First time pumping in 9 months

Back at work after a week and a half at home with Johnny, by lunch time I had gone up three cup sizes and pulled out the breast pump. I haven't pumped since the contaminated shipment to the IBMP a good 9 months ago.

Back then, there was lots of fore milk and if I kept pumping I'd get the hind milk out and there would be about 8% volume of cream which settled on the top. I've read about how milk gets creamier as you nurse for longer, but yesterday was quite a surprise. Given the engorgement, I was expecting about 4 oz of fore milk on each side, so you can imagine my surprise when it took me 20 minutes to get 2 oz out of each side and it was almost exclusively hind milk! Even after 4 hours in the fridge, the cream had not settled up to the top.

Johnny never really drank expressed milk except for maybe a month from 9-10 months when he could do his bottle himself. It was quite a surprise then to watch him positively chug the milk down in the car, not a drop spilled. (This from the boy who delights in upending open cups!) It has inspired me to keep pumping for him.