Wordless Wednesday – Crying Over Spilled Milk
October 17th, 2007 by Alicia
crying over spilled milk, originally uploaded by sam&bex.
Today I was finally strong enough to rid the freezer of 58 ounces of liquid gold. With the average freezer shelf life (not a deep freeze) for breastmilk being 2-3 months, this stuff from March and April was not even usable. Beckett refused the bottle until he was almost six months old, so my stash of milk I had pumped in the first six weeks of oversupply just sat.
But there’s an attachment that only another nursing mother can understand and I could never bring myself to throw it out until now. I needed the shelf space for the next stage of food, and in essence, stage of life. Next on the list: bury the placenta.
I understand…nice stash of bm, btw! It must have been hard chucking that…
That makes me so sad to see. It reminds me of the few times where we come home from a weekend up north or a normal outing with a full 5oz bottle of milk in the diaper bag. Then I’ll ask D hours later when I think of it if he put the milk in the ‘fridge like I asked and when I find the bottle spoiled in the diaper bag I get super upset. And that is only over 5oz! I can’t imagine having to throw away that much milk. :[
Wow…look at all that milk! It would break my heart to throw it all out, knowing how hard you worked to get it!
My friend has 2 placentas in her freezer – one from her 1 and a half year old, and one from her 5 year old! She keeps them in there mostly due to a lack of a spot to bury them…as well as for the shock value I think!
Oh sweetie — I am so sorry!! We actually bought a deep freezer to specifically store milk and are just NOW getting through the April stuff. Amazing — when you are prepared, you don’t need it. If you aren’t prepared, you will be screwed!
I’m sorry babe I know how hard you worked to get your stash stocked up. I also know how brutal it was emotionally to get also.
One day we’ll bury the placenta
Ack! I totally feel your pain. It would make me want to cry to throw all that out too!
As a mother of 4 I remember when I finally realized that all that frozen breastmilk was never going to be used. Soo sad!
I totally understand! Breast milk is liquid gold when our babies are so little.
I can relate! I recently had to toss around 50 oz. that were left in our freezer as well. I waited until it was well past expired because it was so sad to see it go down the drain!
I totally understand. That’s alot to have to throw away
Oh boy, do I understand. I’m about to tackle that emotional feat soon. I don’t have room for anything else in the freezer anymore. I have nearly 600 oz from the past few months and E is never going to drink it before it expires – she never leaves my side. I’m hoping it’s not too late to maybe donate or something.
Jayna — WOW, 600oz!! How in the world did you find time to pump that much? I am amazed! I bet you could donate it. I would have but the place I talked to said I had to have at least 100 ounces.
I can relate! My first born had trouble nursing so I pumped for 3 mos, I tried giving the milk away to our local milk bank but they didn’t need it either. Liquid gold is right!
Happy WW
That would kill me too. I had a lot saved up after having Short Man (that he didn’t drink) but we were blessed that it did not have to go to waste.
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Aww, I understand mama!! I can’t imagine throwing all that away! I haven’t even frozen any this time around–i threw soo much away w/ Ashlee (she refused the bottle as well!), that I learned my lesson. McKenna still won’t take a bottle, and my supply sucks this time round–so no extra milk!
I feel for you, my daughter wouldn’t take a bottle until she was 6 months old so I tried to save BM but it would have to be tossed too. HUGS!! I agree, it is ahrd to throw something away that you worked so ahrd at getting
GULP! That would be so very hard to toss that out. SNIFF! SNIFF!!
BTW….lovin’ the new graphic!
wow. I am just in awe that you were EVER able to pump and produce that much milk. I had a less-than-successful bfing experience this first go-around (I’m hoping to have better luck next time!) and my best pumping session ever was like, 3 ounces I think. And that took me over half an hour to get. I could only have dreamed about having that much in my freezer!!! So I can totally understand how hard it would be to just throw it away- every drop for me was precious!
Oh my, that would make me sad too, to have to throw all of that away – it’s hard enough to pump so much! Happy (late) WW!
OMg.. i hate to see BM thrown out!!! But.. Yay that you didn’t need it!
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