Jimsalad,
If you always think you do not have enough milk, you will be not have
enough milk finally. Actually, the principle is supply = demand, the more
you feed, the more you pump, the more milks come.
agree with you that sometimes we will forfeit our private time especially
for the first year of the baby. After I returned work from my maternity
leave, I only have lunch at the office quickly, and then rushed into the
toilet for pumping, which I cannot have lunch time with my colleagues until now. However, if you consider the healthy, development of your
baby, nothing is important than it.
Also, breastfeeding is not lonely, not only you and your baby, or you and your pump. You can create different kind of funs, like our monthly
gathering, we will breastfeed , chat and share together in the meantime,
we use baby sling, nursing clothes, scarf, so nobody will aware we are
breastfeeding in the public, of course our husbands are welcome to
join us, and they will find the funs there.
Lastly, I would suggest you increase the pumping, you can try to pump
one side and feed another side, so you can save more milk, time;
if you feed your baby at midnight, suggest you :
1) for example: feed him the left side at 3:00am
2) feed him again for your left side again and pump right side,
after pumping, feed him the right side again, he must get enough milk.
Don’t forget to pump at Sat and Sunday, you will have more milk in the morning, so you can also pump one side and feed another side in the
Morning on holiday.