After almost 10 months the dairy barn is closed!It's official. I'm hanging up my horns. I've been an EP'er since the beginning of July. We BF'd for the first 4 weeks and then moved on to bottle feeding and pumping. Thankfully I was blessed with an over abundant supply and at my peak I was pumping twice as much as LO was eating in a day. As a SAHM my freezer stash is insane. I have way more than enough to get her well past her 1st birthday using only frozen BM. I really tried to cut out the pumping last month but I just wasn't mentally ready. I did drop down to only pumping every 12 hours, but that's as much as I could do. This month I took full advantage of AF's arrival which generally creates a dip in my supply anyways and started using Sudafed and cut my pumps down to once a day and now I haven't pumped in over 48 hours. For someone who never really had strong feelings either way about BFing during my pregnancy, I can't believe how attached I was to the pump. I am looking forward to my new found freedom! I am so proud of myself for sticking to it for so long. I never would have imagined that I would have pumped for as long as I did.
EPers have all my respect. You guys are AMAZING! You should be really really proud of yourself for making it to a year, and for being so good with the pump. Congrats! And good bye pump!
Re: XP from BFing - Goodbye pump!
That is so amazing. I am totally in awe of EP'ers...I couldn't do it, I don't have the patience and I detest the pump...
Good job, Mama!
wow. you did an amazing job and i am jealous of your freezer stash!
goodbye, pump!!!!!!
woohoo!