Hello mums!
What are your thoughts on random pumping? Yesterday my daughter slept longer than usual, so I felt really full and my breasts started to hurt, so I pumped and emptied them.
Could doing this occasionally affect my milk supply?
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Pumping when baby sleeps long stretches can help maintain and sometimes even boost your milk supply! It helped me create a great freezer stash! Even when I pump then feed my baby she seems to get another let down! Baby’s are much stronger then pumps. If she’s still hungry after I give her more milk!
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Many thanks
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I came to say this as well
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I sometimes have random pump session. I don’t think it ever messed with my supply. Sometimes I drunk a lot more water and electrolytes and the next morning I’m engorged. Then it goes back to normal the day after
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This!!! I second this, don’t let yourself get Engagement and hurt either you can drop your milk supply if you to relieve it like if anything getting the milk supply out and giving yourself relief will just tell your body to make more
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I don’t think over long term it will effect it. It will definitely help maintain your supply tho. I use to do the same and it worked pretty good.
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