How often do you pump?

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Hello!
My 7 week old gets 50/50 of breast milk and formula. I’m realiZing I can get much more sleep if I didn’t pump through the night. How often does everyone pump throughout the day? I’m not back at work yet, and it usually is about every 4 hours. Last night though I stretched it to 6 hours, I was so tired. (And my baby was sleeping)

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I'm exclusively pumping, my baby is 9 weeks tomorrow, and I'm pumping every 3-4 hours. Even when he sleeps through the night, I make sure to have at least 1 pump session in the night. I don't set an alarm or anything like that at night. I usually have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. So I also make that my night session.

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I pump 2-3 times per day and try to nurse him 1-2 times. The rest of the day he gets bottles either formula or breast milk.

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For my first two babies when I dropped that night pump, my body was like oh you must not need much milk then and cut my supply by about half. So for me I didn’t just lose the ounces I pumped at night, I lost a lot more! With my second and eventually with this one, I won’t drop my night pump until I’m ready to reduce my supply!

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I would just nurse overnight so you’re not waking up just to pump

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im doing all breastmilk, pumping whenever i wake up, & then every 4-6 hrs after but i still put her on boob in between .  depending on how long she stays on boob ill get like 5 ounces at most between both . so it ends up being like 4 times a day but she feeds like 6 or 7 total . my baby is like a eat some , nap , eat some, get up & stare at you , eat a real bottle worth & then sleep for like 6 hrs lol ive been stocking like 4 bags a week of milk at this point. she is 7 weeks

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I recently switched to 50/50 breast milk (via pump) and formula last week. I have been trying to gradually increase my stretches in between before going back to work. I started going to 4 hrs between pumping and now I’m up to 4-5ish hrs between pumping. I was doing 2-3 during the day and 3-4 at night but it was just tooo much. I have stretched it to 6 at night but was rather uncomfortable but hopefully will get there! Also have been decreasing the time of pumps 15 seconds every day. I’m now down to 13min 45 seconds today

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My 6week old baby also gets about 50/50 breast milk and formula. I’m trying to up my supply with my pump schedule but so far I haven’t noticed much of a difference. I typically pump every 2-3hrs and nurse about 2 times per day. Overnight I will go 4hours between pumps.