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If you are a full time career woman and wish to continue breastfeeding when you return to work, it can be quite a challenge. The key ingredients to successfully maintaining total breastfeeding when you return to work are determination, planning, and support from family and friends. Without these, it is easy to become discouraged and to give up soon after returning to work. Read on to find out how to manage a full time job and a new baby at the same time. | If you are a full time career woman and wish to continue breastfeeding when you return to work, it can be quite a challenge. The key ingredients to successfully maintaining total breastfeeding when you return to work are determination, planning, and support from family and friends. Without these, it is easy to become discouraged and to give up soon after returning to work. Read on to find out how to manage a full time job and a new baby at the same time. | ||
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# Prepare yourself. Before returning to work, you need to plan ahead and prepare early. This means building up a stockpile of expressed breast milk (EBM) and establishing the infrastructure for successfully expressing breast milk at work. If you invest the time and effort to get this done first, it will be less challenging once you are back at work. Build up a stockpile of EBM while still on maternity leave. This is achieved by expressing extra~milk in between feeds and freezing them for later use. The stockpile serves the purpose of providing you with a buffer that will help minimize the stress from adjustments in the early weeks when you return to work. | # Prepare yourself. Before returning to work, you need to plan ahead and prepare early. This means building up a stockpile of expressed breast milk (EBM) and establishing the infrastructure for successfully expressing breast milk at work. If you invest the time and effort to get this done first, it will be less challenging once you are back at work. Build up a stockpile of EBM while still on maternity leave. This is achieved by expressing extra~milk in between feeds and freezing them for later use. The stockpile serves the purpose of providing you with a buffer that will help minimize the stress from adjustments in the early weeks when you return to work. | ||
