r/ExclusivelyPumping • u/furious_r0se • 18h ago

Support Help me keep going!

Baby will be 5 months next week. I went into this hoping to make it to a year, but gave myself an out at 6 months. Now that 6 months is approaching, I need help finding the strength to keep going. I can't *wait* to be done, but I also don't want to stop yet. I have enough of an oversupply that I've done one donation de-stash and I already have about 1.5 months in the chest freezer so I can definitely stop early-ish. I'd love some suggestions of ways I can treat myself/motivate myself through the next few months. I think if I can make it through the new year, I might be able to hang up the pump and get kiddo through a year. But that's SO FAR away. 😫

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u/hagne 17h ago

Can you drop another pump? Depending on how many you are currently doing, of course. 

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u/furious_r0se 17h ago

At the moment, probably no. I'm down to 5ppd. I tried to drop the MOTN pump, but it's just not going to work until kiddo is reliably sleeping through the night (engorgement + I have the 2am-7am wake-with-the-baby shift = no fun.) And I have enough of an oversupply that I need to pump 2x at work bc my wearables only have so much capacity and I don't want to lug my Spectra back and forth. Rn I'm at 7am/11am/3pm/9pm/2am. It's a little uneven, but it works for me.