How many times a day do you pump? How many of those pumps are at work? I'm a teacher and I pump twice a day - once while I eat breakfast and once during my lunch period. I don't have any other time to pump while at work. I can't give up my prep period when I'm already giving up my lunch period everyday!
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4x a day- 3 at work. Usually 930, noon, and 330, but the morning and afternoon ones I can only pump for about 15 mins. I have to pump in the morning before I leave or I won't get enough for the day. I usually get 5-6oz in the morning, and a total of 7 or 8oz during the work pumps. How much are you getting? I feel like I'm not getting nearly enough
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2x/day at work. once at 10:45am, another at 2:45pm. i also pump before i go into work in the mornings.
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I'm a teacher, too. I only pump once while at work. I pump right before I leave the house and once during my lunch. Like you, I just can't give up my planning.
My pump schedule is usually 7:45, 12:30, 5:30 (if he had. a bottle before I picked him up), once before bed, and once in the middle of the night. I usually get about 4 oz a session.
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I pump 3x/day, but only 2x at work. I pump at 6:00, right after nursing Xander and before I leave for work. And then at work, I pump at 11:00 and 3:30. Although if I didn't get 15oz for the day, then I'll pump at 7:00 p.m. as well.
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it depends--for a while i was pumping 2x at work (and once in the evenings right before bed). lately i've added another pumping session at work to try and boost my supply, but that's only possible because the summer has been a little slow.
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I tend to pump twice at work only, once around 9.30 (before court starts around 10) and then during lunch (1). I get a decent amount (for me) and my baby nurses before work, after then before bed.
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I only pump at work. I pump 3 times, 9, 12, and 3. I avoid it like the plague on the weekends.
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2x at work, noon and 4. I also pump first thing in the morning and eight before I go to bed at night
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4x a day, 3 at work - 9:15, 12:15, and 3:15. The 4th one is first thing in the morning, at home - I pump one side and nurse D on the other.
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I feel like an anomaly reading this thread, but I pump 5x a day. Three times at work, and then one side in the morning while she nurses the other, and then once before I go to bed (about 1.5 hrs after she goes down). This is only my third week back to work but it seems to be the only routine that produces the 12 ounces I need for her a day.
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3 times a day and sometimes now (almost 11 months) just two... starting to taper off!
But in general my schedule is 9ish, 12ish and 3ish. If only twice, I do 10ish and 2ish... my work schedule is 7:30 to 4 p.m If I were a on a typical teacher schedule I'd do just two.
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@Revel: that's what I was doing when I first went back to work. I'm down to 4x a day now, but she's 9.5 months old. How old is your LO?
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3x/day all at work but will be starting to cut back because DS turns 1 today and my goal was to only pump until he was at 1 although we'll continue nursing morning/bedtime longer.
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@DillonLion: She's just 14 weeks. Honestly the pumps at home don't bother me too much, it's the 3x a day at work that seems brutal. But it is important to me. We're also still just figuring out her intake because this is only the start of my third week back to work. She takes 12 oz all the time at daycare (3x a week), but sometimes only 9 or 10 when she's with the grandmas the other two days.
Kudos to you for sticking with that schedule through 9.5 months!
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When I first went back to work, three times a day, all at work. At nine months, I went to twice a day at work, and around eleven months, once a day.
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3 times at work on a good day. Twice if I get stuck in meetings. I try to pump once at home but she's usually attached to me in the evenings. I also try to pump on weekends.
8ish 10ish and 3ish are my times.
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When I first went back, four times at work, five total for the day. I'm a teacher too, and in order to pump the 40 ounces a day I had to get, I had to give up my planning. It sucks, but I would just get stuff done at my desk during that time.
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I start tomorrow..I think I will pump 3x at work and 1-3 times at home/car.
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When I was pumping I needed to pump 5x a day to keep my supply up. Once while getting ready for work, 3x at work, and once after he went to bed. I was never able to drop a session and provide enough milk for him. I kept up that schedule from the time I went back at 8 weeks until he transitioned to cow's milk at a year.
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@meganmp: I'm in the library so I can't sit at my desk out in the open and pump. I wish I could get work done while I pump
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i pump at least twice, sometimes 3x/day at work. I try to cart my laptop and phone downstairs so i can get some work done.
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Teacher too and I pump twice. Breakfast and lunch, like you. I feed him at pick up at 4. I pump about 10-12 ounces during that time.
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2 times a day, ZERO at work! Right before I started working I transitioned from 3X to 2X.. I really enjoy not having to stress about pumping during the day.. It makes everything so much more manageable!
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2x a day at work (2 or 3 days a week, i wfh the rest and nurse).
usually at 11 and 3.
I was pumping 3x until 7 or 8 months pp. and dropped 1 session as we upped Ds' solids and his intake decrease a bit.
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@swedishfish: That seriously stinks that you can't have a more private place to pump
I'm a teacher, too. In the beginning I was pumping at my lunch (it's early 10:40), part of my planning period (12:30), after school (3:30), and at night (8:00). I dropped the last session pretty quickly, because I hated it.
Now that he eats less frequently with me I pump during my drive into work, during my lunch OR plan time, and on my way home.
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