{"id":2086,"date":"2013-11-25T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2013-11-25T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:16:31","slug":"missing-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/missing-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, my ills took me to an all new mommying low, a place I\u2019ve never been in my ENTIRE mommying career:\u00a0 I ran out of milk.\u00a0 I know, I know, how did that happen when I\u2019m a hoarder?\u00a0 Well, my freezer is still sufficiently stocked but I ran out in my boobs.\u00a0 I knew that the 3+ days I was laid up on the couch I wasn\u2019t drinking enough water (I had trouble getting up to get it and when I did manage to drink some it made me sick to my stomach).\u00a0 It didn\u2019t bother Doodle until Saturday night.<\/p>\n

He took to constant nursing, fussing each time he would come off a breast.\u00a0 I was able to distract him for 15-20 minutes between before he wanted to try again and again would come off unsatisfied.\u00a0 I\u2019ve dealt with a lot of common breastfeeding problems from clogged ducts to cracked nipples to biting to oversupply but NEVER before have I not had enough milk.<\/p>\n

And honestly, I started to panic a little.\u00a0 I thought \u201cit\u2019s ok, I know it\u2019s just cause I need more water.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just give him a bottle before bed to get him through the night an drink a ton tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0 And I was okay with that thought for about a half hour while we did our nursing dance and then I got really emotional.\u00a0 A bottle was NOT the answer.\u00a0 Sure, it would have worked but it wouldn\u2019t have solved the problem.<\/p>\n

\"1459239_10200835193751687_935201746_n\"<\/a>\u00a0So I decided to do something I never would have guessed I\u2019d ever do:\u00a0 I asked hubby to let me have him in our room for the night.\u00a0 Doodle has been in his own room since August but we have kept the play yard in our room to use as a safe play place while I get dressed and such.\u00a0 Before we got sick he had been sleeping through most nights for a couple weeks.\u00a0 But when I stopped my water drinking, he stopped his good sleeping and with my \u201cgoing to pass out\u201d issue, it was really hard for me to get to him to feed him, even though I knew in my mommy heart that he was hungry.<\/p>\n

I figured if he was closer to me (2 steps from my bed versus 25 down the hallway), it would be easier for me to feed him when he woke and while sleeping though the night would have been nice, making sure my baby has what he needs for the next 6 months is much more important than one night\u2019s sleep.\u00a0 It actually wasn\u2019t as bad as I expected.\u00a0 Doodle woke up when I came to bed, about an hour and half after I laid him down, so I fed him and then he slept until 3:30 and then until 6:00.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to report that my extensive water drinking on Sunday quickly brought my milk production back up to where it needed to be and Doodle went back into his room last night.\u00a0 While I certainly would have given Doodle a bottle of expressed milk if our troubles had continued to keep him healthy and happy, I\u2019m so glad that I went a different direction and the issue quickly resolved itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, my ills took me to an all new mommying low, a place I\u2019ve never been in my ENTIRE mommying career:\u00a0 I ran out of milk.\u00a0 I know, I know, how did that happen when I\u2019m a hoarder?\u00a0 Well, my freezer is still sufficiently stocked but I ran out in my boobs.\u00a0 I knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}