I’m returning to work after 12 weeks of leave and hope to continue to provide breast milk for my baby. I have a small supply built up (~80oz). I have a few questions:

1. Do you pump into bottles then pour that into bags and reuse the bottles for the next session? I don’t want to be doing tons of dishes.

2. Do you give baby freshly pumped milk or frozen milk?

3. If I nurse at 6:30am to get to work by 8-8:30, I will have to pump already at 9:30, 12:30, and 3:30. It just seems crazy that I have to pump almost right after arriving at work and then almost right before I leave. Any tips? I can’t think of a way to reduce it to two feedings/sessions while I’m away.

4. My baby still usually has an overnight feeding. Sometimes this is at 5am, which would be really close to when I would like to feed her before work(6:30/7ish). Do you recommend just doing the feeding before work anyway?

5. Recommendations for bags and coolers?

Any other tips would be wonderful! It seems so daunting to go back to work and to try and pump, but I want to do this so badly for my baby!