- day 1: 7 ounces of 100% breast milk in the straw sippy cup. we went to hmart (a korean supermarket) in case staying at home was too much associated with nursing. he drank that milk down like nobody's business. he held so tight to that sippy cup and didn't take his lips off the straw for a second. i have to say that part of it might have been that he was also probably miserably hungry because by the time we got the milk prepared, packed our things, got to the store and got in the shopping cart, it was noon or so, which is pretty late for him to get milk. we had noodles for lunch, and he was fussy, but it was hard to tell whether it was because of the noodles, or because of the lack of nursing, or because he hates the hmart eatery. who knows. anyway, he looked like such a big boy drinking his milk that it made me cry. his stools were loose that day, but i wondered if it was the poppy seed chicken that we had the night before. i pumped after he went down for a nap because i realized the breast milk store i build up is rather small.
- day 2: 5 ounces of breast milk and 2 ounces of whole milk in the straw sippy cup. i can't remember where we went that day, but the pattern is that we went somewhere all week during the lunch hour. walmart, marshalls, the mall, old navy, goodwill, basically anywhere but home. ate lunch like a champ. diaper rash began. it was pretty widespread, so i started the diaper cream defense. loose stools again, but we did have leftover poppy seed chicken. pumped during Mo's nap again.
- day 3: 3.5 ounces of breast milk with 3.5 ounces of whole milk in a straw sippy cup. stools looked better. diaper rash looked better. but then he got a bumpy red rash on his lower back too. pumped during Mo's nap again.
- day 4: 2 ounces of breast milk in a cup with a straw. 4 ounces of whole milk in the straw sippy cup. i decided to split them because the breast milk was getting chunky in the sippy cup. it was gross looking. still smelled just fine, so i figured it might have been some kind of reaction between the milks. anyway, so i gave him the breast milk in the cup at home and took the sippy cup with the whole milk. he didn't drink hardly any of the whole milk this day. he just kind of took sloppy swigs of it and then spit it out all over the bib. maybe he was really tasting it. oh, btw, bibs have been really important for some reason, he really dribbles whole milk down his chin when he drinks it. woke up the next morning with what felt like painful boulders where my chest usually was; nursed Mo as normal in the morning and didn't do much else about it (ie. didn't pump), since i was hopeful that everything would just work itself out naturally.
- day 4: 7 ounces of 100% whole milk in the straw sippy cup. he drank it all. his stools were normal. diaper rash nearly cleared. lunch is normal. woke up the next morning in pain again, but not as bad.
- and everything's just been normal since then.
i don't really know if this is how it's supposed to be done, but this is how i did it. i suppose i'll probably do a similar thing for the dinner time feed...this week, next week (?). then the morning feed last, just because that one is my favorite... it's quiet and cuddly. here i am realizing that i have a favorite one, just when i thought all year long that Mo and i both felt kind of blah about nursing.
in some ways, it's the end of an era! i calculated how much time i've spent nursing this precious little boy because i'm sort of a datasexual that way. of course, the work is very front heavy, in the first few months of his life when he was pretty much constantly nursing, but anyway, it added up to a total of about 1000 hours, or a little over 40 straight days and nights. it was the length of time that it took to flood the world. that's how much time i've spent with our baby drinking from me. weird, huh?
lovelove,
milk maid
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