Sooooo, while you may hear a lot about "sore nipples" with breastfeeding, there is nothing to prepare you for the reality. Yikes!!! Getting settled at home was pretty rough on Tuesday because both Ella and I were getting used to feeding schedules and techniques. My boobies swelled up like cantaloupes as the milk was coming in, which just made it harder for poor Ella to get any kind of latch, let alone a good one. (The pediatrician later called it, "like trying to kiss a basketball." Poor Ella! Poor me!) I was so uncomfortable that I ended up pumping twice just to relieve the horrible pressure.... I may have had my first hormonal, postpartum cry over not being able to feed my baby. Not admitting to anything.
And, ladies, we should all be thankful. I know a lot of us new moms this year have gotten our breast pumps through our insurance plans, which is pretty sweet in itself. But let's remember how far we have come in the pure technology aspect, too: My mother was watching me set up the pump for the first time and commented, "Oh they gave you two bottles?" No, mom, it's a double electric pump. "You mean you can do both at once??!?" Mother then described to me how thirty-(cough cough) years ago, she was unable to get even an electric pump, let alone a double pump. She told me that she did all her pumping by hand. Let's all flashback to having to pump a bike tire or something- it sucks! My mother and your mothers are troopers for hand-pumping everything for us! It was super cute that Mom spent most of that afternoon sighing and swooning over the double-electric pump. She even called my aunt, who was jealous, too. Aunt said that twenty-five-ish years ago, she was able to rent a huge, cantankerous electric pump, but still had to do each boob separately. I know I'm thankful not to have to deal with that!
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| Taking a nap while we wait for Daddy to come home from work |
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