I have pumped 7432.5 ounces of milk since September 19th, 2007. That is 58 gallons of milk. That is not counting any of milk they've gotten from direct breast feeding. My next project is to add up the number of hours I've spent breast feeding. When this is all over, I'm totaling up all the gallons I pumped, the hours spent breast feeding, and the number of diapers changed (I have a log of all of this stuff) and I'm sending them a bill before they go off to college.
But seriously folks, I do it with love. Really. Still, 58 gallons??? Can you believe it? I can't!
Hrm. Well, Seth got a hair cut recently. And um, Julian got a hair cut a couple weeks ago. It's been months since I got a hair cut, so you're not talking about me.
Wait... you're not talking about YOU, are you?? YOU got a hair cut??? YOU??? NO WAY. I don't believe you. I must see pictures. Or see you in person. When are you going to come down and visit us? God knows WE'RE never leaving the house again.
Thanks for the birthday wishes. 500 pounds, huh? It's a shame I put that right back on by drinking water...
I wonder if you CAN make cheese out of breast milk... I suppose there's no reason why you couldn't, but... it's making me kind of queasy thinking about it.
I just decided to start tracking how many ounces I pump a day ... well two days ago. Before that I was just making sure to get the 6 sessions in. But it's no where near the amount that you have done! I just imagine that you hooked up pretty much nonstop. What is that? Like two gallons a week?
I call the pump my fourth baby, because I spend just as much time with her as I do with my other three babies, since it's the only way I can feed Abby. Poor, sweet Abby. I get between 6 and 10 pumpings a day, depending on the day.
honestly, I despise the bags. They make a big giant mess. I know some people love them and I am sure that I must just be doing something wrong, but I hate them, so I use collection bottles instead. So we bought an extra freezer for all the milk! (Just kidding...we bought an extra freezer because we needed it, it just happened to coincide with a time that I needed to store milk...but I don't actually store much milk for long... I have 90 ounces or so in the freezer; mostly, they drink what I pump immediately.)
hey, that's a good point, now I've got a new thing to calculate. I was planning to count how many diapers we've changed (that's on our chart too), but now I can actually calculate how much the diapers WEIGHED!
At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, that's a lot of milk. (And it's so cool that you're able to do that! Having the pump as your 4th baby can't be fun, though.)
That IS a lot of milk! Having never experienced nursing WITHOUT the pump attachment, I have no idea what life without the pump is like, so I don't mind it so much.
pretty much, yeah. I think BF'ing ribbons serve to put guilt on those who don't make it to the next goal. I don't expect to make it to a year, but I'm proud of having made it as far as I've made it and I'll go as far as I can.
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