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The only reason I stopped was this saying popping to my head.

I remember when I started and how stressed and tired I was. I had ppd and painfully swollen breasts. And then one night I kicked the container that didn’t have the lid on properly and when I reached down for it as an instinct, the milk from my breast shell also poured onto the floor.
I acted like somebody had been murdered. I don’t think I ever felt that devastated over a small accident. I never cried out loudly.

Since then I kicked, pushed over containers left and right, broken the glass baby bottle full of fresh milk twice, slept through alarms, broke 3 of my pumps, had to do power pumps to save my butt, go through God knows how many milk fevers I had to take antibiotics for (1 I almost died in with a fever of 40C / 104F) and haven’t been able to properly go and do activities outside my pumping chair or sleep through a night.

I learned as I went. Now I’m at 13 months :) I’m proud to say, eventually I got the hang of it and now I have a solid routine that actually works for me. I was originally gonna stop at 6m which then turned into 1 year, but now I think I’ll take it to 18m. That was a goal I always thought would be the perfect amount but never had the guts to dream of.

And it all thanks to that stupid f*ing saying :D Countless times it slipped into my mind and dad jokes always annoy me just the right way to remind myself “it’s never that serious to destroy yourself over”. Pumping is a luxury and I’m very grateful I got to do it for so long, but if I could start over, I’d definitely stress much less about “completing it”. My baby needed me more than the milk at the end of the day.

I guess what I’m trying to say is:

Take good care of your mental health ladies, just as well as your physical! ❤️

I’m tryna binge.

I’ve seen all of the show as the episodes are coming out. That said, it’s been a long time…maybe. You see, I can’t remember the episode where they resolved that issue. I remember it happened, but not the hows and whens.

Can someone, please, recap for me quickly?🙏