Find Your Average Refill Rate
- pumpwithpurpose
- Oct 24, 2023
- 1 min read
A Way to Find your Average Refill Rate
Per Hour
How to Calculate:
Total amount of breastmilk produced
in a 24 hour period
Divided By:
24 (hours in a day)
Example - If you make 48 ounces in a day:
48 ounces
Divided By:
24 (hours in a day)
Equals: 2 ounces per hour
Example Continued - If you pump 2 ounces per hour:
And you pump every 3 hours, then that is 6 ounces you may get in a pumping session.
Note: Prolactin levels may vary as the day goes on, so you may get more than 6 in the morning and less than 6 in the afternoon.
This is a great way to track how much milk you’re producing to make sure you’re staying on target, and producing as much as milk as possible. Results may vary. This is not the same for everyone and this is a way to mathematically think about it if you are a bath lover like me.
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My refill rate used to be 2 to 3 oz per hour and now at 15mpp it's 1oz per hour. I saw somewhere you said breastmilk is like your kids multivitamin and it really encouraged Mr to keep at it.