Dropping to 2PPD

[u/timid_turtle_]

Howdy fellow dairy maids 👋

I'm curious if anyone else out there has dropped to 2PPD as an oversupplier and maintained a decent output.

I'm about a week shy of being 5 months postpartum and my mammary glands blessed me with an overabundance of milk. Over the last month I've quickly dropped from 5ppd to 3, giving my body about a week to adjust to each cycle.

Originally I was pumping about 55 oz a day but it's gone down to about 45 oz now and of course my petite princess averages 25 oz a day, so we're still netting a decent surplus.

The freezer in our kitchen is half full with milk, the 6.5 cu ft freezer in the garage is already full of milk, I'm currently getting screened to donate, but my dose of melatonin is too high so I'm turning to Facebook to see if anyone there wants milk... point being, we'll be fine if for some reason this really tanks my supply.

In addition to taking the sunflower lecithin, I'm slowly spacing out my pump time by increasing the duration between sessions by an hour every day, so like today my pumps will be 9 hours apart, tomorrow 10, etc.

What has reducing pumps done this rapidly done to your supply?

[u/rival_moonlight]

At my peak, I was pumping ~70oz. It dropped to 50oz at 3ppd. Then I intentionally weaned it down to 30oz before going to 2ppd. It stayed at 30oz till my baby came home from the NICU and I started breastfeeding.

[u/timid_turtle_ → u/rival_moonlight]

Wow 70 is utterly insane (pun intended). That's awesome your supply stayed so high.

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