Comments on: Detritus of a Plastic Civilization

By: suzyQ

suzyQ — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:18:05 +0000

Just getting over a particularly bad case of KIDS, myself. I’ll add that KIDS has been worse than BIDS for us. Now, I think my husband is getting sick with our latest creeping crud. I wish I could be as grumpy as he is when I’m sick!

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:44:33 +0000

I haven’t pumped in nearly 2 years and that Medela pump equipment is giving me bad flashbacks.

By: amy

amy — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:59:30 +0000

My 6-month-old is still a big fan of her milk, and I pump 3-4 times a day…we’ve got 47 storage bottles floating around (we use numbers to keep track of the freshness dates, v. elaborate system) and 3 sets of the pump paraphernelia. And boy, are we tired of washing! (one of the reasons we have so many plastic things is our hatred of the washing…we do the “leave soak” up to the point of borderline unsanitary…then we have to boil everything. no apparent illness yet, knock wood).

By: haeshu

haeshu — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:35:08 +0000

collette is eight months old and i am trying to remember when i ramped down to pumping just once a day at work. im still on the two pump schedule and once sounds so nice…

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:14:05 +0000

Baby Jake is 6 months old and I pump 3 times a day. Those plastic pieces are all too familiar right now.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:47:24 +0000

My daughter Sam won’t have anything to do with a bottle now at about 12 months. She was always breast fed, but we would supplement with a pumped bottle when my wife was unavailable. Early on we moved to juice and water in a sippy cup during meals.Last night while mom was out I tried to give Sam her bedtime milk in a bottle, the red sippy cup, the blue sippy cup, and finally just kind of pouring it over her face. Nothing worked, so I just put her to bed where she immediately went to sleep for 10 hours. Dodged that bullet, I guess.

By: Camille

Camille — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:33:20 +0000

Good read. I just have to say that I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with all of the pumping and storing and bottles. Sure, having a ravenous baby latched onto you gets old sometimes but the alternative is kind of scary.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:39:37 +0000

OK, so I really want kids at some point in the future, but this is not helping at all! I do extensive babysitting/nannying, and I can handle the multitude of birthing shows on Discovery Health, but this whole milk production process is still beyond me, and seems a little scary…
Nonetheless, I am excited to see what tomorrow brings!

By: haeshu

haeshu — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:27:19 +0000

the pumping devices look like medieval torture devices when they are devoid of context, and they feel like them too!

let us know your disposal plan, so we know what to do with all of our plastic too! looking forward to the next installment.

By: old school hannah

old school hannah — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:38:30 +0000

Yippee!!!! I love the milk stories best of all. You better hide that paraphenalia deep, deep, deep somewhere, maybe in Al Gore’s lock Box, deep like it all was in your subconscious, or Trixie will never get a sibling. Repress repress – you clearly know how. At least you haven’t lost your appreciation of Jenn’s “pumping prowess” – it never ceased to amaze me. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s installment!