by Leah
I used to assume the phrase "crying over spilt milk" referred to dairy milk, but now I know it must have originated with a breastfeeding mom.
During my pumping and praying saga, also known as The Struggle to Make My Boobs Produce Enough Milk, I lived in fear that I would accidentally perform that most dreaded of breastfeeding mom moves: the Milk Spill. When you work hard to pump, store, label, and sterilize multiple times a day so that your baby can have breastmilk when The Boobie Lady (my husband's endearing nickname for me) is not around, spilling some of that precious stuff is tear-inducing. On the parenting forum for my alma mater, threads about spilled pumped milk include graphic play-by-plays of the traumatic event, complete with phrases like "When I transfer defrosted milk to bottles in the morning, I behave as if I am a scientist in a lab handling the Ebola virus."
I used to assume the phrase "crying over spilt milk" referred to dairy milk, but now I know it must have originated with a breastfeeding mom.
During my pumping and praying saga, also known as The Struggle to Make My Boobs Produce Enough Milk, I lived in fear that I would accidentally perform that most dreaded of breastfeeding mom moves: the Milk Spill. When you work hard to pump, store, label, and sterilize multiple times a day so that your baby can have breastmilk when The Boobie Lady (my husband's endearing nickname for me) is not around, spilling some of that precious stuff is tear-inducing. On the parenting forum for my alma mater, threads about spilled pumped milk include graphic play-by-plays of the traumatic event, complete with phrases like "When I transfer defrosted milk to bottles in the morning, I behave as if I am a scientist in a lab handling the Ebola virus."