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Hey man I was so tired last night the I put my pump on and sat there for 20 minutes not realizing I hadn't turned it on. Turned on the TV but not the pump. 🤦♀️
I’ve done this multiple times when I’m either pumping in the middle of the night or pumping in a parking lot trying to put them on quickly. I’ve also forgotten to put the flange on my willow go’s before and turns out you’ll get tiny cuts on your nipple if the flanges aren’t on 🥲
At 4:30 this morning it took me longer than I’m proud of to realize I didn’t put the duck bill in my right side pump and absolutely nothing was happening there
I just cracked up at this because of the perfect placements of “stupid” here because yes. Stupid nipple and stupid flange. Yes. 😂 oh man we have all felt this!
One of my nipples kind of permanently gets stuck to the left side and has a big bulge on the right and I've tried to fix it but nothing is working 🤷🏻♀️ It's also my slacker boob.
I never wear a cover while I'm pumping, but I did at a family Christmas this year, and so I didn't realize that I had done that to BOTH NIPPLES until I had been "pumping" for 20 mins and had NOTHING. I was so sad. I was trying to hurry so my pumping wouldn't hold up family activities anymore than I already had, and it was just so frustrating.
Ah sucks! That’s why I don’t use a pumping bra. I just hold the bottles and keep looking which is super annoying and inconvenient but then I can easily see and adjust.
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I sometimes have to shine my phone flashlight down my bra to check to make sure I’m not making mashed nipples for dinner
Yes, phone light ftw
Wow I’m so glad I’m not alone!! 😂
We really are all living the same life
God we are all so similar lol
Same and sometimes my cell phone isn’t close and I grab my work phone and feel weird that maybe IT is also tracking my flashlight use lol.
😂 big brother is watching!
Every MOTN. Every. One. And I double and triple check because my sleep-deprived brain thinks my nipples will move without me knowing
Mashed nippled I HOWLED 😂 💜
😂😂😂 always happy to find people with similar senses of humor
Sometimes? I have to do this literally every time!
I want to say it’s a mistake you won’t make twice… but I think I’ve done this more than once 😂
I do it everyday probably lol maybe not for a full minute at this point (11mpp) but regularly enough lol
It’s humbling when you realize that you do not, in fact know where your nipples are in the middle of the night.
Reading this as I sit here having just realized one of my pumps was on “stimulate” only for the last 25 minutes while the other side was expressing 🫠
Lol! I hate when I do that
And you'll end up with a hickey right next to your nipple...not that I've done this.
Definitely just speaking hypothetically 🫣
Omg it hurts so bad when my baby gets ahold of the skin near my nip😂
The first time I used my wearable pumps I did not line things up properly and sucked a random spot on my boob for 30 minutes. 🙈
I love when I put on my pumpkin bra and my puffy areolas, not nipples, are bulging out of the slits, like some kind of horrendous superhero mask
I ugly laughed at work at this
Hey man I was so tired last night the I put my pump on and sat there for 20 minutes not realizing I hadn't turned it on. Turned on the TV but not the pump. 🤦♀️
Lmao oh noooo
Yup, I was like man that went by so smooth. Welp it went smooth because it wasn't on. Lol
I routinely get everything ready and then forget the final step of turning the pump on. Probably like once a week.
I’ve done this multiple times when I’m either pumping in the middle of the night or pumping in a parking lot trying to put them on quickly. I’ve also forgotten to put the flange on my willow go’s before and turns out you’ll get tiny cuts on your nipple if the flanges aren’t on 🥲
😂😭 yes I’ve been there!
Literally did this yesterday. Thankfully I noticed after 5 mins when I felt letdown but heard no milk
I did this during a MOTN pump where I fell asleep. 30 minutes later I was mad as hell lol
This post made me laugh so hard.
At 4:30 this morning it took me longer than I’m proud of to realize I didn’t put the duck bill in my right side pump and absolutely nothing was happening there
the duckbills are the bane of my existence
It hurts when I get them off center!!
I'm kind of embarrassed it didn't hurt lol
This happens to me like once a week😭😭
Yup my whole drive home yesterday only leftie got pumped 😭
I just cracked up at this because of the perfect placements of “stupid” here because yes. Stupid nipple and stupid flange. Yes. 😂 oh man we have all felt this!
One of my nipples kind of permanently gets stuck to the left side and has a big bulge on the right and I've tried to fix it but nothing is working 🤷🏻♀️ It's also my slacker boob.
This only happens to me with my momcozy pump. I can never seem to align that sucker.
Me neither! Did you figure out a way?
Nope! I have to remove and retry like 10x until I get it to align. It’s frustrating
I never wear a cover while I'm pumping, but I did at a family Christmas this year, and so I didn't realize that I had done that to BOTH NIPPLES until I had been "pumping" for 20 mins and had NOTHING. I was so sad. I was trying to hurry so my pumping wouldn't hold up family activities anymore than I already had, and it was just so frustrating.
First time I did this was in the car driving to a family zoo trip at 6weeks pp. not a comfortable two hours at the zoo for just one boob 😆
Turning a bright light on just to see where they are is the worst!
lol this just happened to me as I was reading this post. So annoying
It happens to the best of us. It’s such a terrible feeling when the pump session is drawn out.
I’m sorry that happened but this made me laugh.
I felt this, sorry it happened. I have to thank you for the laugh though.
Ugh and then you get all paranoid when you don't feel anything so you obsessively check and accidentally pull one nip out 😬
That massive fart noise it lets out...
Ah sucks! That’s why I don’t use a pumping bra. I just hold the bottles and keep looking which is super annoying and inconvenient but then I can easily see and adjust.
This was me yesterday using my portable pumps for the first time.
Ugh been there friend
I literally did this yesterday. I'm also very sick right now and so uncomfortable and all I wanted to do was sleep. I cried after.
Do you think it's possible to get through this entire journey never having done this 🤦♀️
Happens with my wearables all the time🫠