THEOVERSUPPLYMAMA

hiiiii my name is Bethany, i’m a lactation counselor, but i also work a 9-5 (i mean if we’re being technical, 8-6) job! i’m a receptionist at a family owned animal hospital — my mom has worked at this clinic for (not even exaggerating) almost my whole life!!! my bosses are like family, and it’s […]

i made it a goal to be as organized and simple as i can with my pumping equipment as a type B + ADHD human, who isn’t always the tidiest! after some trial and error, and trying to figure out where to hold everything — here is what is working best for me, my pumping […]

it’s been on my heart to simplify this pumping journey with my second child Corran — i only want to keep equipment in our kitchen and “out” that i truly use!!! because if i’m being honest and revealing my type B nature? i never actually was able to clean up and put away all of […]

my mom’s side of the family is incredibly Scandinavian (Swedish + Norweigian especially), and this recipe is a wintertime favorite from my grandma has made literally since i can remember! especially in the wintertime months. now my mom has been making it for the last few years because we are the only two in my […]

basically my mantra for packing my hospital bag for our second son has been “as least amount of ish possible to still feel prepared and comfortable”. this is our second baby, but first time planned hospital birth! so it kinda feels like our first round since i don’t know what to expect 100% from a […]

i’m going to refer to this action as collecting colostrum, but you may also hear it as “harvesting” colostrum! this is a personal preference because i hate the term harvesting when we talk about breast milk — like i’m not a corn field?? there is no harvesting involved with me as a human? maybe this […]

because short answer: it is not true 100% of the time!!! it is so much more complicated than what was originally thought. foremilk = the first milk that is expressed during a feed or pump session hindmilk = the last milk during a feed or pump session NOW, the assumption that has been made and […]

let me just open your eyes for a hot second — if you have been raw-doggin’ it with the clothes that you have during pregnancy and pumping, like LOVE THAT. i am a thrifting girl at heart, my mom almost made me and my siblings grow up at the thrift store for our “new” clothes. […]

one of the questions i’ve gotten most frequently after announcing and talking about my second pregnancy — “are you planning on pumping for this breastfeeding journey? would love to know what this will look like for you!” i want to reiterate that it is SO hard to plan for one birth and postpartum experience, and […]

you have made the decision to pump from the get-go, or you already know for a fact that your breastfeeding journey needs a pump to be involved. P.S.remember — over here we refer to “breastfeeding” as an umbrella term, meaning nursing OR pumping, or any combination of the two! but WHEN do you actually need […]