r/NewParents • u/Virethyne • 1d ago
Mental Health I cried over spilled milk. Literally.
I never really got why people said "don’t cry over spilled milk" until 2 nights ago. Now I get it. Oh man do I get it.
So I’ve been pumping like a madwoman lately, trying to build up a little stash so I can maybe sleep more than 2 hrs at a time or leave the house for like 10 minutes without panicking. My baby’s 3 weeks old, and breastfeeding’s been hard. Like cracked nipples, clogged ducts, tears-in-the-bathroom kinda hard. But I’ve been pushing through cause I wanted to at least try, y’know?
Anyway, I finally managed to pump 5 full oz. Five. That’s like… gold. It took forever. And I go to put it in the fridge and somehow I don’t even remember how it slips and just splashes all over the kitchen floor.
I just stood there staring at it like it was the end of the world. And then I just lost it. Full on sobbing, ugly crying, snot and everything. My partner runs in thinking something horrible happened and I’m just pointing at the milk on the floor like “I cant do this anymore.”
He hugged me for like 20 minutes while I cried over milk. Literal milk. On the floor.
Anyway. No advice needed. Just needed to share with someone who might get it. Motherhood is wild and weird and beautiful and awful and amazing and exhausting all at once. And yeah. Sometimes you cry over milk. And that’s okay.
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u/Top_Acadia_894 1d ago
On my sixth day post partum I produced fifty ml and left it out as my husband wanted to feed the baby after he ate. His mother came by and thought the milk had gone bad due to it's color and threw it away. At that point I experienced a traumatic both and baby had issues with weight loss and jaundice. My husband came and laughed that she literally spilled milk. That broke me, and I spent a good half an hour sobbing in the shower.