Confessions of an Exclusive Pumper

Bottles. Wash rinse sterilize repeat. Times infinity. This is the life of an Exclusive Pumper. Because every time baby eats there's two bottles to wash.

Oh were you excited to sleep on your belly? Nope nope nope! Cause you have sore nipples. All. The. Time.

Reading instructions of breast milk storage so many times that you could write the manual yourself, check!

Feeling like an ugly milk cow while your nipples get vacuumed? check!

...(Not to mention the floppity boobs post-pump session)

Getting flack from both sides about your choice- because apparently all this sacrifice still isn't enough for the Nazi lactation consultants who try to convince me that I need to actually breastfeed not pump. Like wtf? You think I wanted to wake up every 3 hours to pump and-on a good night-every 45 minutes to feed him for the first 2 months of this kids life? Obviously nursing would make my life easier so please back off *makes mustache over lip sign with middle finger*

...Then the judgy looks when I give my baby a bottle and people assume it's formula...

Waking up with painful watermelons for boobs the first time I got a full 7 hours sleep...

Exclusive pumping- the worst of both worlds. But trying to do what we think is best for our kiddos. 💙💚💛💜