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I had to wear the pads the entire time, which was til 3 months, and I have a very good friends whose baby is 9 months and she still has to wear the pads. If she feeds him on time then she generally doesn't have a problem, but if they have to wait a little bit for some reason then she will have some leakage. She has to pump after her feeding to remove all the milk that let down and she just freezes it for emergency need. I hope this helps.