Pumping

My 2nd baby is 5 weeks old today! 🥳 She has been combo fed from the start but now I am considering pumping and giving her breast milk like that. Can anyone help and/or suggest the best way to not loose supply and how often I should pump? My 1st baby was breast fed for the first 5 months and then combo fed but I was not pumping then so a bit confused! Thank you in advance xx

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I would recommend pumping every 3 hours to maintain supply and throughout the night. I go 4 hours in the night as sleep is important in maintaining supply too xx

With my first at 6 weeks I started exclusively pumping. I pumped every 3 hours from 9am - 9pm then one pump at 3am x

Every three hours is a good start but essentially you want to pump every time baby feeds - in your case if you want to use formula bottles and then expressed bottles maybe just pump every time you give formula? I'm combi feeding and tbh only pump 3 times a day realistically and one of those is in the middle of the night and supposedly this is the most important for your supply!

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