How to make a pumping schedule ?

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Do you guys use apps ? 
I’m tired of waking up from a nap or getting home and feeling the intense chest swollen pain like I can’t hold them up in my own. 
How many times a day do you pump ?

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What about the chest pain ? My nipples and boobs get so swollen I wake up from a nap ( after emergency c, I’m on meds so I nap a lot) and than my chest is throbbing and has like lighting pains. Can milk ducts get clogged ? My nipples get like sacks underneath them until I pump too ?

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I use the pump log app. My goal is every 3 hours for 20 minutes. Most days I get 6 pumps, some days 8. It all depends if I’m able to get up in the middle of the night. (I try to get up twice to use these pumps for freezer stash).
the app helps me track trends in my milk, my stash and sends reminders when it is time for my next pump. I found it helpful.

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I almost exclusively pump due to latch problems and this is what I follow. I sleep through the night and pump a ton in the mornings so it’s worth the engorgement.

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I never go more than 4 hours without pumping or nursing him (we do a mixture of breastfeeding and pumped milk) unless it's overnight. Overnight I feel really uncomfortable when I wake up but I'd rather have the sleep and my little guy typically sleeps through the night so I like to mimic his schedule.

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I try to pump every 2-3 hours.  Nighttime is really hard though because I'm so exhausted after 7 months of getting up to pump multiple times a night that I'm sleeping through my alarms now and only wake up to my baby making noise.

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I sometimes set an alarm, but mostly it just fits our schedule well.  I pump every 6 hours, getting 10-14 ounces each time.  I started that schedule at 2 weeks pp and at almost 6 months I’m still going.  Supply dropped a bit once I got my period back and had a few late pumpings, but I’m getting it back.

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Every 2-3 hours. I dont keep a set schedule, i just try to do it that often. Sometimes I cant do it that often. I stopped doing it at night once she stopped waking up at night. That was far enough in, my supply hasnt diminished from that.

How to make a pumping schedule ?

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