Today is the last day I pump at work...like...EVER!! I'm giddy. Dude...pumping SUCKS so hard! And I've been doing it off and on for 7 years. I really don't know any breastfeeding mothers that enjoy pumping. It's just a necessary evil to breastfeeding and working.
Now, I do have to give credit where credit is due...without my dear Medela, I would not have been able to grow 3 tiny babies into plump toddlers only using breast milk. So thank you Medela. Thank you for saving me enormous amounts of money on formula, and thank you for allowing me to breastfeed each of my kids well past the first year mark. Though I hate to use you, I would have been lost without you.
This does not mean I'm going to stop breastfeeding Cohen. I plan to continue until he's ready to stop. It does mean that Cohen is down to one 3 ounce bottle a day, I'll drop it to 2 ounces next week and then eliminate it completely.
When the breastfeeding stops? Then I will be sad. Very, very sad. But today is about the happy dance and no more lugging this girl back and forth to work. No more cleaning bottles every night. No more stuffing toothpicks and q-tips into little tiny compartments that milk sometimes splashes into. Yay...I get like 15 extra minutes every night to myself. This is one "last time" that I am going to be very happy to see go.
And Medela...you have done your job excellently, without fail. You go retire and do whatever it is that retired breastpumps do...but I may need you on an occasional weekend so don't go too far.
