Apparently we had a power outage 2 days ago. The breaker in the garage tripped to the freezer and all my breast milk is gone. All of it. Over 300 ounces.
I am only pumping about 4 ounces a day. How do I go about weaning him to either cows milk or formula? I have about 12 ounces of breast milk in the freezer inside. Can I just switch him? Do I mix half and half?
I'm so upset I can barely think. This happened a few months ago and I lost about 100 ounces but was able to pump more and make up a little. UGH. I'm nearly one month shy of a year. I guess I should be happy I made it this far but it hurts. The hours and hours and hours put in. FML.
Re: shoot me.
Ah CRAP! That hurts!
No advice, that just really sucks.
SCANDAL!
You could call your ped but I bet they will tell you to go to WCM.
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Exactly this, ans yes, WCM =whole cow's milk
Oh god, Buona. I pretty much yelled, "NOOOOOOO!" when I read this. I can't even imagine. You set that freezer on fire, I don't care if the power outage wasn't its fault.
You do whatever you want today, try to head off the PTSD, lol.
I would be in tears! I'm so sorry! That's a true nightmare come true right there!
As far as switching, I think I just went cold turkey for ODS. I can't remember clearly though...
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I went through each and every bag and was able to save about 50 ounces. The majority of the milk was at the top of the freezer in bins, but they were almost nearly warm. I'm glad to have the 50 ounces- I think I will start mixing WCM in with the breast milk, then just switch him once I run out. I still breast feed in the AMs and PMs.
For funsies I did some math and 6 months of milk, pumping about an hour a day--- figuring how much I get paid.... it's like $8600 worth of my time. LOL. That's a lot!
Sigh.