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I think when I dropped to one pump, I did it around noon. So it was nurse at 6am, pump at 12pm, nurse at 6pm. But DD was 13 months by that point.

@desertdreams88 DS will be 12 months next week. I just dropped to 1 pump at work, around 10:30am give or take. My milk production is WAY higher in the morning so by that point I am pretty engorged. I've always had an oversupply though. I still pump a lot at that 1 pump session. Usually nurse him when I get home around 4:30. I am sometimes having to supplement with frozen milk because although I pump a lot at the 1 pump session, it's frequently not quite enough (and thankfully I have a freezer stash).

This has been fine for us because at this point, I don't really care if my supply goes down a little. I would love to stop pumping altogether at work but I still make way too much milk for that!

@DesertDreams88: I exclusively pump so that may or may not be that helpful for you but when I went down to a single pump at work my schedule was pump at 6:30, 1:30/2:00 and 8:00. im down to just pumping morning and night (but my LO just turned one).

When I went to one pump session at my old job I did late morning/lunchtime. IDK what I will do with a teacher schedule when I go back to work.

I only pump once at work right now. I nurse when the baby wakes up, between 6 and 7. I pump around 12:30. I nurse when I get home from work at 6:30, and again at 8:30. I was a little engorged a little the first day I pumped once, but I am not particularly prone to engorgement or leaking. I pump enough for one bottle, and the baby gets two bottles during that day. My freezer stash should be big enough to cover the difference until a year. My work schedule is very flexible, and I pump while working in my own office. If I don't get enough at my one session, I pump again at 3:30. If I could not do this, I would make sure to pump twice the next day to prevent my supply from going down too much.

When I dropped to 1 at work, I did it at 12:30pm. I Epd, but I pumped at 7am, 12:30 pm, 5 pm, and 9:30 pm.

Eventually, I went to 7am, 12:30 pm, 8 pm.

Then 7 am, 7 pm.

And then just 7pm. And now this week I am pumping less time at that once a day with the aim of being totally done in the next few days.