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Welcome to the Nursing Mothers group on Mayo Clinic Town Square
Employees and Learners Lactating | Last Active: May 17, 2017 | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I'm Jill. I have one daughter who just turned one last week. We live in Byron and my husband is a 4th grade teacher in the community. I commute to Rochester and I am a Pharmacist at the clinic. Both my husband and I are from Fargo and we have been living here for almost 6 years. The hardest thing for us is we have no family in town, so whenever we have visitors we try to take time away for a date night! I am very fortunate I have been able to exclusively breastfeed my daughter. Due to symptoms of possible dairy intolerance I cut dairy from my diet since my daughter was 8 weeks old. Thankfully she has started eating dairy with no issues herself and I have introduced it back to my diet. Yeah cheese! We are working on the whole milk transition now. My daycare provider thinks mixing whole milk and BM is gross and thankfully daughter is taking whole milk fine and I am still sending breastmilk to use up the small freezer stash I have. I am having mixed feeling about stopping. I am VERY ready to be done pumping at work. Recently I cut down to 1 pump session, and still nurse AM before work and evening to sleep. Incredibly thankful for a supportive work unit and access to a lactation room! I hope Mayo and the Rochester community continues to support nursing mothers. This has been one of the hardest but most rewarding things I have done. I agree with everyone the work life place is incredibly hard. My poor husband I admit I don't make enough time for him and have been at times obsessive over our feeding schedule. I am looking forward to more relaxed schedules and not having the constant feeling of when will I pump/nurse. I don't think my daughter is quite ready so we will see how the transition goes and will continue AM/PM for awhile. I couldn't have done this without supportive family, friends, and coworkers. I hope other moms use this thread to find help in their breastfeeding journey's and know they are not alone in the joys and struggles it brings!
How do you guys fit in working out? I admit I used pregnancy and then breastfeeding as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted and not work out but really want to fit this back in my schedule. Working full time and wanting as much time with my daughter as possible I don't know how to find the energy to fit this in.
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I am feeling the same way! I used to work out 4-5 days a week pre and during my pregnancy. I tried keeping that up on maternity leave as much as possible but it's been a challenge to work out now that I am back at work. On my lunch break, I eat and pump then the last half I walk in the subway to the DAHLC and back. I just found the stairwell by the Gonda elevators and am going to attempt that this week! I heard they even play music in stairwell. Even just a quick 20 minute walk, I feel energized. Do you have time over your lunch at all to walk or climb stairs?
I just dropped my last pumping session this week and now have a full hour lunch to myself! My plan is to use half of it to walk around the skyways downtown. Just got back from doing so and now I could use a nap 😉 I just joined a weekly challenge a friend is putting on through facebook for 5 min workouts each day. Day 3 and still sore from Day 1 of doing squats and lunges haven't done in 2 years. Ouch! But it is a start!
@jostby Thank you so much for joining the group and sharing. I totally understand everything you are going through. Sounds like you are doing an amazing job! I found the breastfeeding "stress" and balance to be very different the second time. With my first son it was way more stressful i was so worried about making enough and pumping enough etc. My body actually stopped producing at 8 months due to the stress of everything. With my second son it has been so much better. i am a more relaxed mommy this time. It is still hard and i still struggle with the balance but something about it is just better this time. My son is now 13 months and still nursing morning, and night. I pump 1 time a day now and am looking forward to weaning completely in the next month. As for working out i found out that i cannot do it because my production drops dramatically. I barely make enough each day for him. I never had a freezer stock because i just couldn't produce much. I must just be one of those people that every calorie counts when breastfeeding. I found that if i didn't eat enough i didn't make enough. I am really looking forward to weaning so i can get back into my fitness routine. I am not sure what others have experienced. Thanks again for sharing!