A pumping log that sits next to nursing and bottles

Why log pumping at all

If you pump to build a stash, go back to work or share night feeds, it helps to see how many sessions you did and how much each one gave. A pumping log turns scattered notes into a simple picture of your days.

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. That way the feeding numbers show what the baby took, and the pumping numbers show what you pumped, and neither is counted twice.

Honest numbers only

Ella shows the sessions and amounts you logged, with totals and the average per session. It never estimates supply or tells you what to expect. If you have questions about supply, a lactation consultant is the right person to ask.

A pumping session, logged

After you pump, open More activities, choose Pumping and enter the amount. It takes a few seconds, and it is saved even without a connection.

Building a stash for work

If you pump to prepare for going back to work, the pumping chart shows how many sessions you did each day and how much they gave. When a bottle of that milk is used, log it as a bottle.

Pumping and the rest of the day

Open Journal to see pumping entries alongside feeds, sleep and diapers. Pumping also appears on Today’s timeline and has its own chart under Charts. The 24-hour Rhythm shows sleep, nursing, bottles and diapers; it does not mark pumping sessions.

Sessions on a schedule

If you pump at set times, the journal shows each session in place during the day, next to feeds and naps, so you can plan around them.

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.

Paper or app

The printable has separate left, right and total amount columns. Ella’s pumping entry has one combined amount field: add the left and right amounts and enter the total. Add the session time and an optional note by hand; Ella does not import the sheet.

A day with pumping

Morning: nursing, then a short pumping session. Midday at work: two sessions logged from the phone. Evening: a partner gives a bottle of that milk. Each step sits in the same journal, in order.

Paper amounts in one app entry

For example, 40 mL on the left and 30 mL on the right become one pumping entry of 70 mL. Keep a later bottle as a separate bottle entry for the amount the baby drank. Pumping totals describe what you logged, not milk stored in the freezer.