Pumpkins & Pumping

I am just sitting here hooked up to my breast pump at 7:00 a.m. hoping my father in law does not come walking up the stairs soon as the in-laws are visiting. I DO not exactly look like the lovely pictures I posted hooked up to this MILK machine. Kim calls me BESSIE!!! It truly is a lovely sight to see really! Kim tried to take a pic of me the other day and I kindly said no.....can you imagine Jack looking at that picture when he was 18!!!!
WARNING-try not to Blog and pump at the same time like I am. I just looked down and my right cup is full and my left is empty because I was hooked up wrong! Now I have to be on here twice as long!!!! and now my right breast feels like its going to fall off.
To DAVE my only male reader....I am soooo sorry you have to read this post if you are still reading that is!!!
I am an a bottle feeding new mother and now I am officially out of the closet! Not breast feeding your child in this day in age is pretty much a flippin' crime if you talk to some people and it is a really really sensitive subject that for some reason is not written about in books these days. When women cannot breast feed or simply choose not to its like we are evil mothers that are torturing our babies. It is supposed to be the most natural way to feed a baby but NO ONE tells you how hard and painful it can be and how often it simply does NOT work for people. It did not work for me at all. My milk did not come in for a few days and Jack decided that he preferred to eat the skin off my nipples rather than latch properly. I contacted lactation specialists that tried to help me MANY times but it simply was a disaster. I could often be found trying to nurse Jack propped up by a gazillion pillows, bawling and crying huge tears that would fall on his tiny little head. I would basically be in fear when it came time for him to nurse....it was a disaster. Now I pump and supplement with contraband known as formula and guess what he is still alive and actually thriving!!!
I decided to come out of the closet about my bottle feeding and no longer be "ashamed"of my decision after reading my favorite bloggers recent post. Check it out HERE. After reading her post I sent her a message over on Facebook and she sent me a really great message that made me feel good about my choice. She is thinking of starting a support group for us banished bottle feeding mothers.....I am going to be the 1st to join hahahha!!!
On another note we shoved Jack in a pumpkin yesterday and took a few HAPPY HALLOWEEN shots that he clearly LOVED!!! Sorry for the blurry photography its just that he was SO upset I was shooting so fast I did not check my settings. Poor little man!!!