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Pumping at Work

How Much Is Enough?

By Jessica Woods

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Pumping at Work-How Much Is Enough?

I was blessed with an abundant milk supply. Bending over to shave my legs in the shower, milk would practically pour out of my breasts. I was able to spray breast milk across the room with frightening accuracy and intensity. But when I returned to work and tried to pump during the day, I was lucky if I got 2 ounces.

For the mother who is returning to work outside of the home and planning to continue breastfeeding, the rewards are great – and so are the concerns. Perhaps you've practiced pumping at home – maybe you even have a few ounces stashed in the freezer already. Your little one has taken a bottle of breast milk from someone other than you. You have scoped out a place at work that will allow privacy and an electrical outlet for your pumping sessions, and yet one thought lingers in the shadows, "I hope I can pump enough milk!"

Carrie Mesa, a Los Gatos, Calif., mother to a 2-year-old son, is fortunate to work at a family-friendly company. With on-site childcare and "mother's rooms" in every building, she was dedicated to nursing her son when she returned to work.

Mesa would pump once in the morning, nurse her son at lunch and then pump in the afternoon. Even so, she was concerned about pumping enough to provide her son with the milk he needed for the next day's bottles.

Julie Appler, a mother in Cupertino, Calif., faced an issue common to moms who pump at work – a stubborn letdown. "I definitely had a harder time getting a letdown at work than I did at home," she says. "I was pumping less and less and was concerned I wouldn't be able to pump enough."


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