LO will be 1 in a few weeks at which point I am planning to stop pumping at work. I currently pump twice (once at 10:30 and once at 2). I am considering splitting the difference and going to one pump session around noon starting next week.
How long before you quit pumping at work did you go down to one session?
pomegranate / 3272 posts
I stopped pumping at work around 11 months as I had enough of a freezer stash to get me to 1 year. I think I went to 1 session maybe a few weeks before I stopped.
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
@MUI831: Yeah, I have a couple hundred oz in my freezer stash, so I'm not worried about making it to a year. I'm more worried about being engorged because I still do get engorged occasionally. Did you notice a dip in your supply when you went down to 1 pumping session?
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Once Xander turned one, I dropped a pumping session at work each week. So I went from 3 for a week, to 2 for a week, to 1 for a week, and then stopped. And each day, I would pump for a little bit less until I dropped the session.
pomegranate / 3411 posts
i stopped pumping at work around 15 months and now at almost 20 months, we are still doing 2 nursing sessions a day (morning and bedtime). I don't foresee LO giving up either on his own for a while, though I think if I wanted to give up the morning one it would be easier to distract him with other things.
Also, from about 12-14 or 15 months, we were probably doing 3 nursing sessions (morning, after work and bedtime). He gave up the after work one gradually so it is hard to say exactly when.
eta. when i was pumping at work from 12-15 months, it was only at lunchtime and i skipped days more and more before i stopped completely.
pomegranate / 3272 posts
@lawbee11: I don't remember there being a big dip. I was only nursing morning and at night at that point and don't remember him having a lot of issues when I would nurse on the weekends. Then again, he did self wean right around a year and I don't know if that's b/c my supply dipped or if he was just done.
pomegranate / 3411 posts
oh and i never felt engorged or a dip. It seems my supply adjusted accordingly.
pear / 1672 posts
I think I was doing 1 pump per day for about 3 -4 weeks or so? I stopped pumping when she was 13 months.
nectarine / 2280 posts
I went to one session around 16 months and stopped pumping around 19 months. No engorgement issues but I still feel a little tingly around the time for my afternoon pump. I still nurse quite a bit when I'm home with her.
coconut / 8472 posts
I started out pumping at 12 and 4, then I dropped the 4 session and moved pumping to 2ish. Then I just stopped pumping. But I was on decongestants for a really bad sinus infection that took a huge hit on my supply, and that's why I decided I had to stop BFing/pumping. I never got engorged or leaked during the day. There were a couple days when I hadn't BF or pumped for like 24 hours and I had a problem, but my supply tanked really quickly.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
I went down to one pumping session last month. I went from 3 to 2 to 1. I went pump free two weeks ago. yay!!!! I nurse at night if I'm feeling engorged or if he wants to nurse. Otherwise, I give him a bottle of frozen BM.
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