The Breast Milk Stain
Today as I was cleaning up the house, I can across something that I have walked past, cleaned around, or glanced at many times but never cleaned. The breast milk stain on the corner of our bed frame. When Collins was about a week (maybe less?) old, we were in the trenches of the newborn stage. We had placed her bassinet up against our wall of our bedroom. It was further from where we slept because she was still on oxygen and a monitor and we didn't have enough outlets in our room to put her by us. We had a hard foldable chair at the base of the bed for me to nurse her or feed her. Looking back, I laugh at this setup because we could've made this situation a little more comfortable for the both of us. But back to the story. Collins had been up an average amount of times this night, nothing out of the ordinary. I woke up to nurse her probably around 2 or 3 AM. When I would nurse her, I would switch my Haakaa (milk collector) back and forth. When she was finished, I set t...

