Thought you EPers might find this useful.
A video on maximizing milk production while expressing:
http://newborns.stanford.edu/Breastf...roduction.html

Hey girls, need a little advise. My little guy is 4 and a half months and I have been exclusively pumping for 2 months. I'm wondering if I have to wake up in the middle of the night to pump in order to keep my supply up. I've been setting my alarm every 3 hours but I'm exhausted.

Another question is does anyone ever have any good advice on how to get him back to nursing. In the beginning I nursed and pumped to give him bottles because he was a lazy nurser and wasn't getting enough. He did well with that but about 2 months ago he figured out that the bottle was faster and wanted nothing to do with nursing. Do I have any chance of getting him back to nursing?

i might be wrong but im pretty sure your supply will be well established now, so you can take a 6hr break inbetween pumps, just make sure you express from 1-3am at some point as that is when your 'something hormoney' levels are highest and will help keep your milk up x

Thought maybe someone could offer a suggestion???

I am going to be going back to work in 2 weeks and my DD will be in daycare. I have been pumping to ensure she will continue on EBM through a bottle while I am at work. But I am just introducing a bottle and am afraid I may have waited too long? My DH gave her a bottle for the first time yesterday- and while she didn't refuse it all together, all she would do is play with the nipple in her mouth. She had no desire to suck on the bottle. Is this common? Is there a way to stimulate her to suck on the bottle? My DH tried putting breastmilk on the nipple, and he turned the bottle upside down to get it to drip in her mouth. She would swallow what was there- but had no desire to latch or drink from the bottle. He positioned her sitting semi-upright in her swing to feed- so as not to confuse her with the "typical" cradle feeding position- and we are using Tommee Tippee bottles with the slow flow nipples! After exclusively breastfeeding and worrying about everything that goes along with that- I feel so lost and a bit stressed that my DD be able to eat while I am at work! Please help!

Any ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

can you not buy a breastflow bottle, they are designed specifically to keep the baby feeding as if she was on a boob, my baby has a few bottles a week when im out and she started off with the tommee tippee CTN ones but now only uses the BF ones and took to them with no worries x

i have only been pumping for 5 weeks (my little man is 6 weeks old and can't seem to latch properly) and i don't wake myself up to pump. i just wake when he does, and often that means i go from my last pump at 9.30 - 10pm to 5am when he wakes. i haven't found that it affects my supply at all, but i do wake up pretty full and uncomfortable! i think if my baby didn't wake me my boobs would. it does vary from one person to another, so you may find this doesn't work for you, but exclusive expressing is such hard work, i don't think i could keep it up if i was getting even less sleep. i think if it is going to affect your supply you're likely to notice it the following day, and hopefully if there was a problem you could pump more that day and get your supply back up. i'm sure the odd night off can only be good for you x

I plan to Exclusively pump , THANK YOU for this sticky!!

Well I had my little man 6 days ago and it looks like I'm joining the club of Exclusively Expressing. I have extremely flat nipples and unsuccessfully tried to breastfeed my older children. This time I prepared and bought a pump beforehand. Poor little babe was starving and I couldn't get him to latch despite half hourly attempts for the first few days. I supplemented for a day and a half, till I got a handle on the expressing.

Now he is 6 days old and I'm pumping every time he eats. Is this the best way? Just to pump when he eats so my body will regulate to his appetite? I will do extra pumps if time allows, not much but just to keep ahead of his feeds. Any tips to keep my supply up?

Okay...I'm not even TTCing, but I have questions...someone told me you can use a pump on your nipples 2 weeks before you deliver so when you go to breastfeed you will have your colestrum..is there any truth in that?

you probably can, but there shouldn't be any need - you should get your colostrum anyway. i was producing it at 16 weeks!