Supply concerns with baby sleeping through the night
I can’t seem to find info on this specifically but I started off exclusively pumping since baby’s latch was too painful, we’re on the other side of that now and now I mostly just nurse her since that’s my preference
However when I was pumping I was told I had to get up in the middle of the night to pump or I was going to lose my supply
Pretty soon after birth I prioritized my sleep and only pumped once at night during one of my daughters wake ups instead of every 2-3 hours, I was still making a little more than my daughter was eating so I wasn’t worried about it and felt way better mentally. 8-12 pumps was just not doable for me
Well then I started just nursing her when she woke up and stopped pumping, but the past few nights she’s been sleeping through the night
I have a large storage capacity so I’ve started pumping a little after her last night feed to empty and then pumping a little after her morning feed to also empty (she’s usually full off of one breast in the morning) but I’m going a full night without anything and she’s only 8 weeks
Am I setting myself up for failure here? I don’t really have a goal for how long to breastfeed for but I definitely want to keep going right now so I’d be upset if I dried up around 12 weeks when I’m supposed to “regulate”
Posted Jan 15, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC