Roxy Tries

Having shared my breastfeeding experience with you earlier this week, I wanted to share some things that helped make exclusively pumping a successful one for me, while it's still fresh on the brain. I do want to start off by saying, I won't be diving into breastmilk food safety, for the sake of this post, because I could probably write a whole blog post on that subject. Breastmilk is a perishable food item and food safety is so important. I'm assuming your doctor has provided you with some literature on how to store breastmilk properly, and if they haven't you can easily find that information on the internet. If you plan on pumping in any capacity, do your research girlfriend! Okay? Okay cool, moving on! During my early stages of EPing, I joined different breastfeeding support groups for advice. As my journey continued, I found myself in a good place with pumping and was able to help quite a few different women out. I noticed a lot of the questions were the sam...

A little over a week ago, when Vela was sick and up at all hours of the night, I stopped pumping without even realizing it. I cut down to one pump a day beforehand, with plans to completely wean, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I guess this was natures way of taking the pressure off of me. It's crazy to think I started off breastfeeding so overwhelmed, and couldn't wait for it to end, yet here I am, sad to see it do so. I'd like to back things up to the day my daughter was born. I developed an infection during labor called Chorio, which may have passed on to Vela. At the time of Vela's birth, she was immediately brought to the NICU to receive treatment and given donor milk. We didn't have our first breastfeeding session until she was eight hours old. A mixture of receiving the milk freely, inverted nipples, and her small mouth made it hard for her to latch. We worked with four different lactation specialist during our two-day stay. On paper, we...