The Race Is On!

Pat asked my the other day how pumping at work was going. It's not the typical question you get. Examples of typical questions may include:

• How was your day today honey?
• Did you feed the dog?
• What's for dinner?
• What do you want to do this weekend?

Not typical: How is pumping going.

This question among others are actually starting to find there way on the more typical list.

Another question he asked was, "What do you do in the bathroom while pumping?" First of all...why so many questions about the pump? Second of all...how do you expect me to do anything but sit and stare at the two suction cups I'm holding? Perhaps if I had another hand I could actually multi-task my way into doing something else while I'm strapped to an electical outlet!

That conversation got me to thinking about what I'm actually thinking about when I pump. In an effort to do something other than sit on the toilet and stare I've decided to make a race out of it.

Here's how it goes. Let's see which bottle, L or R, can fill up the quickest. L seems to always be more plentiful than R. Why is that? What I can I do to help the moral of R so she's not always lagging behind slowly making L wait until R's caught up. Is there something mechanically wrong with me that one is more productive than the other? Drink more water, eat granola, supplement with Fenelgeek (some herb that sounds too scary to consume) are the general prescriptions for increasing supply. Ok...I'll try drinking more water and eat granola for breakfast. Tomorrow is another day. The race is on!

This is what I've become.