Remember this?
This is how it all began...
Breast milk in a bullet
It's been almost 14 months of pumping. When they were born, it was every 2 hours during the day, every 3 at night. During the first 2 weeks, not once did I miss a pumping session. I was one dedicated mama. After that, I started sleeping through the alarm but during the day, I was a pumping queen.
One of the nice things about the NICU is having a super supportive staff. Nurses that reminded me it was time, nurses that brought me food and snacks, no way could I have done this without them. It's getting tougher and tougher with three mobile kiddos. Yes, they are all over the place. So this week I made the decision to only pump twice a day. Lots of mixed emotions, I know its coming to an end soon...Around their birthday in May, I went down to three times a day. I can no longer keep up with that, big sis and mostly the house and the laundry. It will be a bitter sweet moment when that pump is put away. Part of me will be doing cartwheels for sure. My goal is their due date...August 28, 2012.
The trio is still on breast milk and formula. I tried to make their foods with whole milk and it resulted in lots of spit up. We are trying again in August. Only about six more weeks until the anticipated due date. I'll have to start thinking of how we will celebrate the big due date (adjusted birthday) and those homecoming dates!
A little late...but hope you Friday the 13th was great.
I just saw this and OH MY GOODNESS. I am so impressed that you have been pumping for 14 months. Seriously....I can't tell you how many times I threatened to throw my pump out the window and the nurses talked me off the ledge. I did it for probably 6 months and I couldn't take it anymore. You are amazing!!!!!!!!
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