got (breast)milk? stories - 9 months

so, we survived two overseas trips quite well and i actually managed to bring back a whole cool pack of frozen milk thanks to a whole lot of ice and clever packing. it wasn't that fun spending lots of time in the hotel bathroom with my manual pump though, and having to share a room didn't make it easier. oh well. the main thing is that baby got the boobmilk she needed thanks to diligent pumping prior to the trips and also the frozen stash, plus i didn't have to pump and dump while overseas. yay me!

i don't think getting enough milk to meet baby's needs will be easy going forward, as i am back to REAL work and pumping at night takes up a lot of the time i have left after putting baby to sleep. so have started (just 2 days back) adding formula milk (trying out wyeth's S26 promil formula this time) to breastmilk for all of baby's feeds. had tried giving her formula only for one of her feeds but baby was too smart for that. she knew at once that something was different and refused to drink anymore of the milk after taking about 3oz of the milk (prob just enough to not be hungry). so now she gets 6oz of formula and 16oz of breastmilk a day. am also no longer taking domperidone ... so whatever i can't supply will have to be replaced with formula. 

hopefully i still have enough supply to last till she is 1! then i am definitely going to pack away the pump and RECLAIM MY BOOBS!