Milking It...

 

Any of you breast feeding moms out there ever feel like a dairy cow... Our little guy is breast fed and has never had any other milk besides mine. I work full time so that means I am pumping. Every single time I head back to my little area I feel like the dairy cows. The ones that when you are driving by them on the freeway/highway you can tell it is getting close to feeding/milking time because they are all in a line headed to the barn. I am pretty sure if it was called "milking" and not "pumping" I wouldn't be able to bring myself to do it! This thought pops into my head daily as I have to inform the other people in the office that I will be in the back room and they need to cover phones/front door. I am going to be in the back milking myself... YUCK!

So I am one of those moms whose never had supply problems as long as I pump every two hours... I can occasionally skip a session here or there but while I am at work I have to pump every two hours. Even now that Logan is 8 months and has started eating more and more solids. He doesn't drink very much milk during the day. Maybe 2, 4 ounce bottles from 8am - 5pm. As soon as I walk into that door he wants to nurse and then he'll nurse about 7:30 and then just before bed between 9:00 - 9:30. But for him to have enough milk in the freezer I have to stick to that pumping schedule and I hate it! I get busy and its a pain to stop my projects sometimes multiple times to pump!

This fact alone has made me consider weaning Logan. But there are 2 reasons I am still doing it. Well two other than the fact that is was perfectly made for MY baby. The first one being that I am afraid of what is put into our foods today. I am afraid of recalls and feeding my baby something that might make him sick. Have you looked at an ingredient list lately. Very few foods have all natural, whole ingredients in them! Most of them have lines and lines of things that I can't pronounce and have no idea what they do to our bodies and earth. The second reason... I am LAZY! I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night and have to make a bottle! It is very nice to just roll over and have on tap exactly what my baby wants!

But Logan is getting close to a year and I think at a year or as close to it as possible we will wean him. What do you give your baby once they are a year instead of breast milk. Can they just go to regular milk, coconut milk, almond milk, or do we still have to supplement with a formula?