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I started building my stash by double-pumping roughly an hour after feeding Xander (that's an hour after the START of him nursing, which sometimes took up to an hour)! But Xander also usually fed off both sides, so I'm not positive if you should do something different if your LO only eats from one side normally.

ETA: I should add, I only pumped during the day. He clusterfed in the evenings and when I would pump after he ate, I didn't have enough milk for his next feed and he would be super fussy, so I didn't pump in the evenings.

For about the first 8 months or so I would nurse her on one side in the morning and pump the other side. Helped me to build a very decent freezer stash.

I always pumped in the morning before she woke up to get the most. After 3 month mark it was hard to beat her waking up. Pumping right after will give you more fatty milk but less volume.....milk many months down the line will be more nutritious than earlier milk, but breastmilk is breastmilk and it's not worth worrying about too much, especially if it's such a short stint you're planning for.

I would recommend a stash of a week's worth in case you ever get sick and need to take antibiotics that require pumping and dumping