A pumping log that sits next to nursing and bottles

Why log pumping

If you pump to build a stash, go back to work or share night feeds, it helps to see how much you pumped each day and how much a session usually gives. The pumped milk chart shows daily totals and the average per session. When a bottle of that milk is used, you log it as a bottle.

Kept apart from feeds

In Ella, pumped milk is its own entry and its own chart. When the baby drinks that milk from a bottle, the bottle is logged as a feed. The feeding log shows the nursing and bottle sessions you record, while the pumping chart shows the milk amounts you enter. Pumping and feeds stay separate in the journal.

A day with pumping

Open More activities and choose Pumping. Start the timer as you begin, or, if you have already finished, choose It already ended and enter how long it took. Add the amount and save; it works even without a connection. Pumped each side separately? Add them up: 40 mL (1.4 oz) on the left and 30 mL (1 oz) on the right is one 70 mL (2.4 oz) session. Morning nursing and a short session, two sessions at work, a partner giving a bottle of that milk in the evening: each one sits in place in the same journal, next to feeds and naps.

A stash for going back to work

Building a stash before going back to work? Log each extra session as you go. For example, one extra session after the morning feed: Monday 60 mL (2 oz), Wednesday 45 mL (1.5 oz), Friday 75 mL (2.5 oz). Charts show each day's amount and the average per session, and your partner sees the same entries when planning bottles for your first days back.

Pumping and the rest of the day

Open Journal to see pumping entries alongside feeds, sleep and diapers. On Today, pumping shows in Recent moments, and it has its own chart under Charts.

Exclusively pumping

When all of the baby's milk is pumped, the pumping chart shows what you pumped and the bottle chart shows what the baby took, side by side and never mixed.