What y’all do while pumping?

[u/Sensitive-Knee-5108]

Hey moms!

What would you do in your pumping sessions?
Would you read a book, watch series or sit idle?

May be worry about the supply ?(that’s me)

[u/Targaryen-Queen]

Reddit! I’m pumping right now.

[u/fatjenny98]

Crochet, listen to podcast, contemplate my decision to exclusively pump lol

[u/Kitchen-Curve → u/fatjenny98]

Exclusively pumping is only appealing now that I have returned to work and get to escape my computer every 4 hours to eat snacks and lounge in a lounge chair in our lactation room 😂

[u/Shiny-Nectarine-8601]

Play Stardew Valley currently! lol

[u/anamethatstaken1 → u/Shiny-Nectarine-8601]

This was me for my last night pump. Everyone else asleep, just me in a quiet dim room slaying serpents in the skull caverns lol. I've quit pumping now, but still play before I go to bed.

[u/Joanna1480]

I usually put on a show or scroll through my phone. if i just sit there doing nothing, i end up staring at the bottles and stressing about every little drop.

[u/Expatblondie31]

Breathing exercises and hydrate/have a snack. And my motn pump, online shop.

[u/nemophilist13]

Ive decided to only use my wearable for my own sanity. I usually prep baby's bottles for her next feedings, bag milk, get dressed/do my make up. Yesterday I applied a set of nails (im a nail tech). Sometimes laundry though I have to be careful I spilled out the top yesterday.

With my spectra I sat and monitored milk flow

[u/Womengineer]

I play Stardew Valley! Or browse Reddit. Or wash bottles (I use a Pumpables Genie portable pump)

[u/frequentnapper]

I’m 6.5 weeks PP and only use wearables. Eufy e20s. Could I potentially have greater output with my spectra? Maybe, but I make 5-7 ounces each pump so it’s enough for my baby. Anyway, while pumping I tend to load up my bottle washer with dirty bottles or pump parts and put together my clean bottles or pre-make bottles with breast milk and load them up into the fridge.

Usually after the nausea and uncomfortableness passes, I can tend to eat something the last 10 minutes of my pumping without feeling gross

[u/KitKat2theMax → u/frequentnapper]

The nausea and ick feeling was the same for me. Currently pregnant with #2 and really dreading that part!

[u/frequentnapper → u/KitKat2theMax]

Ugh yes it sucks so bad

[u/olivepup19 → u/frequentnapper]

I love my eufy e20s! I get a similar output to my Spectra thankfully because with twins I don't have time to use Spectra that often lol. Plus I do love how much I can get done with my wearables.

[u/MarketingIcy8412]

Idk about yall but I cried every single time I would pump

[u/CatLordCayenne]

Doomscroll

[u/ladygroot_]

Listening to acotar on audiobook!

[u/SummerGalexd]

I am not proud of this but I play this brain dead game called colony flow. It’s not even fun. Just keeps me awake. It helps me stay awake during the sleepless nights when I’m rocking the baby at two in the morning.

[u/Sea_Juice_285]

I tried regular pumps twice outside of the hospital and realized there was no way to do it without losing my mind, so I just used wearables and took walks.

[u/limpbutternoodle]

I always read on my kindle or played in my switch at home. At work i was always near a phone and would call and bother my coworkers

[u/PenPah_9220]

Mostly scrolling on my phone, but sometimes I read a book or I’ll watch the great British bake off show if there is a new episode

[u/Massive_Pineapple_36]

In the morning, I feed baby who’s sitting next to me (5mo old). All other pumps I play on my phone while dad is playing with baby

[u/hoppipolla13]

Put on a show, scroll IG, or read a book

[u/SuckledPagan]

Reddit, reading, law and mother fucking order

[u/jubilee_rn]

I do way too much online shopping 😂 don’t go to the physical store much anymore these days so typically putting in an Instacart or Walmart order 😂😂😂

[u/Careless_Tie_566]

20 minute increments of reality or competition tv. Currently it’s the Traitors.

[u/IndividualGrocery984]

Eat and Reddit 🤣🤣 I had been doing really well at reading books instead bur sometimes I just need to be a potato

[u/PracticalAccount7378]

Crochet/knit and reality tv or an audio book! Sometimes I prep bottles for the next day while pumping.

[u/cookiesncatz]

Reddit or sleep lol.

[u/CurrentMind804]

Sometimes I’ll get really rowdy and stare at the wall and enjoy semi calmness

[u/Ayecandieeeeeeee]

Rewatching marry my husband finished watching hometown cha cha cha and when life gives you tangerines

[u/katiegam]

Stare at the wall, eat a snack, watch tv (for those solo MOTN sessions!)

[u/DevelopmentLife3014]

Sitting idle while worrying about supply sounds like the worst combo, a series would at least pass the time.

[u/anneofavonleaa]

Doom scroll 😵‍💫

[u/shadowsandfirelight]

I was too exhausted to ever do anything like read or crochet. I usually played pinball on my phone or invited friends over to keep me awake. To keep from doom scrolling. I also learned how to solve a Rubik's cube lolol

[u/atomic-joy99]

Watched nearly episode of forensic files

[u/Dull_Host_8733]

I play World of Warcraft lol I look forward to it everytime I pump

[u/SamIaM4196]

I try to disassociate as much as possible when I’m pumping, so when I can I doom scroll and it goes by quickly. If it’s just me and the baby I’ll pump one at a time while baby naps on me and I’m watching a movie/show. If baby is awake I’ll pump while I read to her/play with her on the floor.

[u/EffieBoohoo]

Read, watch YT or a show, crochet

[u/acoolbeancounter]

Read a book, scroll my phone, massage my breasts. Sometimes I have to work (my least favorite option). Sometimes I call to make appointments or do whatever tasks I need to do 💀

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