My friend is a milking machine. She pumps 120 ounces a day on top of nursing her daughter. (24 ounces a session--what?!)
She donated over 10,000 ounces of milk.
Her secret?
She eats pork pork pork! (She eats veggies and a well balanced diet, but eats tons of pork!)
She swears by it.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@MamaMoose: she's intense! She eats like a beast (5,000 calories a day) but has lost all her baby weight and is down 5lbs (9 months pp).
I ate a lot more pork than usual this weekend (her fam visited us) and I swear my boobs are more full this morning despite only sleeping 5 hours.. Haha I ate 5 strips of thick applewood bacon this morning....
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Holy cow!! That's a lot of milk!! I'll need to tell the hubby to grill me a ton of pork chops this fall then or make everything with pork instead of beef or chicken. haha!
coconut / 8861 posts
@chopsuey119: Wow, I'm so impressed. Even when I felt like I was eating ton, I wouldn't produce near that much. Props to your friend!
ETA: Grilled center cut pork loin is the menu for dinner tonight!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@cascademom: haha I ate lots of bacon for breakfast and am making BBQ pork for lunch. She eats 5,000 calories a day at least. Drinks a ton of water. I was so shocked and impressed. My dh was blown away too. Lol
honeydew / 7091 posts
I don't know if I'm more impressed by the 120 oz a day, or the 5,000 calories a day!!!
It takes me 7.5 days to pump that much milk! I guess I'm going to have to buy some pork chops...
grapefruit / 4717 posts
Wow, that's amazing. I'm lucky if I pump a total of 14 oz/day and can do 2 nursing sessions. It's a good thing I'm now addicted to bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwiches!
nectarine / 2217 posts
ahhaha!!! amazing! honestly i think i pumped less than 120oz in the 7 months i nursed/pumped for LO! (while supplementing, obviously hehe)
i will try this... mmm pork.... 
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@highwire: haha she's a petite girl, but her boobs are huge. I'm at 36C-ish and hers were a lot bigger than mine.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@chopsuey119: HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA comparison sizing.
AND OHMG... i can't believe it!!! does she get engorged a lot? or just pumps it all out?
coconut / 8861 posts
@chopsuey119: I'm going to store away the bacon and massive diet for LO #2. One of our favorite BBQ joints (before it closed) had a sandwich called the "Beast." I ate that during early breastfeeding and produced so much. I felt like a guy the way that I ate during most of my breastfeeding. Now, I'm trying a month without fries and cheeseburgers to lose a little of the weight put on by breastfeeding and crazy amount of calories.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
My supply increased a lot when my mom was visiting last year...she cooked a lot of pork!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@mrsjyw: lol I didn't ask.. But at 9 months pp I'm sure she just pumps it out!
grapefruit / 4681 posts
That is amazing!!!
If this LO can handle pork I will have to increase my intake I was a vegetarian for many years and vegan while nursing DS, but if I could only eat one meat ever pork would be the one for me!! haha it's a win win
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
That is insane!! I still have some oversupply issues, but I'm still so curious to try this.
What amazes me even more is the 5000 calories a day!!
bananas / 9357 posts
What?! That's crazy. What did she pump a whole bunch after her baby was born and now her body thinks it's feeding quadruplets or something? Wow. She must have a lot of milk glands in her breasts. This is a great excuse to eat more bacon. 
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@Mrs. High Heels: hahaah I think 5k is easier than we think.. Chipotle burrito breakfast lunch and dinner and you're pretty much there! Lol
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
Omg like I need an excuse to eat more bacon! This mama is on it, ha.
honeydew / 7504 posts
Mind.Blown. Holy crap. And I thought my 20-ish-ounces per day was great!
nectarine / 2280 posts
Wow that's super impressive! I'm going to have to put more pork on the menu. Hello bacon!
coconut / 8305 posts
WHOA! That's crazy! We don't really eat pork, but I've been thinking about pumping & donating so I might try this!
pineapple / 12793 posts
I'm still thinking about the 5,000 calories. That's like the Michael Phelps challenge
pomegranate / 3452 posts
I had pork for dinner last night and holy crap I was more full than ever this morning!! Eat up, ladies, lol
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