Maternity Leave: Myself, Playtex

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Returning to Work and Pumping

Hi everyone - I am returning to work in May and my son will be going to day care. I have a Medela Pump in Style and plan to pump at work but was wondering if those who successfully pumped at work and continued to breastfeed through the first year have any advice for me. How often did you pump during the day? Did you have enough milk? How many bottles/day did you leave and with how much milk? My son still nurses 10 times a day, but never takes more than 3 ounces from a bottle - we did just start cereal though, so that might change....

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Breastfeeding, Can't Pump, Going Back to Work

My son will be just over 9 months when I go back to work next month. I exclusively breast fed until he was 6 months and then began introducing solids. He is great with the solids, but has trouble taking a bottle. Part of the problem is that I've never been able to pump sufficiently: in an hour, I get maybe one ounce out of both breasts. I don't know exactly what the problem is, whether the pump (it's a hand-me-down), or my milk production, or what. I think he will take a bottle if it has breast milk in it--it's when we've tried formula...

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