Today’s question deals with waiting for your supply to regulate and dealing with engorgement when exclusively pumping for a newborn. This post may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click through and make a purchase, I’ll be compensated at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I love! More info here. I’ve had a really tough… View Post
Milk Supply After Getting Your Period Back – Can You Bring It Up?
Three questions today – milk supply after getting your period back, feeding an older baby milk pumped when she was much younger, and talking to your doctor about exclusively pumping. This post may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click through and make a purchase, I’ll be compensated at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I… View Post
What Should I Do When My Bottles Overflow When I Pump?
I have a few questions today – how to manage switching bottles when pumping if your bottles overflow, and how to get into an exclusive pumping routine. This post may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click through and make a purchase, I’ll be compensated at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I love! More… View Post
Making the Breast Pump “Not Suck”
The joke is that pumping “sucks,” right? Both literally and figuratively? Last weekend, I ran across this article about a project (a “hackathon,” actually) intended to vastly improve the breast pump (and make it only suck literally): The goals for the hackathon were to educate ourselves and our colleagues about the mechanics of breast pumping, discuss design challenges posed by current technologies… View Post
Am I Pumping Too Much? Concerns About Engorgement and Other Issues
Today’s question is about engorgement and whether or not pumping too much can be a problem, particularly for exclusive pumpers. This post may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click through and make a purchase, I’ll be compensated at no additional cost to you. I only recommend products I love! More info here. My daughter had complications after birth and… View Post
Exclusive Pumping Output Case Study
My friend Nico, who was immeasurably helpful to me when I was trying to get and stay pregnant with my babies, exclusively pumped for her third son. She kept track of all of her output in an app, and was awesome enough to download the data so that I could play with it. I thought that I’d present the results… View Post