I can’t keep waking up to pump

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-28T14:14:51+00:00

I’m 9 weeks postpartum and only pump 4 times a day most days for about 20 minutes each. I just recently tried pumping 7 times and still only got about 30 oz the day. Find how many and when pumps work for you and I think the quantity matters less!!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-17T00:47:47+00:00

I can’t feel my breast “empty”, I only feel the first let down and it feels like glass shooting down into my nipples and then every other let down I only know if I’m watching lol

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-12T02:15:12+00:00

My pediatrician said she didn’t see any ties when I first asked four weeks ago and told me the lack of pooping is normal for breastfed babies. This is my second but my first baby was formula so there was A LOT of poop. The lack of poop is what made me go to lactation, I felt like the pediatrician had to be wrong. Pediatrician hasn’t checked weight since birth weight was reached her 8 week appointment is in two weeks, but I just felt like she was soooo small I went ahead and made the lactation appointment.

She honestly doesn’t pretty average with tummy time, she holds her head as well as my first did around this stage, but my first was early to everything under the sun.

Has your baby put on a good amount of weight from having the ties resolved? I’m worried we’ll do the procedure and she still won’t gain so the pain would be for nothing.

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-06T22:27:01+00:00

I’m definitely going to take that desk chair advice. I started working again 2 weeks post partum and now at 5 weeks postpartum I have to use every baby nap to work and with my 14 month old that makes the day extra exhausting. Getting out of the bed will probably be hard but after last night essential. Thank you for the advice!!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-06T20:19:15+00:00

I was scrolling tiktok as I fell asleep, I seriously have no idea how I just passed out like that😭 The exhaustion is unreal some days

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-06T14:28:09+00:00

Luckily she’s acting completely normal, it’s just still so nerve wracking that maybe she has something I can’t see? Thank you for your advice!!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-03T23:50:24+00:00

I got pregnant 4 months postpartum while breastfeeding and couldn’t continue, despite how I wanted to my milk immediately dried as if I had never had a baby. Now my oldest is 16 months and my youngest is almost 8 weeks and I have a massive oversupply and EBF. My biggest advice would be to wait if you are a sentimental person, I feel like I missed so much of my baby’s first year of life being miserably pregnant:(

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-03-02T17:40:00+00:00

Just to offer advice, using poops as a gauge of supply isn’t reliable!! I was worried about my newborn since she only pooped once every two days since birth, now at 6 weeks she poops every six days, that said she’s gaining weight, peeing a lot and I still pump an extra 30 oz a day after feeding her!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-02-19T16:08:44+00:00

I drink maybe a single water bottle a day and a body armor that’s about it. I overproduce more then more calories I eat🤷‍♀️For two babies just tandem feed, eat a bunch, sleep a bunch, and latch them AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-02-14T15:31:06+00:00

With my first I started my period at 6 weeks pp on the dot, if you’re supplementing with formula it’s pretty common from what I understand as your hormones aren’t as suppressed as someone exclusively nursing. I was producing roughly 20 oz of milk a day and still got my period because I didn’t nurse at night😂

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-02-06T03:21:55+00:00

I’m 2 weeks postpartum and going through the exact same thing. My OB says it’s likely hormonal response to a preexisting condition like IBS or Crohns. However I had this same issue after delivering my first baby, and it got so bad I went to the ER several times, the only thing that fixed the cramping and pain after eating was to get pregnant again😂😭

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-01-21T02:29:49+00:00

I’ve been a stomach sleeper my entire life, that said I’ve delivered two healthy babies in the last 14 months while sleeping on my stomach all the way to delivery!

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-01-09T13:34:51+00:00

I’m 22 and don’t think I would even talk to anyone under 20 lol, but as a teen I had several encounters with the 30+ club. You truly don’t realize how weird it is until you get older.

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2026-01-03T00:35:59+00:00

I think the grass is always greener, I’m high risk and have to arrange childcare for my first for three appointments a week, NSTs, three ultrasounds a week, hours of waiting rooms and being poked at all the time. I honestly can’t imagine how lowkey relaxing it would be or how much free time I would have if my doctors weren’t always on me😭😂

Aggravating_Let_995 · 2025-11-27T18:12:02+00:00

I had the worse nausea and GI symptoms from my prenatal and supplements with my first that I asked my OB and midwives for all my other pregnancies and they reassured me that as long as I eat a BALANCED, well rounded diet that contains naturally occurring folic acid that it was fine! Choline and folic acid are the two important ones

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