Got milk?

Okay so before I go on about how impressed I am i posted a couple days ago with people commenting me their opinions and what is right and wrong. I want to preface this post with respectfully i didn't ask and i have done my research.

Okay so now onto the happy part, i am 1 week postpartum after giving birth to my son at 41 weeks and 6 days. I ended up giving birth in the hospital when i was planning a home birth, last minute after 16 hours of laboring at home i ended up deciding to rush to the hospital. Which mind you the hospital is 23 miles away from home. We had everything for the birth part packed but not much postpartum care packed. I have a bunch of tools and stuff for breastfeeding and whatnot that the hospital just doesn't offer. Such as evening primrose oil, silverettes, silicone nipple guards, etc. etc. so when i was thrown into strictly feeding on a schedule instead of on demand like i wanted i injured my nipples while he was learning to latch day 1. He caught on really fast but within that first 12-24 hours my nipples were cooked. He was so sleepy he wouldn't open his mouth and in fact refused to causing me to struggle at first to get even a semi latch. They wouldn't let me leave without a wet and dirty diaper so i had to force myself through the pain because he went over 24 hours without a wet diaper but had soooooo many dirty diapers. We did get a wet diaper and finally got to go home.

Now with injured nipples and throwing absolutely EVERYTHING at healing all while still breastfeeding i turned to pumping a few times because i could handle the pumps suction between pain wise. I temporarily supplemented with formula and bottled breast milk at night and pushed through the pain during the day. It took until right now for me to finally heal enough to even relax a little bit during breastfeeding.

One thing i am REALLY proud of though is that i have a plentiful supply and i am so relieved i am producing enough for my baby and then some. I have gotten into a really good rhythm pumping on one side while feeding on the other side swapping sides each session of course and today was the first day i pumped 211mL and still had plenty to breastfeed him until he was full. I wanted to cry i was so happy i don't have a supply issue because i was really scared that i would if i somehow didn't heal.

My mother was an over producer as well and she only really pumped once or twice because she would just end up leaning forward until her milk emptied enough. That's the one thing i am unclear on is if over producing can be semi hereditary or not but gosh even if it's not i am just so proud this didn't prevent me from doing what i really wanted to for my baby.