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I just started back at work this week and pump four times a day, every 2 hours. I start in the morning getting 3oz between both, then by my last session at 3p I was getting 1-1.5oz. I started taking fenugreek 2 days ago and now that is up to 4oz my first session and 2-3 for each other session.

Thats a little more than you asked I guess. lol

@MrsJazz- My right breast does that also! I call it my lazy boob. lol

@babynumber1: Yep. That darn lazy boob. I've been able to increase the supply in that breast a bit by doing 2 morning feedings from that breast--so I feed LO at 6 am, pump the left side, and then feed her again at 7:45/8 before I leave for work. It still makes much less than the left side, though.

@Mrsdaredevil: Ha! I didn't think it was a lot, but I'm realizing that it is now. I had oversupply issues with LO in the beginning. She also eats often! She'll only eat 2-3 times while I'm away at work and 7-8 times with me, so she's keeping my supply up. I pump more than she eats without me (she eats 12 oz. total while I'm at work) so my freezer stash is growing a lot!

I EBF all day and LO gets a bottle before bed so I pump about an hour after he goes to bed. That's usually 3-4 hours from his last nursing session and I get 2-4 oz.

I've tried pumping an hour after his morning feed and I got less than 10ml!!! I felt like it was such a waste of my time!

@pastemoo: 15oz from one boob!?!?! Holy moly. That is insane!!!! I am in total shock and awe. Go boobies!

I have tendency to have oversupply so I really try not to pump. Last time I pumped though, probably 10wks pp, I got around 5-9oz each breast right after her morning feeding (my L is always way less than my right). I imagine if I pumped now it would be less but then I'd end up engorged again consider I was feel kinda low so I drank a cup of mmt yesterday & bam was full again this morning :-/. I really want to pump so DD can spend some time with grandma but I get engorged for days from just one session & that hurts

I'm not the norm though & I've heard it can take upwards of 6 months for oversupply issues to really, completely, level out.

@pastemoo: Sheesh! I need to wake up and pump in the middle of the night! lol I could pump enough for a whole day at one time! That is AMAZING!

A doctor at the breastfeeding clinic told me that the average mom will pump out .5 oz per boob per hour since breastfeeding. So 1 oz for every hour. This woman told me that she sniffed her daughter's sleeper the entire time she pumped and got out an extra 2 oz!

I will usually get out more if i pump during the day as opposed to the evening when supply is usually lower.

I just went back to work last week, so I'm still getting used to pumping and figuring out the logistics of it. So far, I've been pumping at 9AM (I breastfeed her around 630AM), which usually yields around 10 OZ total. Then I'll breastfeed her anywhere between noon - 2PM (my husband brings her to me so I can feed her), and depending on what time I fed her, I'll usually pump again around 3 or 3:30PM (if I fed her late, I'll just skip the afternoon pump session since I get home by 5PM and feed her as soon as I get home). The afternoon session usually yields about 5 OZ total.

@Coco Bee: Nope.. I'd be more on the exclusively nursing side. DD has only had a handful of bottles & most were b/c she stayed at grandma's for me to catch up on sleep. =)

@Coco Bee: Nope, wasn't me. Although I did go check to make sure I didn't accidentally end up there. lol

When I first started pumping I would get so much - almost 5oz per boob. Then I stopped pumping around 3 months. Around this time LO was only nursing 5 times per day and not nursing at night. I started pumping again at 6 months when we introduced solids and I could barely get an ounce! Now I make sure to drink tons of water and drink the mother's milk tea. I pump once before I go to bed and I get about an ounce on my left side and 2-3 ounces on my right side even though I pump twice as long in my left side.

@Sammyfab: I mixed rice cereal with breastmilk and I made my own purées for her and used breastmilk to thin them out so they weren't too thick for her to eat

PS. The once ounce per hour thing makes sense for what I get out. I only feed one boob at a session, and LO goes fairly long between sessions now, so that's why I get so much.

MrsDaredevil, your LO probably just eats more frequently, so you don't end up filling up as much.

@Sammyfab: lol, that is one pound almost! But yes, sometimes I can only get an ounce! This week I was hand expressing, easily got 2 oz one day (I only brought 2 oz bottles) but later that week I tried to express milk and got less than 1/4 ounce! 2 hours later I got my 2oz so I could go shopping with grandma and leave LO with the guys.
@c.sassy: Your LO must sleep a lot! I go to bed as soon as LO goes down for the night. No night time pumping or me unless LO is awake and won't go back to sleep.
@cvbee: ditto, I tend to only pump when there's a lot in there and my little guy usually only takes one side per feeding.
@Mrsdaredevil: How is she eating now?