Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 41
Ounces Used: 35
Surplus: 6

I ate a ton today (July 4th picnic and then barbecue) so I was hoping my pigging out would translate into a lot of milk. That didn't pan out. Oh well, still had 6 ounces left over.

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 40.75
Ounces Used: 35
Surplus: 5.75

I moved my mid-morning pump up an hour because we had a friend coming over. I think it hurt my supply a little bit.

Exclusively Pumping - The Ultimate Weight Loss Plan??

Like most new moms, I worried about being able to lose the baby weight. I gained about 40 pounds during my pregnancy and have never been one to lose weight easily. Nonetheless, I find myself today weighing 4 pounds less than I did when I got pregnant. I do eat well (kind of have to given my food situation) and we go for a lot of walks as a family but I'm not doing any hard core working out right now. So, I have to attribute a lot of it to pumping. Breastfeeding is known to help you lose the baby weight but I have to think that since I pump even more than he takes, that I'm burning more calories than I would breastfeeding the old fashioned way. Most days I have a 6-8oz surplus and if it's true that you burn 20 calories per ounce of breastmilk than I'm looking at an extra 120-160 more calories. Now if I could only shrink my tummy as fast as the rest of me....

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 42.25
Ounces Used: 36.5
Surplus: 5.75

Funny how obsessed you become with ounces when you're exclusively pumping. Just figured out that I've pumped 5,890 ounces since Little Man was born and he's used 5,049. That means he's had 315 pounds of milk. Wow.

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 42.25
Ounces Used: 36
Surplus: 6.25

Today was a rough pumping day. I usually get about 8.5oz at my late morning pump and I was only at about 6.5 after my usual 25 minutes. I kept going for another 15 minutes and only got to 8 total. Then, when I pumped again in the afternoon, I noticed that I had a spot that really hurt so I kept pushing on it and ended up getting about 9.5 but I did go about 5 minutes longer than usual. All said and done, I got close to my usual amount but spent way too much time pumping. Hopefully tomorrow will be clog free.

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 39.75
Ounces Used: 35.25
Surplus: 4.5

Slow day. About 3 ounces less than usual. Not sure what's going on.

Making Baby Food

Little Man is almost six months old. We've been holding off on starting solid food until he's officially six months and we also want to see what both his pediatrician and the allergist say at appointments we have with both in a few weeks. But that means we need to start getting ready. I always knew I wanted to make my own baby food but now that we know he has allergies, I'm even more motivated to do it. I'm not against jarred food and will always have some on hand, but I make all my own food and use very little processed food so why should Little Man get anything less. Anyway, I figured I should probably dig out our food processor (it's an attachment for our blender and had never been used so no risk of cross contamination) to see if it would work. I boiled a bunch of carrots and then put them in the food processor. Well, it took about a half hour to get them pureed and that included me mashing chunks by hand. No good. We definitely need a new food processor if we're going to do this. The end results came out pretty good but it took way too long. I'm thinking it should take about 30 seconds to puree about a cup of carrots. Now I need to go hunt for a decent food processor.

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 42.5
Ounces Used: 35.5
Surplus: 7

Back to my usual amount.

Today's Tally

Ounces Pumped: 41
Ounces Used: 36.5
Surplus: 4.5

My timing was a little off today and I had another clog this morning so it's not surprising that I'm down a little bit. Hopefully tomorrow will come back up.

Summer Summer Summer Time

That's my ode to Will Smith. Today we took little man to the pool for the first time. The water was way too cold for a baby but it was nice to get outside and he was fascinated with all the people and noises. And of course he looked adorable in his swim gear. I, on the other hand, was pretty uncomfortable in my swim suit by the end of the day since I pushed my afternoon pump back an hour so we could be out longer. Worth it though.