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@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.

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!

La Leche recommends 1 to 1.5 oz per hour you are away.

@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.

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.

@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.

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.

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.