Lactating

This is a fun subject, remember you are reading out of your own accord. Lactating.
Your boobs have been just boobs to you your whole life, until you become pregnant. Then they turn into the babies main food source. It is one of the strangest experiences of your life. All the sudden there is milk leaking out at all times, they have a mind of their own. They are almost like a kid you have to potty train and get to behave. Once you become a mother who chooses to breast feed your child, it is a whole other world.

I personally am a mother that enjoys the process and feels like it is such a natural part of being a mother. That being said, throw your pride out the window. I have never leaked on myself so many times in public. I'm the type of mother that has an ample amount of milk, maybe enough to help with the hunger problem in Africa. I have hugged people before and left wet spots. I was paying at target and felt something dripping on my foot, guess what it was. Yes, milk leaking through my shirt. How is that even possible?

This is a great story, read at your own risk. Right after I had Matisse I was in the hospital. The lactation specialists had come to see how I was doing. My milk had not come in yet. While she was there we were trying to feed her. All the sudden I started squirting milk out in every direction. This lady, I didn't even know her name, grabbed Matisse's head and put her on one boob. Then all the sudden, both boobs were just available to this random lady. She grabs a cup and starts to catch the milk coming out of the other one. I was in shock and just needed a second to myself , so I handed Matisse to her and got up. I have no clue what I was doing but I needed a second to regroup. I looked up to see myself in the hospital gown leaking milk in every direction. I mean if this is not a welcoming mat into motherhood, I do not know how else you would start it.

They say don't cry over spilled milk, but when you have made it yourself then you almost want too. It is a lot of work. That brings the subject of pumping, if you are a working mom then this is how you take care of business. It is the strangest thing, putting this machine on your breasts to extract the milk. Then you figure out which pump is best, which one you have breast pump envy over (you can tell by the carrying case). Certain breast pumps cost 300 bucks, which means you can do two boobs at once. That gets it done in half the time. Then there are the ones that have only one pump and you have to rotate, those are still 150. So very important to do your research. I mean this machine knows your breasts way better then your husband ever will.