I always appreciated it when people came back here with updates after they experienced things. I was always a little anxious about the return to work, so here's my update on that. I am going to give you every stupid detail because I had to read ten threads to find tiny suggestions :)
Background - took 12 weeks maternity leave, and my LO goes to daycare now. I work full time. EBF
Here's my daily schedule usually:
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6:30am - wake up. If baby is awake, I will wake husband up and they will go to her room for play/diapers/clothes. If she is asleep, I will go set her clothes out and get started downstairs and he will wake up when she wakes up. Meanwhile, I get dressed for work.
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7:00am - get bottles ready for the day. They're on the boon grass drying rack from when husband washed them last night. I send 5 bottles, each has between 2-3oz in them. Her first bottle is smaller. One bottle usually gets sent home, and goes the next day. To wash, I rinse then soak everything in super hot water before I go to bed, then husband washes with Munchkin sponge stick thing and sits to dry. I use sanitizer once a week or so. I put her bottles in her lunchbox with a ice pack made for cans and put it in the fridge. I put pump parts in a ziplock freezer bag and into my pumping bag.
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7:30am - I feed baby. Husband gets ready for work. I get pump bag, car seat, lunch box, all into one place. Baby goes into car seat. Husband comes down and puts baby in car, i load up all the goods. Off to daycare.
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8:15am - I get to the daycare. Give them baby, bottles (tell them when she last ate). Leave daycare. hopefully get to work by 8:30am.
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10:00am - Pump round 1. Inside my pump bag is pump, ziplock bag with parts and 2 bottles, mini cooler, paper towels, bump bra and sharpie. I use the same 2 bottles to pump throughout the day, after the session, i pour the milk into freezer bags with labels. Parts go back into the ziplock bag, back into pump bag, into refrigerator at work. Milk in bag goes into little cooler, into fridge at work.
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1pm - pump #2. Get pump bag, pump, milk into milk bag, into little cooler in fridge. Bag back in fridge.
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4pm - pump #3. Final pump. Get pump bag, pump, milk into milk bag, into little cooler in fridge. Bag back in fridge.
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5pm - leave work. drive to daycare. Get her lunch box, has 4 empty bottles (hopefully) and one she did not drink is handed to me. Drive home. Milk cooler and bottle she did not drink go in the fridge.
I give fresh milk daily and am a few days ahead of myself. So baggies of milk are in the fridge, new ones in the back. The baggies make it so much easier because i don't have to transfer milk when i get home. Milk bags also make it SO much easier to swirl in the fat the next day. lay bag on its side, squish back and forth. Fat stuck on the side? Just push it away. In bottles, if fat gets on the side and I can't get it off, I have to get a fork and smudge it, try again, repeat until it's off. I want her getting the yummy fat so it's annoying.
All the gear with brands:
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Avent Natural 4oz bottles ( she refused bottles for a week, then decided not to starve)
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Up and Up milk bags
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Ameda Purely Yours Ultra Pump with their bag and cooler. I bought 4 more of their bottles, it comes with 6. If you use Ameda bags, you can pump straight to bag. Haven't tried that yet. Buy the extra parts kit for when you forget a piece at home, keep it in the car.
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Munckin sterilizer and bottle brush
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Medela manual pump - actually really nice, have used in the car when i have to travel locally for business. cooler with ice in the back, pump and milk go in cooler, repeat. Only done once but I was impressed.
Happy to answer any questions.
Submitted September 15, 2016 at 08:04PM by littlemissp23 http://ift.tt/2cAKqp8 BabyBumps
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