So how much should I be freezing?

wow! YOu are doing awsome! When did you start the process? We are in week 2 of pill/dom. From what I have read, your body will do what it needs to when baby is here but I have never breastfed so I wouldnt really know that answer. T

I was making 20-24 ounces when we picked up our 7.5 month old son and I never used a drop of formula and didn't supplement at all after about 3 days.

nurse_reedle, great to know! I actually made 20 yesterday though I seem to make a higher number, then go back down and spend a week or so working back up to that number. So I'm hoping I'll be making 20 regularly soon :) Either way, I'm so excited to know that I might not have to pump at all when baby's here! Yaaaay! It's been useful but I can't wait to send it back to the place from which I rented it :) The reason I asked this, btw, is because good friends of ours are giving us their old deep freezer. I'm excited about being able to freeze fruits and veggies from the farmer's market to use during the winter, but also I'll have far more space for freezing milk and it will last much longer. One of the big reasons I donated was because the milk would go bad and we just didn't have space but now that won't be much of an issue. Of course, I'd rather keep donating to someone in need if I'm not going to be using the milk :) Oh, and bevy, I've been pumping since March. I didn't think our adoption journey would take this long! Some days I look back and I think "I could've been sleeping through the night all this time!" Last week I tried sleeping through the night one time. I didn't used to be able to do that since I'd wake up in pain around 4am anyway, so I just started pumping at 4am every day (which actually ended up being very peaceful "me" time that I have come to enjoy). Anyway, I slept straight through, no pain, then woke up and pumped out 7 oz. I'm going to try that more often I think :) I don't increase in supply if I got for a long time between pumpings, but I can hold steady now and if 18-20oz is okay for a newborn I might just back down to pumping only like 4 times a day or something, so long as I don't decrease in supply that way.

Once I got up there, I could pump 4-5 times a day and keep my supply up...no problems. I am glad you have such a great supply!!

megan, did you do the full "protocol"? or did you just start pumping? I am on week 3 now of the pill/dom and havent noticed any sort of changes like they say should happen. I havent started pumping or anything but shouldnt there be some at least boob swelling? haha

Bevy, Nope, no protocol. I was a little bit too excited and was absolutely certain we'd be placed no later than May (and all the protocol things confused me) so I just started taking Dom and pumping religiously. I only took dom for a day or so before I started pumping too, and my breasts reacted more to the pump than the dom I think. For the first couple months they were veeery swollen, very painful, pumping hurt, anything touching them hurt, and the feeling of making more milk hurt even though I was only making drops. By the time I was making 2 ounces a day, a couple months in, the pain was pretty much gone. At this point there's very little swelling and absolutely no pain unless I get a blocked duct. Also, just have to say what a great husband I have. Not only does this guy carry my 22-lb hospital grade pump up and down the stairs every night so I can watch tv, and not only does he watch P while I pump, and not only does he fetch me things while I'm pumping, and not only does he carefully wash my bottles and flanges, but today he spent time at work looking around and finding a place nearby for me to get new flanges since mine are breaking. I was getting close to crying in frustration as a flange literally broke in half, my others got cracks and started losing suction, and I didn't respond so well to the standard size. I absolutely could not get in contact with anyone about buying new flanges asap and it was driving me nuts! I finally took a small nap and came back downstairs to an IM from my husband telling me exactly where to go to get new flanges. He'd found the closest place for me. I feel like I could cry again, but this time because I'm so happy to be a lucky girl with a great husband :)

I did the same thing before our last adoption, almost 5 years ago. With no match in sight and things hurting beyond belief and with nothing coming from it, I gave up. That is why, this time, I decided to go on the birthcontrol pill and dom. I am glad to hear though that it has worked so well for you. That gives me hope that if I dont have a lot of time on the pill, things may still happen for us :) I think I will start pumping after a few months if we dont have a match in sight. Ideally though, we will be matched yesterday :) ...only wishing of course.