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Does your Sign. other understand how valuable breastmilk is?

Myetta - posted on 08/21/2010 ( 1 mom has responded )

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So my princess is just about 4 months and EBF. I'm returning to work in a few short weeks and have started trying too establish a good supply for daycare and getting her used to a bottle,. After buying 4 differet types of bottles we found one she would take. Next step getting enough pumped milk for a feeding. After 3 days I finally squeezed in enough time to get 3.5 oz of pumped milk.

So i put it in a breastmilk bag in the back of the fridge waiting for the perfect time to break it out for a daddy feeding. 2 days later i get 2.5 oz and do the same thing.



A couple days later that time comes...I have to go grocery shopping....no problem daddy breaks out the bag of milk. I get him and he says she used the bottle as a paci, like she does me and only took a half ounce. The next day I'm cleaning and see 2 bottles of BM with barely an ounce out of them. I ask him about it and he shrugs and says oh I didn't put the other bottle bag int eh fridge so I just pulled out the new one.



I want to scream....DO YOU NOT REALIZE HOW HARD IT WAS TO GET 6 OUNCES OF BM.

Instead I snap, what do you think I am a factory that it just ends up int eh fridge on its own, that its so simple to pump with 4 kids and cooking and cleaning to do.

He gives me this sheepish look and just blinks...then I realize I have to explain how much breastmilk is like liquid gold.

LOL





Now he knows...as soon as shes done put it back in the fridge.

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Jeannette - posted on 08/23/2010

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That pretty much sounds like my husband. I only work weekends, so he is home with Bryce. I pump before I leave, so that usually produces one bottle, then I take one out of the freezer. He always uses the fresh one first and since Bryce doesn't take the bottle all the time, I usually come home to find the freezer one still in the fridge. For about the past month I have been having to throw away bags of milk. I tell him, use the freezer ones first!!! But he won't. Sigh. I told him, again, yesterday how important that milk is. My frozen supply is running low, so now I pump once a day, and I don't want to see it get wasted. Sigh. Men. I hope this doesn't happen next weekend. I hope your bf keeps up the good work. :)

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