Yeh, i agree with Tannis, if we all weren't interested, inspired and cheering you on, this thread would have never gotten to 8 pages long (so far) - and that's not counting the lurkers!

so yes, petal, you ARE very inspirational!

yo're doing something a little out of the ordinary, and you're also prepared to put your own experience "out there", so in SO many ways, you totally rock Gudi!

and this applies no matter how long you do it. If you stopped today, i would STILl say, "YOU TOTALLY ROCK".

i get excited WITH you for every millilitre you express, it IS exciting.

i BF 24/7 and i struggle to get to 30ml (hand expressing) the few times i have attempted it, so all power to you!

but aside from all the hooplah, how are you feeling about
- finding the time of day (that suits you) to actually do the expressing?
- have you found a particular time when you are "fuller"?
- has the chest pain decreased?
- do you give M all the BM at once, or syringe by syringe? do you notice any difference in her reactoin e.g bwn drinkign your milk and Formula - do you think she can tell the diff?

my DD giggles and makes very happy noises when she knows it's feed time - took us ages to get to that stage, but gee it' does make me feel good.