I was distressed. I had a 5 week old baby who I was desperately trying to nurse, and I had strep throat. As if that wasn’t bad enough, my doctor was telling me before he’d prescribe me the antibiotics, I had to promise to ‘pump and dump’. If you’re not familiar with the term pump and dump it means to pump your breast milk to maintain production but dump it out so that the baby doesn’t get sick from any medications you’re taking. It is twice as much work and furthermore I knew, that if I bottle fed my little … Continue reading →