Just Keep Pumping, Just Keep Pumping

It feels like it's been a year since I wrote the post on how Charlotte is six months old and celebrated breastfeeding for six whole months! It's only been two weeks since then...and I am tired.

Pumping during work hours is hard work. And I work from home! I admire all of you Moms out there who work in an office, or teach, or work shift work as a health care professional or public servant and still manage to pump for your babies. I am so impressed by you. How do you do it? I sit in front of a computer, in my home office (most of the time in my pjs if I'm being honest) and can pump while I continue to work...and I find it so hard to get it done.

My goal when Charlotte was born was to breastfeed her until she was a year. I hit six months and was getting worn down so I changed my goal. I'm trying to not be so hard on myself, take things a day at a time, and set my sights on one more month, then see how I feel. I'd still like to get to a full year but I'm not sure I'm going to make it. Help me out, friends! How do you find the motivation to keep pumping? I feel like as soon as I'm done with the first pumping session I need to set up for the next - and sometimes there is so much going on with work that I just can't step away to do it. Is that terrible? Are my priorities off? How do you do it?!

Do I need to add in a few pumping sessions when I'm not "at work." When you pumped for your children what was your schedule? Should I add in a pump before bed or something? Maybe that would take some stress off of me trying to get three pumping sessions in during the work day... Hopefully I can continue to find the motivation to get it done!

My new mantra for the rest of the month is Just Keep Pumping, Just Keep Pumping!