Avoid nighttime engorgement?

Question

Currently my 4 month old baby is still eating every few hours at night (😵‍💫). My question is once she sleeps for longer stretches, do you mommas wake up and pump to maintain supply or do you wake up engorged? Does your supply adjust to sleeping through the night?

Answer

Your body will regulate on its on. Waking up to pump will only make things worse.
If you wake feeling engorged, just hand express until comfortable.

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i pump once or twice at night just so i don’t have a supply drop or feel uncomfortable

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I never got up to pump. If I woke up engorged I would hand express enough to be comfortable. Then in the morning would use a haaka to collect the rest. My body regulated on its own after 2 weeks or so.

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My son was 6 months when he started sleeping through the big night. I don’t pump cause he won’t drink from a bottle so I was engorged for the first few days then it got better. Now if he sleeps an extra hour or two which sometimes he does I’ll get engorged again

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Your supply adjusts to baby’s changing needs. My son is 3 months and has been sleeping longer stretches for a couple weeks now. He usually has a feed between 10pm-12am and then again between 4-8am. 
We bedshare to make night nursing easier for both of us, and it’s what helped him sleep easier through the night. The first week, my breasts were leaking a lot, I was waking up every morning with stains on my shirt lol. But now I don’t leak barely at all. 
If you pump, it’ll just send signals to your breasts that they need to continue making milk at that time and it’ll cause an oversupply issue. Your best bet is to follow baby’s lead. Pump during the day if you need to build a stash, use a haakaa or manual pump to relieve engorgement as needed.

Avoid nighttime engorgement?

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