Among the things you hear about in the class on nursing are the big health benefits of nursing. The challenge with nursing a baby is that the food source, Sarah, is not free to move away from the growing infant, Madeline. Now that we are getting more creative with how we spend from time instead of hiding inside the house or going to the wilderness where nobody would mind if a breast was hanging out milk has become equivalent to freedom. In order for Sarah to leave Madeline for any period of time she needs to have pumped an ample supply of milk. We also need milk for being more polite in various social situations like eating dinner with friends at a restaurant since it looks better to whip out a bottle than to pull up a shirt. So far Sarah hasn’t been able to create a strategic milk reserve so each trip has to be carefully plotted against the available milk. When she went to work yesterday Sarah’s mother came and fed Madeline the majority of the remaining milk that had been stockpiled over the course of two weeks of pumping. The only remaining supply was a frozen eight ounces or so of suspicious milk pumped after we went out drinking a week ago for her birthday. Now we are faced with Sarah going to work two days next week and she needs to keep pumping to get ahead of the curve. But little Madeline tends to drink the milk as well so it will be an interesting quest for milk freedom this week.