So I go back to work in 5 weeks, but due to some things I have to take care of during the day and LO's disdain for taking a bottle (the only time he ever had was in the hospital--had to supplement until he had a wet diaper), I wanted to try manually pumping one bottle a day until we got in the swing of things.
LO is 3 weeks old today. I pumped 2 ounces and he guzzled it in about less than 5 minutes. I literally couldn't believe it. It took about 20 minutes or so to pump the 2 ounces and I thought that would be close to plenty. He acted hungry still so I ended up feeding him an additional 10 minutes on one breast and 5 on the other.
Basically...for anyone who might have done the same thing or something similar...how do you figure out how much is too much or not enough? Any advice or expertise would be helpful! It's way more overwhelming than I thought it would be.