To non-breastfeeding mums out there, you might not know what “milk leave” means. To shopping mum, the definition of milk leave is taking day off to direct-nurse your baby in order to boast milk production and it’s every breastfeeding mother’s right. Chey, sounds great huh?
I’m on milk leave today. I called and told my principal I won’t tbe going to work, for two reason: Firstly, to breastfeed my baby, and secondly, it’s Jusco member’s day. I know the second reason sounds ridiculous, but there’re so many of my ex-colleages whom I bumped into today, taking day off to shop!
Ok, back to milk leave. I woke up at 7am with Justin, and my mother-in-law took him out for his morning walk. Normally I’ll quickly sterilize his bottles, prepare his expressed milk, change and go to work. But today, I was so relax and could go back to sleep until 8am. Then it’s time to nurse Justin. Normally Justin will take a nap after the feed, but today I think he sensed that mummy’s not working, so he was awake and we had a mum-baby play time. I felt really good about this as I sometimes feel guilty of not spending enough time with him.
After breakfast, I drove mother-in-law, Justin, maid and niece to the morning market. I haven’t done this for some time. When MIL was busy shopping, Justin and I spent some time waiting in the car. He’s so energetic this morning, it’s so unusual. I think he knows I’m not working today, and trying hard to stay awake. Maybe babies have instinct on this?
When we got home, Justin’s really sleepy already, and I nursed him to sleep. After he wakes up at noon, I quickly prepare his puree and feed him. He’s so happy to see me when he wakes up! I suddenly realised I only feed him once a week at lunch. My heart sank a bit knowing that I’m not spending enough time with him….
I nursed him again before and after his afternoon nap, then I went shopping with friends. I told MIL I’ll be back in time to nurse him before he sleeps at night, but MIL already feed him at 8pm and he fell asleep early. So I pumped the milk out for him tomorrow. And I got 5 oz of milk! It’s the first time this month, and I felt really great about my milk production which increased because I’m so relax today! And maybe it’s also due to the papaya soup my MIL had prepared.

I’ll have to go to work and things will back to normal again tomorrow. Hopefully I can get more milk leave like this. Or maybe I can just stop working and stay at home with Justin….I really miss my confinement days when I can just spend 24 hours with him. All working mums also feel like this, I think.

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