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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