Pumping is ruining my life

Cheri

I might be a bit dramatic here, but I feel like everything is revolving around pumping. My daughter is almost four months old and she’s been on breastmilk since birth. I’m back at work full time now and my office has an empty room I can pump in, so it’s not a matter of inconvenience of doing the pumping. I know I’m lucky there. I hate pumping because it takes SO MUCH DAMN TIME OUT OF MY LIFE: cleaning parts repeatedly every day, multiple pumping sessions with time to set up and clean up, ugh! I produce enough milk but am sick of just doing it. It cuts into the little free time I have as a new mom and also cuts into my productivity at work since I have to get up every two or three hours to spend around half an hour doing the set up, pump, clean up thing. Im thinking it’d be so much easier to just switch to formula and be done with it all, and have more time back but then formula is crazy expensive plus I know my breastmilk is the best thing for her. I’m just resentful of pumping, I loathe when I have to do it, it gets uncomfortable for my nipples since my daughter has a strong suck when I breastfeed her at home before and after work (then the pump adds more aches). If anyone has any tips please please please send them along because I hate this so much it drives me crazy.