Working and Pumping--Pumping/Nursing schedule of a working mom with a seven month old baby.

Chrissie gets up at 5 am.  She and her husband Kevin dress and feed the children (Sean and his brother Will, who is 2 1/2) and get them ready for daycare.  Kevin takes them to daycare before he starts his work day.  At 7am, Chrissie is on the train for work.

Pumping Schedule:  She uses a Medela FreeStyle Pump, which she brings with her to work.  She pumps 25 ounces a day, and nurses Sean at bedtime and when he wakes up at night.  There is often some milk left over, which she freezes.  Her first pumping is before she leaves for work.  She gets the most milk then--10 ounces.  She pumps again in the afternoon, before leaving work, and then in the evening after Sean goes to bed.  Each of these pumpings is 5 ounces.  She usually pumps in her office, although she does have a lactation room where she works.  the milk is kept in a cooler pack and brought home in the evening with the pump.

Storage--Milk is stored in freezer bags which are organized into gallon ziploc bags.

Sean drinks a 6 ounce bottle in the morning, and three six ounce bottles at daycare.  He doesn't always take the third bottle.  He nurses twice more--before bed and when he wakes at night.

Sean has never had formula, although Chrissie returned to work when he was three months old.