In your shoes, I would pump as little as I needed to get relief, and also aim to match supply with what gets drunk, i.e. rotating the frozen supplies rather than growing them.
This is based on my own experience: My son started rejecting my p milk fairly suddenly around 8-9 months, when I was working short days. Once he could eat enough solids to keep him going for my 6-hour absence he drank less and less bottled milk and drank more direct from the source instead. We used some of the frozen milk for babysitters when we had the occasional evenings out, but I ended up having to throw away quite a lot of frozen milk when I finally had to admit it was over 6 months old and wasn't going to be used. I wish I'd stopped pumping sooner.
My body seemed quite good at adapting to different weekday/weekend demand patterns, so I would hope your supply would not be badly affected, as you'd still have demand from your son direct on the non-daycare days.
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Date: 2010-11-08 09:43 pm (UTC)This is based on my own experience: My son started rejecting my p milk fairly suddenly around 8-9 months, when I was working short days. Once he could eat enough solids to keep him going for my 6-hour absence he drank less and less bottled milk and drank more direct from the source instead. We used some of the frozen milk for babysitters when we had the occasional evenings out, but I ended up having to throw away quite a lot of frozen milk when I finally had to admit it was over 6 months old and wasn't going to be used. I wish I'd stopped pumping sooner.
My body seemed quite good at adapting to different weekday/weekend demand patterns, so I would hope your supply would not be badly affected, as you'd still have demand from your son direct on the non-daycare days.