My friend who had her triplets at 25 1/2 weeks is pumping for her little survivor, Zachary. Yesterday she mentioned to a mutual friend that she was having a lot of pain with pumping, and the mutual friend mentioned it to me. I called her, and it sounds like she has the wrong size flanges for her pump! She describes her nipples constantly rubbing the inside of the flanges, and has cracks all the way around. She thought it was just normal to hurt if you are pumping all the time. I'm going to see her soon and hopefully sort out this issue and get her healed up. She's also pumping a pretty large volume of milk, 6 oz every 3 hours, averaging 45-48 oz in 24 hours. What volume of milk makes you start worrying about oversupply? Her little guy is still vented, and in the last day finally started on a regular feeding schedule, but he takes only a very small fraction of her daily production at this point of course. At what volume of production would you encourage her to decrease a little? So frustrating that she could be in pain for days and not know it wasn't normal, and also not have the LCs or nurses checking on her. Jennifer Tieman Family Physician Mom to 4, including my toddler nursling Caroline Rose *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html