Expressing Milk Management

Now, it’s time for you going back to work, leaving your baby at home. You can delegate the baby nursing task to other people, but there’s one important task you can not delegate to anybody, including your husband. Yes, it’s breastfeeding.
Luckily, many baby product manufacturers have already invented breast pump which can help working mother providing breast milk while she left her baby for working. However, a best breast pump will not provide an optimum amount of breast milk without a good time management of expressing milk.
In this post, I will share my experience on managing a time schedule for expressing breast milk in order to fulfill my baby’s requirement on breast milk. For your information, I’ve to leave home from 6 am to 4.30 pm on Monday till Saturday.

Time                            Activity
5.45 am -6 am             Breastfeed my baby before going to office
11.30 am – 12 am        1^st milk pumping, achieve approximately 200 cc
12 am – 1.30 pm         Lunch
3 pm                            End of my working hour
3 pm – 3.30 pm           2^nd milk pumping, achieve approximately 100 cc
4.30 pm – 8 pm           arrive at home, nurse the baby directly from the breast
8 pm                            my baby sleeps, I usually go to sleep too

11 pm – 11.30 pm       3rd milk pumping, achieve approximately 100 cc

11.30 pm – 4 am         go to sleep again, nurse the baby from one breast only

4 am – 4.30 am            4th milk pumping from the other breast, get minimum 100 cc

Expressed breast milk, Don't forget to give labels ^-^

By conducting this kind of arrangement, I can provide minimum 500 cc breast milk a day. Usually, I divided into 5 milk bottles (@ 100 cc).  It was indeed not as much as I saw on the TV when a mother can save hundreds bottles of breast milk to supply her twins requirement of breast milk while she left home for days. She showed us her freezer which was full with expressed milk.
However, I always be thankful that my expressed milk is sufficient to fulfill my baby’s requirement on breast milk, so he can have breast milk exclusively for 6 months and continued until he was 20 months old.
Well, that’s my story, how about yours?
Enjoy your breastfeeding!