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Your wee girl is about four weeks now? If so, It's at this point in time that your supply goes from being regulated by your hormones to being regulated by baby's demand so your engorgement should start to decrease and your breasts will start to feel softer. The engorgement and oversupply many mothers experience in the beginning is just nature's way of ensuring baby gets plenty of milk while still learning how to nurse.

Providing Baby is still having plenty of wet and dirty diapers and is happy and gaining weight then you still have plenty of milk! Aiming for between eight and ten nursing / pumping sessions in 24 hours will also ensure you establish good supply.

And you don't need to worry about being empty after pumping, you'll still be producing enough milk, it's just that Baby will have to work a bit harder for it!

@mrskc: and everything you said too!

What everybody else said. Also, this article was so helpful in alleviating my fears about my pumping output while nursing full time.

http://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/pumping_decrease

Exactly what everyone else said. Your breasts are never empty--they're always producing milk. SO don't worry about not having enough for her! And it's TOTALLY normal to get very little from a pump right after a nursing session (and doesn't mean that your baby wasn't getting anything). I would only worry about pumping the side she doesn't nurse from if you want to have enough for a bottle or something--don't worry about your supply until you have reason to (there's plenty of other things to worry about!).

To add another link, this was really helpful in making me feel better about my supposedly low supply: http://theleakyboob.com/2011/10/help-my-milk-supply-is-low-or-is-it/

Everyone else is giving good advice! I'd caution against too much pumping at a time that LO doesn't want to eat because you're just going to cue your body to make more milk at that time, and as LO sleeps more you'll want to sleep more too and not keep waking up to pump!