Today, we hit up Target and it literally took two tote bags and an hour of planning to get out the door. Since last week, I've been pumping exclusively during the day. Partly to get ready for my return to work next week and partly because Liam wasn't seeming full after our nursing sessions during the day. By doing this, my milk supply has gone up (yay!), he is super used to the bottle now and the best part is that he is way more content. I still nurse him three times in a 24 hour period; at bedtime, his one nighttime wake up and first thing in the morning. So basically, i wanted to bring my pump on this little outing.
Holy hell.
Pumping requires a lot of bottle washing and planning. We had the adapter for the car, so i could plug it in, the pump parts, the empty bottles, the nipples and caps, the pump and one bottle of pumped milk ready to go. So.much.stuff.
But, i love that i can still give him my breast milk, so all of this is so worth it.
Anyways, we went to the bank first, where the teller decided to take a full hour to open a savings account for Liam. She thought he was cute. We thought she was slow and didn't realize we had a newborn, about ready to cry at any given moment.
I pumped on the road to Target. We got there, exchanged some diapers and sat down in their cafeteria area to feed Liam. We ate lunch. The food sucked, but we laughed at how much a baby alters everything. In the old days we would have gone out to a nice lunch somewhere, as those two errands would have only taken a few minutes. Now, it's about convince and time. This is the phase we're in, and we're enjoying it, as we know it will change as he grows.
Our outing of three stops took 4.5 hours, two diaper changes, and two pumping while driving and trying to be discrete so that every car pulling up beside us at stoplights doesn't see my boobs hanging out, sessions.
Parenting is totally hilarious sometimes.
Good thing our kid is cute.
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