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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
What Not to do at a Sales Conference
Ok, for all you new mommies who have to go back to work, I write this for you. We have a great arrangement where my husband Eric stays home with Cassidy and I work, since I happen to have the better benefits. Well, that also meant that I had to go back to work three months after Cass was born. Never underestimate how hard that is, even if you leave your baby with someone you absolutely trust. I was lucky in that I could nurse Cassidy easily, and had been pumping and storing my milk for the full three months in anticipation of going back to work. Turns out the week I went back we had to attend a sales conference in CA. I live in OR. So i was gone for three full days from Cassidy which really is a kind of torture.
First let me say how pathetic I was. I carried around this little album of pictures that "talked". So when I pushed a button for each picture, I could hear her little cry that I'd recorded. I only burst into tears twice, and was able to escape to the bathroom both times. So here's the funny/tragic part. I'd been saving up all this milk for her so she wouldn't (god forbid) have to have formula. I just wasn't ready for that yet. I called home one day and Eric said she was running pretty low, and we might actually run out before i got home. (!!!!!!!!!) Now, keep in mind, I'd planned for this possibility. I'd called the hotel ahead of time, arranged for a box to be delivered to my room, so I could Airborne Express my breastmilk home. Yes, I brought the pump and stored it there! I also asked our event coordinator to make sure I had a refrigerator so I could store what I'd pumped. Finally, since I'd needed dry ice to send it, I called the local Albertsons' and arranged for the dry ice to be there.
Well, here I am, in a cab, on my way to Albertson's, all ready to Airborne my milk home. Tragedy of all tragedies, they actually RAN OUT of dry ice!!!! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find that stuff?? So I rode around in the cab for an hour, hitting every grocery store, Baskin-Robbins, and liquor store I could find to see if I could get dry ice, crying my eyes out the whole time! I never did find any, and Cassidy made it down to the last packet just as I got home. So the moral here is, don't panic! Cass drinks formula now, and even though I pumped for a full 8 months, she's now on solids and doing just fine. Formula didn't stunt her growth, she's obviously smart and healthy. As usual, it's always harder on mommy that it is on baby!!
Ok, for all you new mommies who have to go back to work, I write this for you. We have a great arrangement where my husband Eric stays home with Cassidy and I work, since I happen to have the better benefits. Well, that also meant that I had to go back to work three months after Cass was born. Never underestimate how hard that is, even if you leave your baby with someone you absolutely trust. I was lucky in that I could nurse Cassidy easily, and had been pumping and storing my milk for the full three months in anticipation of going back to work. Turns out the week I went back we had to attend a sales conference in CA. I live in OR. So i was gone for three full days from Cassidy which really is a kind of torture.
First let me say how pathetic I was. I carried around this little album of pictures that "talked". So when I pushed a button for each picture, I could hear her little cry that I'd recorded. I only burst into tears twice, and was able to escape to the bathroom both times. So here's the funny/tragic part. I'd been saving up all this milk for her so she wouldn't (god forbid) have to have formula. I just wasn't ready for that yet. I called home one day and Eric said she was running pretty low, and we might actually run out before i got home. (!!!!!!!!!) Now, keep in mind, I'd planned for this possibility. I'd called the hotel ahead of time, arranged for a box to be delivered to my room, so I could Airborne Express my breastmilk home. Yes, I brought the pump and stored it there! I also asked our event coordinator to make sure I had a refrigerator so I could store what I'd pumped. Finally, since I'd needed dry ice to send it, I called the local Albertsons' and arranged for the dry ice to be there.
Well, here I am, in a cab, on my way to Albertson's, all ready to Airborne my milk home. Tragedy of all tragedies, they actually RAN OUT of dry ice!!!! Do you have any idea how hard it is to find that stuff?? So I rode around in the cab for an hour, hitting every grocery store, Baskin-Robbins, and liquor store I could find to see if I could get dry ice, crying my eyes out the whole time! I never did find any, and Cassidy made it down to the last packet just as I got home. So the moral here is, don't panic! Cass drinks formula now, and even though I pumped for a full 8 months, she's now on solids and doing just fine. Formula didn't stunt her growth, she's obviously smart and healthy. As usual, it's always harder on mommy that it is on baby!!
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