Tomorrow, we're trying basically the opposite of the 24-hour breastfeeding cure. Rather than trying to breastfeed the whole day, I'm going to try to pump the whole day. It'll give me some idea of how much total milk I'm producing. It will also give us a baseline to see if production is going up or down (if we try the experiment again later on). We'll also see how much formula Sterling wants to eat during the entire day, which will allow us to sort of extrapolate how much she's getting from me.
Here's my prediction: I think I usually produce between 0.3 and 0.5mL of milk per hour. That means that I should be producing between 7 and 12 oz of milk per day. That agrees with Sterling's current formula consumption level - she usually eats between 10 and 15 oz per day. Most websites suggest that to determine the amount of milk a baby needs, you take 2.5 x pounds of baby. Sterling weighed about 8.5 pounds when we last weighed her. That means she should need about 21oz of milk per day, which fits in with my prediction.
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