Back milk for 4 months, hiding in the toilet to suckle I want to cry...

Every breastfeeding mother is not easy, they are determined to adhere to their own breastfeeding path against all odds, so what kind of hardships and helpless things will be encountered in the process of breastfeeding? How do moms face it?

Today's topic

The helplessness encountered by the mother of the back

@Ann Tsai

After 4 months of breastfeeding, I have heard all kinds of doubts and often doubt my choice, I want to say that breast milk should not become a shackle to kidnap mothers, and milk powder is not an excuse to condemn mothers. Back to the milk or not, the mother's starting point is love. I've been carrying milk since I started working in early July, sharing my story of carrying milk.

1. Hide in the toilet and suck the milk, and after sucking the waist, you will be wasted. The company does not have a mother and baby room, and can only go to the toilet with the milk bag, the milk bag hangs on the hook of the toilet, and the breast pump is placed in the compartment of the milk bag. Holding the bottle in one hand, he looked down at the scale. Since I don't have much milk, I have to squeeze for more than 30 minutes at a time to suck about 110 ml. In the small and smelly toilet, stand for half an hour. After sucking the milk, the whole person's neck is sore and his waist is sore, which is particularly uncomfortable.

2. Face the "different" eyes of your leading colleagues. When washing bottles in the pantry, unmarried and childless colleagues will ask: What are you? Some male colleagues pointed to the motor of the breast pump and said: Hey, your "stereo" looks good. The most embarrassing time is when I go to milk the cow or come back from milking and meet the leader. Every time she would say: Ah, 9 months still crowded, feel so troublesome and so on. Maybe she said it unintentionally. But in my opinion, the subtext is "milking at work, wasting time". So every time I have a sense of frustration, thinking that my previous self would never get this kind of evaluation, I feel quite speechless for a while. In order to make myself "conscience passable", every day I will consciously work overtime or try to do as many things as possible. Even every hour of breastfeeding leave was given up. In fact, from pregnancy to the end of maternity leave, I did not miss a job, but in order to "make up" for the time I wasted milking in the company every day, I often worked overtime to share the work of my colleagues.

3. The warmest moment of breastfeeding. In fact, during the time of breastfeeding, I also encountered a lot of heart-warming things. Once, after milking, I found that I forgot to bring a milk storage bag! I complained in my mother's group, and my friend who lived nearby saw it and asked her family to send me over. At that time, I was really super moved, and I felt that only my mother could understand my mother.

4. I want to continue to carry milk. For working milk mothers, it is not easy to insist on carrying milk. Sometimes it is not convenient to milk the cows when busy, the milk is naturally less and less, and the family will only accuse: otherwise it will be broken, there would have been no nutrition... Looking at the milk I brought back, my family would also say: It's so thin, it feels like water... I don't know how many times I've heard this, but these questioning voices are the most debilitating than the pressure of work and backing. Sometimes I also feel guilty and blame myself for why there is so little milk. Sometimes I also think that I have to keep calculating. But I think of the little man who suckled in his arms, think of that warm picture, and always want to hold on to it for another time. In fact, I don't want to give up, and I don't want to waste even a drop.

Perhaps only the back-to-milk mothers can understand the meaning of persistence. Back to the milk, I want to say: mothers do not have to be harsh on themselves, go along with their own wishes, breast milk or eat milk powder is love. I have a lot of milk powder babies around me, the meal is very fragrant, and the body is also very good. Sometimes moms have to learn to let themselves go... Well, back milk moms come on

@No roll mom

My breast milk from the birth of the roll sister to her one-year-old weaning, during the period is pro-feeding + bottle feeding + back milk, today to talk about some embarrassing little things I have encountered because of breast milk, although it is not a serious thing, but it is really very impressive.

The first time, borrow the doctor's office to feed. When the roll sister was tired of milk, there was a time when she was very picky and feeding position, she did not want me to hold her to feed, only willing to lie on the bed and I leaned over to feed her. One day I took her to the hospital to do child care, because the waiting time was a little long, and before it was her turn to drink milk, I went to the mother and baby room to feed her. But the mother-and-baby room only had a sofa to sit on, no bed, and after I tried it a few times she wouldn't let me hold it and feed it.

What can I do about this, I have swollen milk again. It's a little too long to get home. So I had to knock on a female doctor's office and tell her why. She expressed understanding and asked me to feed the roll sister on the examination bed in the examination room, and she continued to be busy with her work, and I was really embarrassed at the time, and quickly finished feeding and thanked her.

The second time, she quietly sucked in the back seat of the customer's car. This matter is a bit of a social death, and colleagues are on a business trip, departing from the hotel in the morning, and have not returned to lunch time.

What to do, the milk is swollen. We were in a wasteland and there were no restrooms around. With so many people together, I was embarrassed to have someone drive me to the bathroom.

After experiencing milk blockage, I was more afraid of swollen milk. So I decided to suck in the back seat of the client's car, covered by my colleagues. One of my colleagues was talking to a client, and another colleague helped me block aside, my small breast pump in my bag, and then I was desperate to find out that I had brought the accessories for the breast pump, but not the collection bottle. That three-way frame can't produce that much suction without a bottle.

It was really a bit desperate. Fortunately, my colleague said that she had a bottle of mineral water in her bag, and after pouring the water, it could be used as a collection bottle for a while. Although the size of the bottle is completely incorrect, it will not flow to the customer's car while sucking. In such an environment, I sucked some of the milk out, relieved the pain of the milk, and finally survived. In retrospect, I feel embarrassed.

The third time, the suitcase was left in the airport mother and baby room. This thing is more thrilling, think about it is a bit unbearable to the nervous emotions at that time. And the leader of the business trip to prepare to return to Shenzhen, at the local airport, more than half an hour before boarding, I thought about the time on the plane to 3 hours, in the bathroom pumping is not convenient, I want to empty and then get on the plane.

So I asked the leader to wait for the plane first, and I went to the mother and baby room. I was pumping in a cubicle inside, and I had a handbag and a trolley suitcase with me. I kept my suitcase in the corner and the breast pump in my handbag. After pumping for about 10 minutes, I went out and washed the bottles and accessories at the tap, then I put them in my handbag and hurried to board.

The leader had already boarded the plane before me, but fortunately our seats were in a row, and he saw me coming up and asked me, what about your suitcase? I was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat at that moment, Oh my God, what about my box? Then I remembered that I was still in the mother and baby room!

So I got off the plane immediately and explained to the ticket inspector that she told me to hurry up and say that the doors were about to close. Fortunately, instead of taking the shuttle bus, boarding the plane directly from the boarding gate to the covered bridge. I disembarked smoothly and returned to the departure hall. At that time, the whole person was terrified, on the one hand, I was worried that the suitcase would be taken away, because my office computer was inside, and on the other hand, I was worried about delaying the flight.

Luckily, I returned to the mother and baby room to find that my suitcase was still in that corner, I quickly pulled up the box and ran back to the boarding gate, at this time it was basically over the boarding, I re-checked the ticket, hurried back to the plane, as soon as I sat in place, I heard the radio notification that the hatch was closed, it was really a few minutes late, almost causing a big mistake.

The experience of breast milk on the road is still very rich, all in order to ensure the amount and continuity of breast milk, afraid that the baby will not drink enough, or will return the milk if it is not pumped out in time. Although it is very hard, but insist on feeding the roll sister to the age of one, looking at her cute look, I think it is still very happy.

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