Working Full-Time & Pumping

First off...good Lord is this hard work.  If you are planning on breastfeeding and/or pumping, be aware that it will take up most of your day. This is just my schedule...please remember that everyone will be different.  I send fresh milk to daycare every day in a 32 oz mason jar.  Whatever I pump today, I send tomorrow. Friday's milk is refrigerated and used on Monday, since I exclusively breastfeed on the weekends.  I use 2 mason jars and swap them out each day.  Here is my daily schedule:

4:15am-Get up and shower before Kaiden wakes up.

4:30am- Breastfeed

6:30am-Give Kaiden a bottle with yesterday's leftover milk and put him down for a nap.

6:45am-Pump (this is normally when I get my most milk 6-8oz).  I pump for 30 minutes each time because I usually get my second letdown around the 20 minute mark.

7:15am-Leave the house.

8:00am- Get to work and set up my "station"

The backpack holds my pump, no-hands pumping bra, extra pump pieces, milk storage bags for freezing if I pump over 16oz that day & markers for the bags.

This is the bag (buy here) where I keep both of the bottles with shields on them..after every use I put them right back into the bag and put them in the refrigerator.  I repeat that until Friday, when I take everything home and wash all of the parts and bottles.

This holds my 32oz mason Jar and my 8 oz Medela bottle. (buy here)

I put a chalkboard label on my mason jar and label it with a chalkboard marker every day.  I put the date and the oz on.  After every pumping session I always keep the fresh milk in the medela bottle and refrigerate it before adding it to my refrigerated mason jar of milk.  

After I'm done pumping, I take these 2 bags to the refrigerator :)

9:00am- Pump (another big pump, I get 5-7 oz)

Noon- Pump (getting around 4-5oz) This is also my lunch break, so I pump for 20-30 minutes and still have time to eat, before getting back to work at 12:30pm :)

I keep track of my ounces on my phone using iDO-notepad app.

3:00pm- Pump

5:00pm- Leave work and go pick up Kaiden from daycare.

5:45pm- Get home and wash the mason jar that was used today and get it ready and labeled for tomorrow.

6:45pm-Give Kaiden a bath...yes. Every single night we do this, because of his eczema.

7:00-7:15pm- Nurse him to sleep.

9:00pm-Last pump of the day. (Only sometimes...)

Kaiden is 3 months old now and normally wakes up once during the middle of the night and I will nurse him back to sleep. 

*I drink three 32 oz containers of water per day and also try to remember to take 2capsules of fenugreek 3 times per day.  I snack a lot too, to make sure I'm getting enough calories.