Exclusive pumping takes about 1,500 hours a year, equivalent to 37 full work weeks. Beyond the time, mothers face constant stress managing milk supply, whether they have too much to store or worry about not having enough.
Waking up in the morning and you have a million things to do and you have to pump and you're so tired and you have to pump.
Depending on if you're combo feeding, if you're full-time exclusively pumping, definitely exclusively pumping, you'll be closer to like the 1,500, like you were kind of saying, number. And then it's like, that's like 37 full 40-hour work weeks.
And like, it really does feel like a full-time job because between the pumping and then like the milk management. So if you have a lot of milk, you have to manage all that breast milk. If you don't have a lot of milk, you're stressing about not having a lot of milk. So on both ends, you're just stressed out.
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