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nurse at 6/7am (and throughout the day 3-4x on my home days)
nurse at bedtime 730

on my office days
nurse at 6/7am
pump at 10am, 1pm, 4pm
and nurse at bedtime at 730

almost 12 hours at night! thank goodness my engoregment days are gone.

@highwire: bhahahhaha yep, god love our sleeping babies! drop the session!

@highwire: I recently dropped to just 3 pumping sessions (I EP), so I go around 12-13 hours now. My supply has dipped from about 35 oz. a day to 28-30 oz. I've been taking Mother's Milk Tea and Brewers Yeast to keep my supply up, but I may add a 4th session a few times a week if my supply dips any further.. If i were you, i would cut the session then monitor it for a week and reassess how comfortable you are with your supply. Good luck!

I'm nearly 7 months pp and I pump at 6am, 2pm, 10pm. My greatest supply was about 35 ounces a day, but as soon as I got there, I started reducing sessions because I didn't want more than that (lo has never eaten more than 21 ounces in a day). When I dropped from 4 to 3 I lost somewhere between 6 and 8 ounces and I'm now at about 20 a day. We've always been using formula also because of reflux...

And I ALWAYS pump for 30. I totally hate it when people (I mean like LCs or websites) say a specific amount of time is the rule because it just doesn't work for everyone, especially EPers.

I nurse at 5 am, pump the other side at 6 am, then pump at 9, 12, 3 then nurse again between 5-6 pm. I make just about the right amount for my LO every day. She eats 18 oz at daycare. I didn't see supply issues, and after awhile the engorgement works itself out so its not like rocks on my chest in the morning.

On weekends, I only pump the side my LO didn't nurse from once in the morning. I get between 8-10 oz over the weekend that goes in my freezer stash.

My LO is six months old.

@highwire: I just last week stopped 9pm pump and give him formula when I don't defrost enough stored milk.
I'm not worried about supply though (DS still nurses many times at night).

I just dropped that same pumping session and just figure if supply dips too much then might have to pick it up again. But man, that last one before going to bed is the worst. I hated every last minute of it.

@blackbird: Is that 15 minutes in addition to the two minute let down phase, or in combination with the 2 minute let down phase?

That is EXACTLY my pump schedule! And, I hate my 9 pm pump too - I just want to go to bed after DD does!! I have to pump for 40 minutes, because it's a constant drip of milk, I don't think I ever have a real let down. If I stopped at 20 minutes, I'd only have half the milk - and I don't get enough as it is.

I'd love to know if you drop that 9 pm pump how it affects your supply!

@misslipgloss, including the two minutes but sometimes I go 20-25 min (if I'm playing on my phone and don't notice the time) and I don't get anything more if I go that long. First thing in the morning (after not pumping at night), I'll stay hooked up longer, though. I only get about 13-15 oz/day, but I just don't know how to change that because staying hooked up longer doesn't yield me anything extra! Grrr