Hello, everyone! Sorry for the title haha I've never been good with them.
I have a three months old baby boy, Guilherme, and I'm currently doing my doctors degree; It's weird, hard, sometimes I just wanna give up everything and run to the mountains haha I joke, but it's manageable.
I recently got the opportunity to go to London for a week and a half, on the behalf of the University, everything paid by them. This trip will help me so much on my thesis, I really don't wanna let it go.
My husband is the greatest dad ever, he knows how to care of Guilherme very well (I know dads must know that, but Brazil - where we live - is a very misogynist country and most men don't care about their children), so I'm not worried about that, and he can always call his mom, or my mom if anything unusual happens haha
But here's the thing: I have a lot of milk, like a lot. My boobs went from small/medium size to large during the pregnancy. I leak, it's terrible, I have to wear those pads (or nipple diapers, as my husband likes to call them).
Breastfeeding is not a problem (it was in the very beginning, but after me and Gui got the hang of it, it was easy breezy), the problem is that if I go even 10h without breastfeeding, or pumping, my boobs hurt like a bitch.
If I go to London, I will spend 10 days without breastfeeding and I already dread it.
We never used formula, and we're not sure if we want to.
I know I'll pump as much as possible, but for how long can you storage it? I Googled it and it says three to five days in a refrigerator, and 12 months in deep freezer (of course it'll be used in much less than that - 10 days max.). Does this really work? I mean, is it good for the baby?
Another thing: while I'll be travelling, I will have to pump because otherwise my boobs would go rock hard and hurt, but this milk will go to waste; is there a place in London where I can donate this milk? I know there are maternities in Brazil that accept donations (the moms go there, sit and pump milk for the babies that don't have moms with as much milk - I go to one of these occasionally).
I'm not even sure if I'll really go. Sometimes I feel that people judge me just for doing my doctors while having a small baby, when I told some of my colleagues that I was going to go to London, I know that even though they smile and say it's great, they're judging me. I don't wanna anyone thinking I'm a bad mom.
The two people who matter the most to me are the most supportive of me, but still...
That's it, peeps! Thanks for the help!!
Submitted August 05, 2017 at 05:53PM by Tayane1256 http://ift.tt/2wuJD3d BabyBumps
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