Ideas for increasing freezer stash

[Kimber]

I'll try to make the explanation short.....

I stayed home with my baby until she was 3 months old and acquired a pretty good freezer stash! Even after I went to work, I still had opportunities to increase the stash. I'm a teacher, and by the end of the school year...the stash was gone! I took my last bag to the sitter on the last day of school. During the last 2-3 our supply-demand got a bit off, I think.

Now that it's summer and LO and I are together all the time, my supply and her demand have evened out perfectly, but I don't see how I can get my freezer stash back up for right when school starts back up. After we get back into the routine of me pumping a couple times during the day while she's at the sitter, it should work out ok, but what about for the first couple weeks?

I feel like if I pumped after she eats, the next time she eats she's frustrated like, "um, where's all the milk?" After LO goes to bed, I wait until right before I go to bed and pump but usually only get like an ounce total--maybe 2! My supply has always been at it's lowest at night--which I've heard it odd.

Sorry so long, but any suggestions to increase the freezer stash? Seems almost impossible to me.

 

[Dream.dream]

Pump an hour after she eats assuming she eats every 2-3 hours ,

It won't take long for the supply to increase that way and she will nurse more but your body is actually very efficient at making milk and a hour or to it will make more . She might nurse more for a day or 2 but it will catch up

 

[Hopeful18]

I find that I get the most milk right after her first night feel. For example, my LO goes to bed between 9 and 10. She will usually sleep until 3 or 4. So by then, my breasts are ready to go and nice and full. I will feed her, lay her back down and then pump for at least 10 minutes. I will usually get at least 3 total ozs if not 4 or 5 ozs.

Good luck!!

 

[Here_we_go]

My breasts are always emptiest at night so I always pump first thing in the morning before DD wakes up. When I first started, she would fuss a bit about the lack of flow but it didn't take long for my body to kick it in gear and up the milk production (not even a week). Here lately she doesn't nurse for the first hour or 2 when she first wakes up so now I get even more than I used to

Good luck