July 25, 2006

Pain at the Pump

Dim and I are going to dinner and a movie on Saturday. As adults! With no baby!

Mom and Dad (Grandma and Daddoo) are going to babysit. (Dad: "Sure, I can come sit on your baby.")

Aaaaand, because you don't hear enough about my breasts, I have to start pumping this early in the week to set aside enough milk for us to leave the baby for an evening. I find it very interesting that my body can feed a child and keep her healthy, but the dairy-farm-grade pump I rented from the hospital can only get an ounce at a time out of me.

I've read that some women are good pumpers, and some are bad pumpers. I think I am a bad pumper who gave birth to an efficient little Hoover.

Posted by Jen at July 25, 2006 8:02 AM
Comments

Maybe it's the pump and not you. You can always make a trip out to the good old Anderson Dairy Farm. They might be able to hook you up to some heavy duty equipment!

Posted by: mom at July 25, 2006 9:44 AM

Black-Eyed Beans new song:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/My-Humps-lyrics-Black-Eyed-Peas/A03069D1CAEDF1A148257013000F75FD
Where you and Dad goin’, without my junk,
My baby junk in the diaper trunk
Better get, get, get, get out that pump
Get me some supper or I’ll be a grump
Your pump, your pump, your pump, your pump, your pump, your pump
your pump, your pump, your dairy-farm-grade (Get it out)

What I gon' do wit out that breast?
All that breast with milk to squirt?
I'ma make, make, make, make you work
Make you work, work, make you work.

Posted by: John at July 25, 2006 10:36 AM

Jen - Congrats on getting out! Have fun!

and John, that's hilarious!

Posted by: Nicole at July 25, 2006 4:21 PM

I had the same issue...pumped only an ounce or two when I first started pumping. Then it shot up to like 4-6 ounces, then, when Ian was 5 months went back to 2-3 ounces.
Ah...nothing like being hooked up to the pump...if you ever wondered what a cow felt like during milking.... ;-)

Posted by: Lisa at July 25, 2006 6:28 PM

mrs. mctwitter the babysitter, i think she's a little bit crazy. she thinks the babysitter's supposed to sit upon the baby.

shel silverstein is a genius.

Posted by: kat at July 25, 2006 7:18 PM

My brother is a genius too. Very funny John.

Posted by: susan at July 25, 2006 7:25 PM

I am a genius in the same way that Wile E. Coyote is a genius.
http://www.animationartwork.com/artwork/sku2463

Posted by: John at July 26, 2006 9:35 AM

So how did it go?

Posted by: Brian at July 27, 2006 10:57 AM