Got Milk?

**Warning- this post is about breast milk**

I spend a lot of time every day thinking about feeding Stella.

I don't nurse her anymore,

but she still gets breastmilk.

That means that 4 or 5 times every day I pump.

I didn't realize how much work it would be to be an "exclusive pumper."

Some days it seems like a full-time job.

I've kind of gotten it down to a science though.

I try to pump at the same times each day,

and luckily I make more milk each day than Stella consumes, so I'm able to freeze some.

There are some herbal supplements that I take that help in my milk production.

I drink Mother's Milk tea 3 times a day.

And I also take another herbal supplement.

It's amazing how well they work.

Here is our freezer.

Each one of these ziploc bags has about a weeks worth of milk in it for the daycare.

I currently have 15 bags.

My goal is to freeze enough milk so that I can stop pumping

and just use our freezer stash to get her to her first birthday.

I think I'll be able to accomplish that by the end of May.

I hope!

People keep telling me that I should sell the milk.

I actually looked into it because I was curious and it goes for about $1/oz.

I usually can freeze around 100 oz per week.

That would be a nice part time job.

But I also kind of hate pumping, so I'm not sure that I'd really ever pursue that.

There is actually quite a market for buying breastmilk though.

Who knew?