Monday, May 3, 2010

Milk Maniac

As you know I'm a working mother.  I'm also a nursing mother.  And that makes me a pumping mother too.
When I went to Babies 'R Us to register back when I was 7 months pregnant I was going back and forth between a Medela Pump In Style Advanced and a Medela Freestyle breast pump.  She convinced me that based on how much I would use it, I should get a Freestyle.  So When Tre was about a month old I went ahead and bought one off ebay. 
And this is what I use twice a day Monday through Friday to extract Tre's meals for the next day.  I've always gotten just what he needed but a month ago decided to get more.  Last Friday alone I got 8oz extra.  And since Tre's eating 2 - 5oz bottles while I'm gone now, that's 18oz in one day.  So, in the past 4 weeks I managed to freeze 72oz of milk! 
I already had that much stored but it was from before I had to give up cow products and since if I gave it to my fragile man it would make him sick again, I donated it to a friend.
You may ask why if I'm nursing until Tre doesn't want to anymore do I pump and store that much milk.  I do it because I can and I want other working moms to know that they can too. 

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