Hello, I have been sticking to the 8x a day (get 3 20 minute breaks at work now to do it which feels pointless) the longest stretch I have is between my 1am pump and 6am one. I have a Medela in style pump for home but a single electric pump for work (and a manual pump in case I ever forget to charge it). At home I've been playing with my pumping time thinking I wasn't doing it long enough so I was doing 40 minutes each time but since I'm getting discouraged I've just been doing 20-30 and at work I only get 20 minutes anyways so with my single electric pump I'm only doing 10 minutes per breast when I'm there. At least at home I can pump longer if I want to but a few weeks ago when everything was normal I could get everything I needed in a 20 minute timeframe, so pumping for a long time (I.e for an hour) seems pointless because all I'll end up with is sore nipples and no milk. What's even more annoying is that first week all I needed was low suction and it'd spray out beautifully when the milk let down...now it doesn't matter what I set it at the milk won't do that, not sure how to explain it but it just bubbles at the nipples and eventually will turn into a drop that falls into my flange but never actually comes out. I know there's milk in there, I haven't dried up or anything...it's just a matter of getting it to come out of there
Can you give more info? What is your pumping schedule like? How long do you pump for? What pump do you use?
Hello, I have been sticking to the 8x a day (get 3 20 minute breaks at work now to do it which feels pointless) the longest stretch I have is between my 1am pump and 6am one. I have a Medela in style pump for home but a single electric pump for work (and a manual pump in case I ever forget to charge it). At home I've been playing with my pumping time thinking I wasn't doing it long enough so I was doing 40 minutes each time but since I'm getting discouraged I've just been doing 20-30 and at work I only get 20 minutes anyways so with my single electric pump I'm only doing 10 minutes per breast when I'm there. At least at home I can pump longer if I want to but a few weeks ago when everything was normal I could get everything I needed in a 20 minute timeframe, so pumping for a long time (I.e for an hour) seems pointless because all I'll end up with is sore nipples and no milk. What's even more annoying is that first week all I needed was low suction and it'd spray out beautifully when the milk let down...now it doesn't matter what I set it at the milk won't do that, not sure how to explain it but it just bubbles at the nipples and eventually will turn into a drop that falls into my flange but never actually comes out. I know there's milk in there, I haven't dried up or anything...it's just a matter of getting it to come out of there