Reply #4: I'm sure you're exhausted, but you might try pumping *after* a feeding, once

[gkhouston]

your baby has had her fill, to increase your supply. I had a preemie with a weak suck who had to be taught how to nurse and I have thyroid disease so I ended up using a breast pump both to bring in my supply and to boost it while I was nursing my daughter.

Sleep? I was a zombie. I had large breasts and a preemie, so co-sleeping didn't work well and I had to use the damned pump afterwards, anyway. I've always assumed most of my zombie-ness was the postpartum thyroiditis from hell. I got used to it after about six weeks and my daughter started skipping that ~1am feeding at the same age as the formula fed kids. I still got up at 1 to pump because my body was used to producing milk and with those hands-free pumping kits you only have to be sort of awake although you have to be careful about what size collection bottles you use. You don't want to doze off and wake to find you've overfilled and wasted milk. :-)

Congrats on your new baby!