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? for the BF (and pumping) moms

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how do you manage to go without pumping overnight? (and did it screw up your supply when you stopped?) I'd love to have that extra 1/2 hour of sleep, but if I forget to set my alarm, i wake up maybe an hour later than normal, engorged, in a lot of pain, laying in a puddle of milk.
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  • hmonkeyhmonkey member
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    edited December 2011

    as baby mo slept through the night, so did i, and my body adjusted.  i do not have supply issues.

    i make sure to pump before i go to sleep, no matter what.  i skipped pumping a few weeks ago and woke up howling in pain at 2am.

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  • *Barbie**Barbie* member
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    edited December 2011
    i pump right before going to bed and about an hour after i wake up - but if i don't get up on my own at 2/2:30, i'll wake up at 3:30-4 in pain, pump, and then not be able to fall back asleep.

    i get as much overnight as i do during the day - maybe this is one of the reasons i have managed to build such a big supply.
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  • mrsconn23mrsconn23 member
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    edited December 2011
    Since I've pumped from day 1 (well day 2), I've just always gone 5-6 hours overnight w/o pumping.  I usually pump between 10:30 and 11 and then wake up with DH around 4am and pump then.
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  • thatgrrrrlthatgrrrrl member
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    edited December 2011
    I wake up full and a little achy in the morning, but nothing horrible. But I've been having supply issues from the start. Hence me getting a hospital grade pump for a while.
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  • GBCKGBCK member
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    edited December 2011
    I've had to do it gradually...move the clock back 15 minutes at a time.  Otherwise I had the same 'ow, halp, I'm drowning in milk and my boobs exploded in pain" problems you talk of.

    I really have found that, as time passes, I adjust and that I just produce more at each pumping.  I'm now basically doing overnights w/o a problem but it took like a month + to adjust to that.
    I'd say adjust ALL your times--not just one.

    Basically whatever time I can go between feedings during the AM, I can go that amt of time + 1 hour at night.  So when I switched from every 3 hours at work to every 4-5, I also went from every 4 hours at night to every 5-6.  ANd gradually added 15 minutes over and over and over again to there (so my body is now 'trained' to not produce as much at night)
    (why do I think I'm still saying that poorly?  it makes sense in my head but not as I type0
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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    It's supply and demand.  If you keep pumping your body will keep producing.  Don't go cold turkey, but start increasing the time between. 
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