Lisa,
Where you've landed is basically where I am too, although in cases of
relactation/induced lactation I tend more towards 20-30 mins as the aim
because the nipple stim is so important. I also see women who want to pump
less frequently and for longer to make up for not doing it through the
day....there was one mum who pumped 2x a day for an hour each, amazingly she
did make a small amount of milk.
The power pumping idea that Lara described is also something I think is
worth exploring and some mums may go to bed with the pump for a day and pump
every 30 mins all day (a bit like the babymoon so often suggested) and this
can also have a big impact.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

>Where I've landed is to generally recommended 10-15 minutes, maybe 20, of
> double pumping, or until the milk stops, whichever comes last. So many
> mothers think that fewer long pumpings a day will do the trick over more
> frequency, but they are wrong. The real key if they are trying to maintain
> or increase supply is frequency. You can have two women pumping the same
> number of minutes a day but broken down into different frequencies and
> durations; the one with the greater frequency with quite likely have the
> best long term yield.
>
> I also tell moms who don't have enough milk that if the milk stops at 3 or
5
> or 10 minutes, to close their eyes and keep going. Why? Because they need
> that extra stimulation for the milk supply. It's not only about removing
> milk and emptying the breast, it's also about stimulation. When you are
> inducing milk production, it all starts by sucking or pumping on a dry
> breast, right?  And we do it often to encourage more milk. I see the
> principle as the same. Most babies breastfeed 20-40 in the early weeks,
> somewhere around there, and we want to duplicate that and translate it
into
> the double pumping regimen.
>

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