Not on the immediate topic, but once this mom goes back to work, if she can 
express even a little bit during the day that will help a lot with keeping 
her supply up for the evenings. I think it's hard to get your body to go 
completely off milk production for 8 hours, then expect to fully meet the 
baby's needs outside of work. If she's not able to pump and save the milk 
during the day, I would recommend that she had express as much as possible 
one time per day - just for supply. When I've had to do this, I just go into 
a toilet stall with a stack of paper towels, express into the towels, and 
throw them away. It seems like a waste - but it keeps the milk there. I 
didn't make this a regular habit, but when each of my babies was 16 months 
old, I had a few all day conventions for work - no good option to store 
milk, walking around a huge convention center all day, no good option for 
storing the pump between sessions, and I found that this method of "pump and 
dump" kept me comfortable and kept my milk supply up quite satisfactorily. 
OK, I know it means you're technically putting "biohazard" material in the 
regular trash, so if you're worried about that, express into tissues and 
flush them - but the paper towels are more absorbant. You could even get a 
paper cup, express into that, and pour the milk out. Lots of ways to manage 
it, but yet another reason for all moms to be proficient at manual 
expression!
Best of luck to this mom getting her supply back up! I don't know if you 
specified how soon she goes back to work - can you add that piece of 
information?

Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC
www.workandpump.com 

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