Wowza, I don’t know if it was the change in cabin presure on the plane, now that I’m staying at altitutde, or the fact that Ryder ate a bottle on the plane instead of nursing, but my boobs are so full of milk, I might as well be a Holstein heiffer. My the end of the flight on Tuesday, my shirt was completely soaked – I mean, a bottle just dumped on my shirt soaked. But I figured I would get the boy to eat dinner and all would equal out. Not so.
The next day and my boobs are still rock hard and dripping all over everything. I had to break down and buy a “cheap” ($35) manual breast pump at Babies R Us because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to manage 10 days away from the Pump in Style.
The rock hard boobs and pressurized milk made for very difficult eating for a couple days, so I starting the manual pump process (which worked surprisingly well, btw). I got a whopping 5 oz. out of the left jug in just 10 minutes of pumping. I was psyched!
So, I’ve spent the last couple of days pumping at least once a day to get the boobs down to a normal size and Ryder is munching happily on his 3 hour schedule. I think we are finally back on track (3 days later).
