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Here's my schedule!

5:00 a.m. - wake up and wake Xander to eat (if he hasn't woken up already) - then he goes back to bed
5:30 - get ready for work
6:00 - pump at home
6:30 - finish getting ready for work, Hubs gets up
6:50 - leave for work
7:00 - Hubs gets Xander up and ready for daycare, handles drop-off
7:30 - arrive at work!
11:00 - pump #1
12:00 p.m. - lunch at my desk
3:30 - pump #2
4:30 - leave work to pick up Xander
6:00 - nurse!
7:00 - Xander's bedtime
9:00 - wake Xander to eat, back to bed
10:00 - bedtime for me!

Since you have an hour for lunch, I'd break that up throughout the day to pump and maybe eat at desk or eat while pumping if possible. Xander eats 3 times at daycare (9:00, 12:00, 3:00), so I try to pump 3 times, but one of those times is at home before I go to work.

If you don't mind doing it, I'd wake her to feed her before you go, and try to fit in 3 pumping sessions into your day, whether they're all at work or some at home, etc. I try not to pump too late so I can nurse Xander after I pick him up. If he gets a bottle late at daycare though (like 4:30/5:00), I'll pump when I get home.

@JoJoGirl: do you make the hours for appointments?

I would def try to schedule your appointments so you get a morning and afternoon session in.

I have the same hours. She wakes up anywhere between 430-630 to eat. This morning she woke at 445, I nursed her, she went back to sleep till I had to wake her up. Since it was less then 3 hours, I didn't nurse again before we left. If she had woken up at 330 to eat, then I would have nursed her again before we left. So today she will go through all 4 bottles that I sent, since she eats 3 every hours.

Then I pump at 9, 12, and 3 every day. I just don't take a lunch break. Other then running to the cafeteria downstairs to grab something, if I don't bring anything. It sucks not having a break, but I figure I do take HB breaks during the day. I pick her up around 440/445. Today, she will have her last bottle at 4 (I called and checked) so I won't nurse again till 630, when we start bedtime. Some days she is due at 530 for a bottle, so she nurses as soon as we get home, I just don't nurse her as long, more of a snack. Since bed time is at 630 and I always nurse before putting her down.

I don't pump at night. I found that I would only get 2-3 ozs and I hate pumping so I just don't do it. Some nights I should cause by the end of the week, I usually can't get the 20ozs that she needs if she goes through all 4 bottles, which she is doing more and more lately.

@JoJoGirl: Well, maybe she'll be awesome and start doing a longer stretch for you so she's hungry at 4:45. Although you could always just feed her first thing when you get up. Or if she eats at 3:00, I guess just leave it at that and maybe pump instead of nurse. If she's going to go through 4 bottles at daycare though, you'll want to try to pump 4 times I think, just to keep your supply up. So maybe you can pump at home and then 3 times at work? Or you could always pump before you go to bed or something.

@JoJoGirl: I get up at 4:30! I forgot to put that in my schedule, but my day actually starts like this:

4:30 a.m. - get up and shower
5:00 - wake up Xander to eat...

It's hard, but to me, it's worth it. I especially love my 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. nursing sessions with Xander - he's so snuggly when he's sleepy and I love being able to provide breastmilk for him. But it IS hard and it IS a sacrifice, so it's totally up to you! Maybe you can try it for a few days and if it totally sucks, wean?

@JoJoGirl: Also, I only pump twice at work because of time constraints. But I pump in the morning before I leave, so I get my three pumping sessions in. But maybe you could get away with just 2! If you feed her at 3:00, maybe you could pump again at 8:00 and then 1:00 and then nurse as soon as you get home? Or pump when you get home?

@JoJoGirl: Also, my pump sessions are pretty spaced apart too. 6:00 to 11:00 is 5 hours, and then 11:00 to 3:30 is 4.5. So I think it would be doable if you did 7:30, 12:30, 4:30 or something like that. Or 7:30 and 12:30/1:00 and then nurse as soon as you get home. And then maybe pump in the evening.

Can you pump in the car on your commute? No idea if you use public transportation or not.

No other advice, just cheering you on from the sidelines, one working mom to another!

@JoJoGirl: Well, I do 5 hours and it's worked out okay for me! That first pump session at work, I usually get more than I do at other times! I think as long as you can pump long enough to empty the boob (and do a little hand expression after, just to be on the safe side), your body will adjust and know you still need all that milk. I haven't noticed a decrease in my supply since I started back at work and have spaced out my pumping, so I would think you'd be okay!

@JoJoGirl: in that case, I would totally pump during those 30 minutes you have. You could pump when you first get to work, pump mid morning during one of those 30 min note times, pump at lunch if needed and pump one more time during an afternoon 30 minute window. And definitely a mini fridge in your office would save you a lot of time.

@JoJoGirl: Honestly - the pumping/breastfeeding part of parenthood was the biggest challenge for me - it was so hard and so stressful and for a while I felt like I was failing at both; I was pumping three times and I'd just get going with a client/project and have to be interrupted to go pump and then there were days I wasn't pumping enough and felt like a terrible excuse for a mother because of it.
If I could do it again, I'd tell myself to relax and you can only do so much. Sometimes the best pumps for me were in the car. (I work less than a mile from my house but traffic lights and a nursing covered worked out okay, lol). I bought multiple parts so that I didn't have to worry about cleaning them out each time. I got it in whenever I could.