Re: Supplementing with whole milk at 10+ months?

Originally Posted by
@llli*luckypixie
Once again, thank you all ladies for sharing your experiences and opinions. It looks like my main misconception was that in order to wrap up pumping soon after LO's first birthday I have to gradually pump less and less. But from what you are telling me it seems that I would be able to stop pumping pretty quickly once she is one, so for now I'll go down to 3 nursing sessions at work (since 4 are just driving me nuts) and see how it goes.
Thank you all again!
Wow, that is a lot of pumping and you have done a great job by keeping that up this long! By 10 months I think I was down to 2 sessions per day. BUT I supplemented with formula until she was one (and had been supplementing with formula all along). Then at about 12.5 mos I stopped pumping cold-turkey.
Shelly is right, a lot of mamas hit a supply wall right around 9-10 mos and have trouble keeping up pump production so keep that in mind as well in your decision-making process.
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