Most people probably hop in the shower when the get out of bed in the mornings. Well, I’ve been giving myself an unintended shower for the past three mornings without even leaving the bed. Milk baths are good for your skin, right? Not that kind? Oh, okay. Um, yeah, so my boobs. Are like a faucet. I know that most women stop leaking profusely after the first few weeks of breast feeding, but apparently a select few with a milk supply that could shame a dairy cow continue to leak the whole time they nurse. Don’t get me wrong, I feel SO fortunate to have such a good supply, but the leaking is out of control at night. I have tried my best to use reusable breast pads instead of landfill-clogging disposable ones, but you know what? They don’t work. They’re too small and too non-absorbent for nighttime use. Who makes breast pads the size of a quarter? Seriously, let’s make some that cover the whole boob-ular area, shall we? And my boobs aren’t even big. They’re small, guys. I can’t imagine what a well-endowed chick would do aside from taping them on.
I can wear them during the day, but at night, I apparently roll around like a spaz and they come dislodged from my bra. So last night, back to the old stand-by Lansinoh pads. I woke up at 3 a.m. drenched. I was confused. I knew I used the “right” pads, and yet, I was still all drippy. Yeah, that’s what happens when you unlatch your nursing bra and FORGET TO FASTEN IT BACK. Awesome. So let us all remember that if you leave your boob hanging out, you’ll probably get milk sheets. Good thing we have mattress pads for times like this.
And by “good thing” I mean “it would have been a good thing if I had remembered to purchase one of those.”
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Ah yes! Things I do not miss about bf’ing are definitely waking up drenched with milk and never being able to find a pad strong enough to control the flow! Seems we females will always be stuck with some kind of flow we can’t control.
I have no words!
Totally remember the milk leak at night too. So jealous though that you can produce so much milk. I thought I was going to starve my baby to death with the little supply I could make.
the Medela disposables were my lifesavers.
this coming from someone with huge cans that put out over 60 oz per day.
yeah- Medela sposies is where it’s at my friend.
I’ve been bf’ing for 2 months now and I’m still leaking. I tried those re-usable lillypadz and found that taking them off required leaning over a sink to let the puddle of milk drain… messy!
This is hilarious. I nursed for 10 months and I leaked the entire time. When Parker started sleeping through the night I always woke up in the middle of the night engorged and with a huge wet milk spot on my shirt and the bed. The worst thing was that I had to squeeze and squeeze the get them less full or wake Parker up to nurse because the shower thing didn’t work for me. It was just one of those things that we endure as mommas.
I’d be putting washclothes in my nursing bra!
Come by when you get the “Moo Juice” off of you…
girl, i was the same way!! i can’t tell you how many times i had to wash the sheets because they were SOAKED! And munchkin started sleeping through the night at 3 weeks, so i had to get up just to pump a lot of nights so I wouldn’t burst! Oh fun times.
You need bamboo. Try Applecheeks or Bamboobies
Oh that is too funny. My sister was the same way. I stopped shooting milk by 6 months although I nursed for 19 months. Lucky babe you got there!
Wow, I cant believe they still leak! I stopped leaking a long time ago. One day I finally thought, WHY am I still wearing these darn pads? I tried a few types and always ended up spending more and using the Lansinohl ones. Theyre thin and absorbant.
As well-endowed chick I layered the reusable pads and the disposable ones
oy! Note taken… on future b-fing and on a reminder to buy a mattress pad! haha!