I signed up with Milkshare because as a result of a reduction, I can only comfort nurse. My babies need the bottle from day 1. We've tried the "nursing only" thing for three babies of the five (the first baby of my five was so premature I could only pump and dried up after six weeks. I didn't even get an ounce in 24 hours; the next four nursed--day and night-- for 9-19 months). Anyway, it's very clear that I have to supplement from the beginning.
So I signed up with Milkshare, as I said, and answered a couple of offers but I think I was just late in getting to them. I was not late, however, in jumping on the third offer. So she basically says she has 250 oz of BM in her freezer and that she lives an hour away from me. I was floored. As I can't reprint email exchanges here all I can say is that she gave every indication the milk was mine and that we would get together Sunday. SHE is the one who told me Sunday was the day we could do it and after she got out of church. I gave her my phone number and told her to call me Saturday night so we could confirm. No call. No email. Okay, that's fine. It was only 2 hours of my day that I needed, so I made sure to keep my Sunday light and open until 3pm. No call. No email.
I get a message this morning that oh, she gave her milk away to another family in NJ because they responded first and I was second. WTF!??!!? Why didn't she tell me up front that she was working with another family and if it fell through she'd get back to me?? She told me that this past Sunday would work great for her!
No, I do not feel entitled to anyone's milk. I do feel entitled to common courtesy, though, because we were waiting for the go-ahead to throw our five kiddos in the van and travel out for an hour to pick up milk for the baby. I just feel like I had the rug pulled out from under my feet and it bites.
I was so excited I went out and got new glass bottles and a breastmilk warming cup. *sigh*
Hopefully something will work out in these next 7 or so weeks.
So I signed up with Milkshare, as I said, and answered a couple of offers but I think I was just late in getting to them. I was not late, however, in jumping on the third offer. So she basically says she has 250 oz of BM in her freezer and that she lives an hour away from me. I was floored. As I can't reprint email exchanges here all I can say is that she gave every indication the milk was mine and that we would get together Sunday. SHE is the one who told me Sunday was the day we could do it and after she got out of church. I gave her my phone number and told her to call me Saturday night so we could confirm. No call. No email. Okay, that's fine. It was only 2 hours of my day that I needed, so I made sure to keep my Sunday light and open until 3pm. No call. No email.
I get a message this morning that oh, she gave her milk away to another family in NJ because they responded first and I was second. WTF!??!!? Why didn't she tell me up front that she was working with another family and if it fell through she'd get back to me?? She told me that this past Sunday would work great for her!
No, I do not feel entitled to anyone's milk. I do feel entitled to common courtesy, though, because we were waiting for the go-ahead to throw our five kiddos in the van and travel out for an hour to pick up milk for the baby. I just feel like I had the rug pulled out from under my feet and it bites.
I was so excited I went out and got new glass bottles and a breastmilk warming cup. *sigh*Hopefully something will work out in these next 7 or so weeks.
I can't believe she didn't tell you up front that you weren't first in line. I hope you find someone else soon.
, I'll have to see, if worse comes to worse, if we have the money to have bm shipped to us.
