I'm still pumping my milk for Elias, and we're doing great with that. I had a discovery today, though, that I thought was too funny not to share. I keep track of my pumping on a spreadsheet (Yep, major nerd!), and so I have a record of all my pumps since I started tracking in the middle of August. So September is the first month that I have the full data for. Out of curiosity, I totaled it up to see how long I spent pumping for the month. Oh my.
In the month of September, I pumped 7,672 minutes,
which equals 127.9 hours,
which equals 5.3 days!!!! DAYS!
I spent almost 18% of the month of September pumping! (If I had kept track of how many hours I slept, I would be able to figure out what percentage of my waking hours was spent pumping... That might be too depressing to know that, though...)
I pumped 727 ounces in those 5.3 days, though, so I think that's worth it. LOL! Just had to share.
4 comments:
Wow, I hate pumping. I still do it, but gosh, couldn't do it that much!
How is rice cereal going?
That is amazing... what do you do during pumping to keep from getting bored? I can barely do it for 10 minutes.
Jackie, for my first and last pumps of the day, when my boys are both asleep, I sit on the couch and read. It's nice to have such a peaceful quiet time to relax and read when the house is dark and quiet. I do my quiet time during the second pump. Then for my other pumps, I bring the pump to the computer and pump while surfing. I would never have time to email or blog if I didn't have the pump making me sit still for that long!
Karen, we haven't started the cereal yet. We've been messing with his schedule (dropping the 10pm dream feed), so I wanted to wait until we were done with that. He's on his new schedule now, so I'll probably start the cereal on Monday. I'm sure I'll post about it!
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