I knew when I decided that I wanted to breastfeed that it was a true commitment… what I didn’t know was that on certain days it might make me feel like maybe I should be committed. It is not for wimps! Last week all of a sudden in the middle of the night I woke up and became panicked that my milk was GONE! ”L” woke up at about 4 a.m. and instead of my breasts being engorged with milk, they felt loose, flabby and ridiculously small. ”Uh oh”, time to figure out what in the world was going on. In my exhausted and hazy state I tried to think back over the previous days to see if I could figure out just what had happened to my milk. I finally settled upon “in-frequent feedings and pumping” as the culprit. I had gotten so busy that week and had given “L” so many bottles of milk that were from frozen packets that I wanted to use up before they were no longer good that I had somehow forgotten that I needed to keep working at keeping my supply up.
Thankfully after several days of dedicated feeding or pumping every two to three hours my milk seems to have returned to it’s “normal” state. In fact this morning around 7:15 a.m. I noticed that the right side of my pj’s was getting soaked… and just in time “L” woke up and was ready to help me fix the situation. I also tried drinking tea, “Mothers Milk” that is supposed to help with increasing production. Unfortunately after just a few sips I got really sick to my stomach. Not positive that it was a result of the tea… but I wasn’t going to try it again to find out.
In the end I am relieved to have my milk back in full force. I hope to breastfeed “L” until she is a year old because of all the health benefits it will provide her… it also doesn’t hurt that it helps me to burn an additional 500 calories per day. Those pre-preggers jeans stare at me every day and I’m hoping it won’t be to long before we’re reunited.
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