I was given this card after the birth of one of my children and laughed because it'd never happened to me. Until the fateful weekend when my now ex-husband left the freezer door ajar while we were out of town; an entire grocery bag of frozen breast milk thawed and had to be tossed. My daughter was only a few weeks old and I screamed at him "That was all the colostrum, you idiot!!It's like liquid gold! I can never get that back! Never!" I sobbed for an entire hour, inconsolably. Perhaps my post-partum hormone festival had something to do with my reaction, but I still say that the loss of 100+ oz of breast milk totally justifies my hysteria.Friday, November 30, 2012
Spilled Milk
I was given this card after the birth of one of my children and laughed because it'd never happened to me. Until the fateful weekend when my now ex-husband left the freezer door ajar while we were out of town; an entire grocery bag of frozen breast milk thawed and had to be tossed. My daughter was only a few weeks old and I screamed at him "That was all the colostrum, you idiot!!It's like liquid gold! I can never get that back! Never!" I sobbed for an entire hour, inconsolably. Perhaps my post-partum hormone festival had something to do with my reaction, but I still say that the loss of 100+ oz of breast milk totally justifies my hysteria.
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Thanks for brightening my day, Leah! I certainly would have been inconsolable if this would have happened to me. It really is "liquid gold".
ReplyDeleteI realize that your divorce most likely had nothing to do with this incident- but that is where my mind went and I was giggling over the "ramifications of his actions in this case".
Well, thanks a lot. Now I'm mad at your ex...even though it was an accident. But, holy hell: a grocery bag's worth of breast milk? I. will. never. get. over. that. on. your. behalf.
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