We try to give R a bottle every few days so he's used to it and not attached to me. So I usually pump before bed. If we don't feed him a bottle or a few days I've been freezing some. Right now I have six 4 oz bags frozen. Not going back to work anytime soon so I don't have a goal or anything....but it's nice to know I could be away for day if I had to 
How many oz of breastmilk do you have frozen?
grapefruit / 4418 posts
3 oz - it's my last bag! But, DD is a year. I had 25 ounces or so I the freezer when I went back to work. (DD took 12 oz at daycare). The most I ever had stashed was about 100 oz. I never had an issue pumping for the next day (after the first month or so back at work) so I never found it important to have a big stash. Most of my stash was created around 8-9 months when DD ate more solids and took less milk but i kept pumping the same amount.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
40-60? I don't remember exactly how many bags I have... I def don't have the stash I want, but it's something!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I don't know the exact number... at least 200 oz. Logan is 3 months. I've been fortunate that I've been able to pump more than he eats at daycare each day.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
I just found 48 oz at the bottom of my deep freezer. It should still be good but I am not sure if my LO will drink it anymore!
apricot / 288 posts
One bag left. I was so happy to supplement with formula this time around and never even bothered with trying to build a stash.
grapefruit / 4584 posts
somewhere between 10 and 20 4-5 oz bags....so I guess anywhere from 50 - 100 oz?
LO gave up on bottles pretty early on, unfortunately, so we just are using it for the occasional emergency sippy cup to leave with a babysitter or in baby food.
pear / 1610 posts
We have probably around 1000 ounces right now! I stopped bf-ing in January but had a big stash and have been donating it. Right now DD, 14 months still drinks mostly bf from a cup. I'm waiting on coolers for my last donation to get shipped to me.
persimmon / 1361 posts
0. She is 3 weeks shy of a year though so we'll be switching to cow's milk soon. I'm amazed by women who have a huge stash to allow their LO to get some BM for a while after they stop actively BF'ing themselves. We've been having to supplement with formula since she was around 9 months.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Maaaaybe 30 ounces? I wish it was more but it's better than what I had for dd 1 which was 0!
pomelo / 5132 posts
Now? 0 because he's 15 months and finished the last of it around 13/14 months. I had over 500 at the peak, I think.
clementine / 849 posts
I'm down to 480 oz. I exclusively pumped and had an oversupply...at one point I had 3000 oz after donated 4000. I weaned in November and she was EBF until February, and now down to one bottle a day.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
I don't know! I have bags in my own freezer, in my parents' freezer, and in my IL's freezer!
grapefruit / 4712 posts
I am not sure about amounts but my whole chest freezer is full. 
Kicker is kid hates breast milk of it doesn't come directly from mommy. 
I have been mixing it into solids.
pear / 1961 posts
Not sure -- something like 350oz probably? Since I SAH, I could probably stop...
pomelo / 5720 posts
Probably somewhere between 400-500 oz. I have a oversupply and have been pumping almost daily since she was born in October. Now that I'm back to work two days per week, I'm pumping 2-6oz per day more than she drinks.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
I been pumping for 2 months now and have around 60 bags frozen, so between 250-300 ounces. I get ahead by 1 bag (5 oz) a day, and will usually freeze 2 or 3 on the weekend as well.
eggplant / 11408 posts
125 ounces here, and 50 at my parents' house. Just counted it yesterday, so I can figure out when I get to pump wean! 
eggplant / 11408 posts
@bushelandapeck: @josina: this is me, too. There was one weekend I pumped 50 ounces more than we needed. Craziness.
grapefruit / 4213 posts
About 230 ounces in the deep freezer right now that I'm going to donate since LO2 was put on prescription formula for food allergies
bananas / 9899 posts
I think I have like three bags, so whatever that is. Last time I tried to give DD milk that had been frozen she refused it, so I haven't frozen that much.
clementine / 806 posts
1,600 oz in our deep freeze right now. LO is 5 months, and I almost exclusively pump (we nurse 1x day, even when I'm home) and have had oversupply since the beginning.
I'm off dairy due to CMPI, so I'm eagerly awaiting the tipping point where I have enough frozen to get him through to 1 year, so I can stop pumping and eat cheese again!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@pui: yeah I have excess lipase so don't go crazy with freezing! Just want enough to get by!
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
0! Haven't started yet. But DD1 wouldn't touch a bottle OR my frozen milk so I'm not realy dying to do it again.
persimmon / 1050 posts
Just over 900 ozs here. I EP & usually end up with about 20 ozs extra everyday. I'm running out of room in my standup freezer in my garage though. 
pomegranate / 3231 posts
I stopped pumping at 9.5 months, but the most I had in the fridge was 84oz. I had a hard time keeping up after 6mo and spent the last 3.5 months slowing working my way through my freezer stash.
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
0. I haven't pumped once since having DD. We're just exclusively nursing.
honeydew / 7283 posts
@AngelicOne: 20oz extra a day? that's amazing.
I probably have about 300 frozen. I pump after his first feed every day and freeze that, plus I pump a little more than he needs on the days that I'm working.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
How do some of you have so much extra?! Do you have to switch out bottles while pumping?! Holy $hiet!!!
pomegranate / 3890 posts
about 15-20 ounces. enough to get me through two days of work. i only work twice a week but its slim sometimes but we make it work!
pear / 1610 posts
@regberadaisy: I always pumped before I went to bed and first thing in the morning. I would feed DD around 7 and then pump around 10 and get anywhere from 5-10 ounces. She usually slept until 3-5am depending and then would only eat off of one side so I would pump again after she was back in bed and get another 6-8 ounces. With DS I had to wake up to pump in the middle of the night to keep up my supply so I got lucky this time but was paranoid about losing supply so I pumped when I could. If DD only ate off one side sometimes I would pump the other quickly afterwards if I had the chance.
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