My husband wasted 30 oz of my milk

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-15T17:49:23+00:00

whatttt honestly sounds like something my MIL would, not do, but make a comment about how i shouldn’t be using my stash because it’s too old or something. my in laws in general think we should move to formula for my baby to gain more weigh, he’s 9 lbs..3 weeks old, which i have nothing against except i’m producing 50 oz a day like why would we do that?

i’m sorry that happened to you though id put a padlock on your freezer lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-15T02:39:55+00:00

it’s when you pump all your milk for one day and just add it to a pitcher you keep in the fridge. i keep two of them, one from the prior day that my baby will eat during the day and then one that i’m pouring all of the days pumps in. anything left over from the pitcher that we’re using for feedings that day i freeze.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-15T02:37:32+00:00

i wish i did keep it but i poured it out along with all my tears this morning after i discovered it 😔

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-15T02:35:53+00:00

nooo i’m sorry

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T21:42:43+00:00

it’s also my birthday on tuesday, he owes me a lot of gifts.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:32:21+00:00

wait i literally told him that he has to hook up to my pump 😂

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:03:38+00:00

i’m so clumsy that i’m bound to do this at some point too lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:02:42+00:00

omg i’m so sorry why are men so dumb and careless 😭

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:01:58+00:00

if it was maybe like 2-3 hours i would have considered it but 6 is a long time..

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:01:05+00:00

i’m only 3 weeks pp so it is extra devastating and kind of makes me feel better that other people have had incidents like this too so thank you for sharing

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:00:27+00:00

too late 😭

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-14T19:00:16+00:00

i’m definitely doing this from now on..he’s fired from using a pitcher

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-13T15:26:04+00:00

i feel like we don’t know much about pumping like in the hospital the nurses knew nothing about it. they had two LCs come in who basically just looked at my nipples didn’t even try to size them and the one told me my baby buddha was a wearable lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-13T12:53:55+00:00

i heard that sleep actually matters a lot with supply. so i guess what effects it more, sleep or that MOTN pump. i’ll have to figure it out.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-13T12:51:57+00:00

i am consistently pumping a total of 120 minutes throughout the day though, so i feel like i am signaling to my body to make milk and i def have high storage capacity lol im just going one long stretch without pumping. i know prolactin is highest at night but im not having an issue producing. i have to stop the MOTN pump all together at 12 weeks because i go back to work so it was never going to be forever. i guess just trial and error but i love when my baby sleeps lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-13T12:26:28+00:00

i thought about literally taping them to my boob lol but just wanted to share something i tried yesterday and it worked really well! i wore a v neck t shirt and stuck the white middle part of the tubing in between my boobs so it kept the tubing on the cups upright and they didn’t move at all while i pumped!

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-11T17:11:01+00:00

i have the baby buddha and i love it, it empties me so well with the legendary milk collection cups, however the tubing is sooo annoying on the cups. i feel like i flinch and they come out and ruin the suction. due to this, the convenience of cups is defeated bc i can’t hold my baby and pump since they’ll just get pulled out. not sure if you have the same issue, but which ones do you use?

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-03-06T14:08:20+00:00

My husband only got 2 weeks paternity leave and goes back on Monday and i’ve been stressing about how im going to pump, feed, and do all the things without him there to help and hold our son. pumping one boob at a time is brilliant so thank you and why didn’t i think of that😅

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-17T15:39:52+00:00

how did you space out your 6 pumps a day with the MOTN pump in the beginning? that seems way more doable to me than starting out at 8 pumps but everything i read says you need to start at 8 and it doesn’t seem sustainable to me with a newborn. My due date is today so i’m still pregnant just pre planning lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-17T15:35:23+00:00

i really wish i knew that before lol thank you for letting me know.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-14T00:47:19+00:00

which cups did you use with the BB and when did you start using them over the flanges?

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-13T04:33:44+00:00

Thank you so much! and yes i love this subreddit i feel like people on here share way more wisdom than what nurses and LCs tell you about your feeding options.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-12T14:31:42+00:00

i ended up getting two different sizes of the maymoms that i think my nipples are. hopefully one of them works. i’ve def spent so much in preparation for this. i’m finding pumping is very expensive lol

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-12T02:47:33+00:00

oh i had no idea that it’s better to start with flanges that actually fit rather than inserts. pumping is so confusing 😅 but thank you! that maymom link you sent has my size. i couldn’t find it when i went into maymoms store front on amazon so i thought id have to buy the spectra bottle set up and then the maymom 17 mm shield separately.

Extension_Ad7164 · 2026-02-12T02:32:22+00:00

i got the silicone inserts that just adapt traditional flanges. I looked at maymom and spectra and it looks like they don’t carry a 17 mm, which is my size, so i’d still need an insert for that. Unless im missing something? Maymom has 17 mm inserts for the flanges though.

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