Help me prepare to go back to work (pumping)

[mamacassafrass]

OK. I will be returning to work (full time) in one week on Oct 4 as a fifth grade teacher. My daughter will be 10 weeks and attending daycare about 8 hrs. As of now I have NO breastmilk stash because of excess lipase and oversupply/ejection issues. I have no interest in using formula AT. ALL.

If I scald the milk first (this coming week, because I wont be able to do it at work), how much frozen milk should I supply for backup?

How much day old refrigerated milk should I supply (mine only lasts a day or so in fridge before soap smell)

Do I bring the milk already in the bottle?

I plan on providing the days milk from what I pumped at work the day before, but want a little back up in case she needs more, spills, or I my BF forgets to drop it off with her. Also I guess I will need to pump Sunday for Monday's supply, which will not be great for my overejection issues!

Thanks for your help!

[kanga1622]

This website has a lot of great information.

I found that I needed to provide as many bottles as times that DS would nurse (so if he nursed about 4 times a day normally, I would send 4 bottles). I used the general rule of about 1 ounce per hour and split that between the bottles. The first week I always sent an extra bottle each day just as a back-up.

It turned out that DS thinks he needs a bottle more often at daycare than he does with DH or nursing with me. He sees the other kids with bottles and decides he needs one too.

For us that means when DS is away from me from 7:15-5, he takes 4 bottles of 3-3.5 ounces each. He took pretty much 3 ounce bottles until he was about 5 months and then we moved him to 3.5 ounce bottles and he seemed to like that better. We have two full bottles worth of frozen milk with our DCP in case he's extra hungry or one gets dropped or she thaws one and it was a leaky bag.

We asked our care provider how she wanted bottles and she preferred them to already be in the bottle and ready to feed so that DS didn't have to wait for her to prep them. We also purchased these labels to put on the bottles so they were marked for DS and didn't get mixed up with another baby using the same bottles.

ETA: You don't need to pump all on Monday's milk on Sunday - you should have all the milk you pumped on Friday available for scalding when you get home and then freezing (could then be used on Monday).

[Anna Phor]

I don't know have the lipase issues, so I can't speak to that, but wrt pumping Sunday--I pump Friday for the freezer, write the date/amount on the baggie, and then Monday morning I withdraw from the earliest part of my stash. That way I'm always refreshing the freezer stash. That way I don't have to use my precious weekend time pumping and washing pump parts.

[mamacassafrass]

I thought the milk needs to be scalded right away. I take dd #1 to gymnastics for 3 hrs fridays directly after work/ schoolwithout coming home. I will put expressed milk in cooler with ice pack but will it be too late for scalding 10 hrs later?

[bella99]

Will the baby not drink the high lipase milk? I went through a period (it didn't last) of high lipase, but my daughter didn't care and happily drank the soapy milk. If so, don't worry about the scalding.

I always pumped on the weekends, but only once, between the time that she went to bed and I went to bed.

[staceychev]

I can't comment on the scalding (which I assume is part of the high lipase thing?), but I'm a teacher and my 6 month old is in daycare from no earlier than 7:15 to no later than 4 pm. She takes two 4 ounce bottles on a not-so-hungry day and three 4 ounce bottles on a hungry day.