Did you know about reverse cycling?

Did you know that if a mother and her nursing baby are separated during the day, the baby may compensate by increasing nighttime nursing sessions?

This is known as reverse cycling and can help to alleviate worries about whether or not baby is ingesting enough milk during a given 24 hour period. Since baby would be able to consume a large percentage of milk during the nighttime hours, much less expressed milk would be needed during the time of separation from his or her mother.