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Sudden oversupply on holiday
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Looking to check what others would do. In the last week or so I have gone from being a bottle or two ahead of my baby to 1.5L in the fridge with a baby full of milk.

This would be great if not for two factors:

  1. I'm away from home for another 4 days and I have brought limited storage with me. I can't freeze milk because I couldn't transport it home safely.

  2. My baby has thrush and I was recommended not to freeze milk from this period until we are both clear for a week. Because of this he hasn't latched in 4 days but we are not a week clear yet so even if I could freeze it and keep it frozen, I couldn't feed it later.

I have two milk bottles of 1L each that I had been alternating days but todays bottle is now full and yesterdays is still half full, even after just bottling and feeding a few pumps straight away.

I have 7x 260mL bottles with me, all currently empty (more at home so I don't want to buy more).

I'm thinking about putting yesterdays milk into bottles to feed to free up the second "pitcher". I am also trying to pump less often for a bit less time to reduce the amount being produced at least until I get home. I have wanted an oversupply since I started pumping for my second baby (2nd EP baby too) but the timing couldn't be worse. I had been so consistent in supply prior to this, I didn't plan for any increase.

8wpp and baby just had his imms so has been feeding a little more than usual through the developmental leap and feeling a bit poorly but nowhere near keeping up with what my body is suddenly producing.

Advice or ideas would be very much appreciated!

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