while I’m away.
Is 4 pumps a day enough??
TIA for your feedback!!
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