https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:12:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167452 Tue, 05 May 2015 10:10:11 +0000 ktdid23 2167452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Miss Ariel: Thanks for the response!! That gives me a good idea of what to plan for. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167428 Tue, 05 May 2015 10:02:35 +0000 snowjewelz 2167428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I leave 12-14 oz total when I'm at work so she would eat 4oz 3 times. Sometimes she eats less, sometimes more. She is 5 mo now and has never ate more than 5 and has drank as lil as 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167395 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:45:20 +0000 ktdid23 2167395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: great idea! I will have to send the bottles ready to feed, but I do have a few smaller bottles that I can send an oz or two in! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167385 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:43:42 +0000 ktdid23 2167385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: awesome, I figured as much. I'm just not sure how much to put in the bottles. If I'm pumping, I can get 4-5 oz per side each session, but I know he doesn't take that much if I'm nursing.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167381 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:42:00 +0000 ktdid23 2167381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@brownie: oh, this is good to know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167361 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:37:07 +0000 Anagram 2167361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ktdid23: I work in a middle school and I can't just pump whenever--I could only pump on my planning period and at lunch. Luckily, my planning period was around 9 am, and my lunch was around 12:30, so that worked out.</p> <p>I started out pumping at 9, 12:30, and then after 3 pm during my commute home...after a couple of months of that, I dropped down to just pumping on my lunch (but started doing lunch earlier, at 11:30) and pumping on my way home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167321 Tue, 05 May 2015 09:15:59 +0000 Miss Ariel 2167321@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I went back to work she was 10 weeks old. She was drinking 4 4-oz bottles, although I always send a 5th one just in case. At 4 months we went to 4.5 ounces and that's where we still are just before 5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2167137 Tue, 05 May 2015 07:04:40 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2167137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ktdid23: I went back to work at 12 weeks pp. I work from 7:30 to 5:00. The first week, I tried to do 4 pumping sessions a day but that was just too much. I felt like I was spending my entire day pumping. I ended up nursing in the morning, then pumping at 9, noon, and 3, then nursing as soon as I got home. You just have to sort of play around with the schedule and number of sessions to see what works for you. Eventually I dropped to 2 pumping sessions a day when my daughter started solids.</p> <p>As far as the amount, if you're sending frozen milk, one piece of advice that was helpful for me was to send a few one ounce bags in addition to whatever else you sent. Our daycare had very strict rules that if she didn't finish a bottle, they had to dump it. The first weeks, I sent 3 ounce bottles with a few one and two ounce bags, so if she needed more, they could just 'top her off' without wasting a whole bottle. During those first weeks, we figured out how much she was eating at each feeding and didn't need to do the little bags anymore. She ended up taking 4.5 ounce bottles three times a day, but I'd always send 4 bottles just in case. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2166889 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:36:43 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2166889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ktdid23: during the hours you are gone take note how many times you nurse. That should about be the number of pumping a/bottles needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2166884 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:33:31 +0000 brownie 2166884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>La Leche recommends 1 to 1.5 oz per hour you are away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2166874 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:21:01 +0000 ktdid23 2166874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaCate: awesome, thank you! I work in a preschool, so I am trying to figure out how many times I will be able to pump and I'm going to try to work around that (and see what my output is :-) ) so that I can continue to provide breast<br /> milk for as long as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2166868 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:16:27 +0000 MamaCate 2166868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ktdid23: My pediatrician said to assume 2oz + 1oz for every month of age per feeding. So in your case I would aim for 4 oz bottles. Hopefully by then LO is on a sort of schedule and you should pump for each feeding you miss. We did bottles around 10 and 2 so I pumped then and fed right before drop off and right after pickup. </p> <p>Kelly mom is probably a good resource too. They said eventually breastfed babies stabilize the number of ounces they need so I sent 5 oz bottles at 3 months and then 5 1/2 oz bottles the rest of the year. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-pumping-question#post-2166864 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:09:40 +0000 ktdid23 2166864@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I bf on demand, but I'm going back to work in 4 weeks and I have no idea how much I should plan for bottles at school and how many pumping sessions I'll need. Any ideas/guidelines? My LO will be 8 weeks old when I go back to work. </p>