I would 1st like to say that I know I'm TOTALLY lucky to even be able to produce enough milk to breastfeed my LilyBug & pump enough to stash. That being said I have a love/hate relationship w/pumping....
I love pumping because it allows me to feed LilyBug when I'm away from her w/o giving her formula. I'm also amazed that my body has the ability to produce milk. When I'm pumping, I actually have this goofy grin on my face because I'm so excited about all the milk that comes out.
Now I ate pumping because there is so much work involved, cleaning the pump, making sure I have all the pieces (I have been known to forget them), keeping batteries, massaging the milk out, waiting for my body to catch up & put out more milk, the pulling on my poor nipples, the awful loud sound my pump makes, storing the milk at work, the dirty pumping location at work...If I could just push a button (my nipple would work, lol) and all the milk fall out into the containers, I would be a happy camper.
Even though I have this love/hate relationship w/pumping, I will not stop until I absolutely have too. I plan to breastfeed/pump until LilyBug is a year old. I'm going to need to keep a lot of patience.
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