I've got about 450 oz and no real desire or need to start working through it yet since I am pumping enough each day to cover him ! I know I need to start cycling through it but the majority of it is pre MSPI elemination so I don't want to give it to him. Blah !
Are any of you strangely proud of your stash? I totally am !
nectarine / 2019 posts
I have um...15oz lol. I stay at home and loath pumping. I donated the 250oz that I did have to another mama in need. I would be proud too though if I had a ton!
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@coacheswife123: wow!! I have hardly any. I can't find time to pump. If I put R down when napping she wakes up. So my time to pump would be right after she eats so I get nothing out. I am just praying I get enough pumping at work for her daily intake.
honeydew / 7303 posts
I have somewhere between 300-400 oz. I don't keep track, but I recently cycled through all of my milk from oct-feb and replaced with march-April milk. I have three plastic shopping bags of milk in my freezer.
Now I have to figure out how to move them 2.5 hours north into our new house next week. Ugh!
GOLD / grapefruit / 4007 posts
People think I'm crazy but its not like I'm actively trying to build it ! When I was home I only froze from one session in the mornings to relieve engoregement ! Now that im at work I'm obviously pumping and freezing way more though. My oversupply is cray
coconut / 8475 posts
@coacheswife123: keep up the awesome work!!!! You're so lucky. As soon as I went on the MSPI diet, I lost my supply:( I Also lost a ton of weight but I was very sad to see my supply go. You're very lucky! Cherish that liquid gold!!
*in my first weeks, I was always able to pump 2 extra feedings! (A day) Like the first 3-4weeks. It felt awesome
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
Maybe 30 ounces, if that! And after my work trip next week, that will be gone.
GOLD / grapefruit / 4007 posts
@TurtleDoves: I pray my supply doesn't take a hit ! As much as I complain about my oversupply I really know I shouldn't !
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
I have about 150 ounces. I had to eliminate so many things so I ended up having to trash a bunch of milk and then losing a lot of maternity leave time where I couldn't freeze anything until we figured out all her intolerances.
apricot / 373 posts
I haaaaaated pumping at first (and rarely did it), so I am proud of my 116 oz! I am now trying to pump at least 5 times per week to keep building it up.
honeydew / 7968 posts
I have.......ZERO! I used it up like 6 months ago when I was on antibiotics and was exclusively pumping and dumping. Never built a stash after that.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I have 9oz. I quit pumping quite a few months ago and never restocked when LO would use it. She barely drank any of it though so most got dumped.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
I currently have around 140 ounces. Right now I freeze 4 ounces a day and LO gets the rest. When she hits 6 months I'm going to drop a feeding (probably the one during work) and we'll make sure she gets 8 ounces a day of milk with the rest being formula.
grapefruit / 4400 posts
I Started With 1000+ Ounces, But Now I Have About 200 Left. C Is Ten Months Old.
I Don't Know Why My Phone Is capitalizing Everything...
nectarine / 2631 posts
10 oz..... But I just started freezing it! I have to work a few more pumping sessions into my day so I can get more!
clementine / 916 posts
@coacheswife123: I'm super proud of my stash too! I EP, which sucks like no other.. Right now I'm counting down the 4.5 months til I can wean from the pump (LO is 7.5 mo.).
I just surpassed 1000 oz.! But managing the stash is starting to become a pain..
kiwi / 629 posts
Three weeks ago I had almost 500oz, then I donated 350 of it. Almost ready to donate 100oz more and then I think I will start building it up again. If you don't think you will have the chance to use your oldest milk, please consider donating! It makes all the time and effort you spent pumping worth it!
grapefruit / 4441 posts
I have zero! I am super jealous. It's all I can do to get enough for daycare - there is rarely any to freeze.
grapefruit / 4006 posts
Like @oahujeni: I had a lot more a weeks ago and then I donated it through human milk for human babies. I donated about 500 oz. so now I have maybe 200 oz left. One of the women I donated to had breast cancer and wasn't even supposed to be able to have children, but she had a miracle baby and wanted to give her baby one bottle of breast milk a day. Please consider donating!
pineapple / 12053 posts
@HabesBabe: that made me laugh. random capitalization.
i have a little over 100 oz. i wish i had more.
pear / 1895 posts
I've got about 130 oz. I pump 1x a day, from one side, so I feel pretty good about my stash! We only have an up-top freezer on the fridge, so I'm not sure how much more it will hold. I wish we had room for a deep freezer and I would pump more to donate.
GOLD / grapefruit / 4007 posts
@SleepyMonkey: @oahujeni: definitely going to look into donating some !
pear / 1614 posts
I was very proud to have over 700 oz at the peak. I'm done BF'ing (LO is 17 mos) but my supply plummeted around 7 mos, I went back to work at 6 weeks so that didn't help. I kept pumping right up to 1 year (exactly) even though I was getting about 1 oz a day from pumping twice a day by the end. I thought I would have enough to donate but held off and I was glad I did, I barely made it to 12 mos.
persimmon / 1420 posts
I've got maybe.... 180ozs? Give or take. I had a bunch more, and going back to work has made it take a hit because I don't have an oversupply any more. STTN is hurting it, too. Oh well. I've made it 6 months without formula, which was my original goal (not that formula is bad! Just a personal, can-I-exclusively-give-breast-milk-to-twins-for-6-months goal). We'll see if I can make a year. I doubt it, but now that we've started solids, it might be OK. Also, school is out in a few weeks, and if I'm just BFing and not pumping, which will help. Yay to everyone with a stash that they're proud of!
nectarine / 2994 posts
I think I have about 10oz in the freezer. I gave up pumping a long time ago since I really only wanted to so that dh could help me and I could get a break - I ended up being the one giving her the pumped milk and then it just seemed easier to feed from the source. I have enough for when dh and I go out for our date night next week (second date night since lo was born) and since lo is 8 months I'm not worried about rebuilding a stash.
pomegranate / 3895 posts
I've only been pumping for a week and just once a day. I'm off for a year so don't need to build a stash, but would like to have some in case I want to go out for an evening or something (eg. DH'z best friend's wedding next weekend). I am ridiculously proud of the whopping 9 oz that I currently have in my freezer 
persimmon / 1341 posts
I pumped one side every morning and got 5 oz that went straight to the freezer. Only other times I pumped was when my daughter was with a babysitter. I have over 1000 oz after donating 250. I have no desire to cycle through that milk because then I would have to pump. I'm thrilled with my stash because if I dried up tomorrow or my daughter decided to stop nursing I would have enough breastmilk to make it to at least a year. Once she reaches a year old and I know for sure we won't need it I will donate the rest of it.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Wow how do you guys have room in your freezers?! Lol! I have maybe 100 oz and LO is 6 weeks old. I have no idea how long I will pump now that my skin is clearing up! Gotta see how life goes. I know if I stopped at month 3, she could have a bottle a day until month 6.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
@blackbird: DH and I've joked that at some point our freezer will be full of her milk only. It's a joke, but I do worry as we have a small freezer.
clementine / 916 posts
@blackbird: Most of mine is in a huge chest freezer (750 oz.). I also keep about 200 oz. in my grandma's chest freezer, and 100 oz. in my regular fridge/freezer. I decided that I wanted to keep my stash in multiple places just in case the power went out, or a freezer malfunctioned.
grapefruit / 4235 posts
I feel really dumb but I have no clue how much I have. 4 k cup boxes worth...ha.
cantaloupe / 6397 posts
I just started pumping so right now only 3 oz but I am so proud of it! I don't need a huge stash because I'm off for a year. I only need enough for time away from the baby. I'm planning to pump once a day for a while.
honeydew / 7235 posts
Wow - so many of you have an incredible stash!! Nice work! I am totally jealous - I have 10oz left frozen and am barely keeping up with LO pumping at work! Had 2 trips that used up everything frozen but it was still only max 40oz.
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