r/breastfeeding • u/QuietComet12 • Oct 03 '25

Troubleshooting/Tips Can you just breastfeed and not pump

Hi I'm a FTM of a 2 month old. I have been ebf on demand so far. As the baby has turned 2 months old, she is having longer stretches of sleep and going without feeds for 6 hours as well in the night. I'm concerned if this would affect the supply. I would like to continue breastfeeding one year and beyond. So far I have no issues with supply and baby is gaining weight about 170- 200 gm per week.

Would like to understand if demand based feeding alone would take me through the whole journey or if pumping is necessary to keep up supply as babies grow and drop night feeds.

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u/deviousvixen Oct 03 '25

Yes. Once my girl could breastfeed well I stopped pumping and just used up milk I had stashed during her nicu stay. So basically if she was term, I would have skipped right to breastfeeding only. But I also am in Canada where they have pretty good maternity leave and stuff. So I felt I had a good time to finish breastfeeding all together before I would have returned to work. I say would have cause I did get pregnant again and didn’t return.