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You are doing great! Keep going as long as you can.

I would plan for about two days worth of milk in the fridge. Once you have that freeze the rest.

That is a great pumping output! I don't EP but @Adira:'s suggestion sounds similar to what I do for rotating through frozen milk for my LO while I work. Once a week she gets frozen and then she gets fresh the other four days. I also freeze whatever excess I won't use every couple of days.

I think JoJo gave you get advice. Just make sure you give him the oldest milk first, fresh or frozen.

If you find yourself in a pinch and need milk like STAT, it only take a couple mins to run a bag under hot water to defrost.

I always kept about 3-4 feedings' worth in the fridge (in separate bottles for easy grab-and-go feeding) and if I pumped and there was already 4 full feedings in there, I'd freeze the first bottles and refrigerate the freshly pumped milk. Does that make sense? So if you have 4-5 bottles (probably more for you since Jack is eating more frequently than my kids did at the time) of 2 oz each, and you pump 10 oz, then you can go ahead and freeze 3 of those 2 oz bottles into a 6 oz bag (I always froze 6 oz at a time to save bags and space), then pour the fresh 10 oz into new bottles (also filling the last bottle in the row up to the 2 oz). That way you'd end up after it all emptying 3 bottles to freeze, but adding 3-4 bottles to the end of the row.

Does that make sense?

It's a lot of bottles to wash..! But I sometimes would take the used bottles and just pop them back in the fridge to pump into for the next session. Or use them to fill with freshly pumped milk. And it's a good system to get into place because pretty soon the bottles will increase in volume, and what will end up happening is you will be freezing just one bottle's worth each time.

I really hope that makes sense...! So complicated!