I'm Actually Having A Give-Away
Posted in mom central and tagged with contest, mom central on 04/30/2009 09:55 am by Jerseygirl89Ironflower has never been a big eater. When I went back to work when she was three months old, I only pumped once a day. I had to lock my classroom door and put up a sign, and sit there for most of my lunch, pumping with one hand and eating with the other. I missed talking to my colleagues. I hated the fact that I just had to sit there because I didn’t have enough hands to read as well (I did not teach in the kind of district that had TVs in each classroom, nor had Hulu been created yet). I spent three months staring at the world map to entertain myself. And I despised pumping.
Not only did it ruin my lunch period (and if you spent every morning trying to teach 24 hyperactive 6 year olds to read, you would value your lunches too), it was uncomfortable. Nursing was (and still is) easy for me. I rarely leak, my nipples only hurt after being bitten (why is it that we’re supposed to nurse for a year but the little buggers start practicing biting at six months?) and I make plenty of milk. But pumping is a totally different story. I don’t make a lot of milk for the machine, nor did I fit into my old one. I quit teaching the summer after Lovebug was born and I gleefully threw my pump in the closet. It didn’t even make the move.
I didn’t buy one for ChunkyMonkey. I saw no harm in letting him have formula for the rare occasions I wasn’t around. Except that he hated formula. All kinds of formula. In all kinds of bottles. Still, I didn’t want to buy a pump. Because I’m cheap. And I didn’t want to borrow a pump or buy one from Craigslist. Because that seemed weird to me. So I was just resigned to being with ChunkyMonkey pretty much all the time. Or hearing about how terrible he was whenever I left.
And then Mom Central said that Evenflo had a new breastpump that I could try for free, eliminating most of my pump issues in one swoop. The Comfort Select Performance Dual Auto-Cycling Breast Pump showed up on my doorstep, with it’s more effective cycles and BPA-free materials and stable bottle stand. I still don’t love pumping – who does? But now I can actually stand it. I am only sorry that I didn’t have this when I had Ironflower, because then I would have actually gotten to eat lunch after pumping.
But Mom Central didn’t just send me one pump – they sent me TWO. One is for me to GIVE AWAY to one lucky reader. You will get a great pump and four boxes of breast pads (two boxes were supposed to be for me, but I never have to use them. Go ahead and hate me.) IF you leave a comment here by midnight on Friday, May 1st. I will announce the winner Saturday. I will email the winner
Even if you’re not breastfeeding, it’s still worth entering the contest. I mean, how cool would it be to give this awesome breast pump at the next baby shower you attend?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I leak like crazy, soooooooo jealous but i don’t hate you. I have a pump that works for me but my friend just had a baby and I love to give it to her if I win. She is having a bit of a hard time right now. Maybe it would cheer her up.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Ooo! Me, me, me! I’m pump-clueless so it would be nice to have a giveaway pump
April 30th, 2009 at 11:32 am
First off, I loathe you for not needing pads. I have to have pads in all the time cuz I leak like a **insertbadwordhere**. I have to pump 4 times just at work or I will explode. Alas, I don’t have the joys of having the hungry mouth on me when I need it, so pumps it is. It’s so annoying having to take my pump home from work over the weekend though, if I want to do anything.
It’s not even just for the food-needs. Having bits of milk and breasts spray everywhere if they explode would be messing to clean up….
April 30th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Sure you give something away that is absolutely unusable by me. I don’t are how hard that thing sucks it ain’t pulling any nutrients out of these man boobs.
But best of luck to all of those in need of such a device.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’ll take it. Free shit makes me happy.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Oh! Good timing, I need that! I lost my old pump when my house flooded and I haven’t wanted to shell out the money to replace it.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Your story had me laughing because I had to do the same thing in the back closet of my classroom… I even had a parent walk in on me one day while I was pumping! This would be awsome to win!
April 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Lovin’ the giveaway idea!
May 1st, 2009 at 9:01 am
Please please please may I have a breastpump! My sister has a 5 month old little girl and she has just gone back to work. Like you, she battles with pumping and baby hates bottles! We live in a very rural part of South Africa, in a game reserve and we can’t get good quality pumps here at all.
Love the blog, very very entertaining!
May 1st, 2009 at 9:12 am
I hate pumping! Hate it! At the school where I work, there was no place to do it except in the teacher’s bathroom right next to the toilet. Twice a day for six months next to the toilet. Thank God my kid likes whole milk! (We stopped nursing at 11 months…)
May 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am
I would love a breast pump!!!! I borrowed my sister’s and would love to have one of my own…for the future. At 19 months, our little guy’s nursing days are behind him. I had to give it back to her at 9 months and make do without it–lovely!
May 1st, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I know the feeling… I lothe pumping (the time it takes, being sooo bored because you can’t do anything but pump with both hands occupied, and the pitiful amount of milk you get with a crappy pump because you were too cheap to fork out more than absolutely needed), but having twins, I have to break away every once in a while… so a nice pump would totally be awesome!
May 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I know exactly what you mean. I taught high school while I was nursing my oldest daughter, and, me-oh-my, did I hate pumping in my classroom. Aren’t they legally supposed to give you some “private” place to pump…one that’s not the bathroom and not easily accessed by massive key-ring bearing custodians who see that you’re pumping at your desk, try to avert their eyes, but yet keep sneaking peekaboos at your bubbies while they are emptying the trash can and resetting the thermostat on the wall…right above your shoulder? I would love a new pump as mine, alas, has seen it’s days. It was a hand-me-down to begin with, used on two kids, used on two other mother’s kids (I know, I know, you’re not supposed to share, but we got new tubes and all), etc. So, right now I’m just hanging on to it for spare parts. Whatever those may be.