If you are a Mommy or a Daddy, you know that cow’s milk is a huge no-no until babies reach their first birthday. Up until then it’s breast milk only (or formula if you are going that route). Rylie is a booby baby, she hated bottles until she was about 6 months and could hold them herself. Since I work all day and she spends the day with a sitter, I pump milk for her to drink the following day. It is a HUGE commitment to pump each and every day while trying to work a full time job and many a determined lady has had to put her pump on the shelf in favor of formula. I am, if nothing else, very stubborn and type A. So quitting was never any option for me. I only would have stopped if I tried every possible avenue and still wasn’t making adequate milk for the kiddo. But as it is, despite its challenges (which I may detail later on) we are fast approaching the ever important first birthday. My, my, where has the time gone?
The point of all this is that dropping the pump and being able to offer cow’s milk will drastically change my days and I am really looking forward to it. I pump three times per day (2x at work, 1x before bed at home). I should be able to drop them slowly, first the evening, then 1x at work, then none. And then I’ll have a real lunch hour again, and will be able to go to bed as early as I like and will spend less time washing plastic pieces and, and, and…. So, I’m really excited, albeit a little nervous (because it’s a change, and change is big and scary). I was thinking of dropping my evening pump this week and just counting on my freezer stash to make up the difference, but I think I should wait just a few more days. Oh, it’s so close I can almost taste it!! Seriously, you won’t believe how this will change my life. Just wait and see!!!
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