Last week was a full moon (I think? I don’t remember exactly and I don’t really want to check… this is why I need to get back to journaling. You know in between the parenting) Well it doesn’t really matter when it was. It started two weekends ago.
I got a clogged milk duct in my non-slacker boob. It hurt like a motherfucker and also severely depleted how much milk I was giving. I exclusively pump so I know how much comes out each session and I track that shit because the baby didn’t gain weight in the first week of life and there is nothing more demoralizing or terrifying than your baby not gaining weight. So my milk supply was down. The milk duct unclogged and it was glorious. And then slacker boob got clogged.
And then the baby went through a growth spurt on the night of the full moon. Suddenly instead of drinking 750ml a day (a bottle of wine as my parents clock it) she was doing 950ml and my boobs needed to catch up. So I did what was suggested and tried to replicate cluster feeding while I pumped – anything to boost that milk. It took a couple days but by the start of this week we were getting there.
Up until this point I had not experienced any real leakage except maybe at night. But it wasn’t like I was sleeping that long anyway and I pump pretty regularly so the cups aren’t running over so to say. After this increase in supply though, slacker boob decided they’d had ENOUGH. They can’t go 2 hours without pumping and they will let me know in the form of leaking so much in 90 seconds my shirt is basically ruined.
The worst part is I don’t even feel anything. You’d think I’d feel something as all this liquid just comes dripping out but I don’t! I just feel wet which is the absolute worst. So I won’t know it’s happening until my shirt is absolutely destroyed. Thank god I’m not going anywhere in public.
I keep hoping that this is temporary cause it’s a fucking nightmare. And then I get another clogged milk duct and I have no choice but continue to pump religiously and a smidge longer to get it unclogged (because again it hurts like a motherfucker) and slacker boob takes it as a cue to produce more which would be fine except for the whole leakage issue.
So again I ask. When will my boobs stop leaking???
Millennial Parenting 