Before Dee was born, I was skeptical of our need for a bottle drying rack. First of all, I planned to be breastfeeding, so I didn’t think we’d be washing and drying too many bottles. Second of all, thanks to my BFF Ellen, I have a brand new fancy (whisper quiet) Frigidaire Dishwasher
, so I’d just be popping those [few and far between] bottles in there for cleaning/drying purposes, right? WRONG. [I was a fool. A FOOL.] (There was a third-of-all that involved me not wanting bottles out on my counter all the time, but the person who had the energy to care about bottles sitting out on the counter no longer exists, so I’m not even going to address it.)
Okay, cut to about four months later. I’m exclusively breast feeding, but that crazy-talk about not using bottles? Please. I have a daughter who would feast from my rack all.day.long. if I would let her (and if my nipples wouldn’t just plain fall off.) Mama needs a break every now and then. Mama also does leave the house (and the baby) on occasion for work-related activities, so Mama [that’s me in this scenario, try to keep up] is working on her freezer stash. (Did I ever tell you guys about the time that I got into my car after a meeting only to discover that I had lactation spots forming on my camisole? No? And how when I got home I had to pump both breasts simultaneously in front of my Mother-In-Law as they sprung leaks that shot clear across the room? Yeah…that happened.)
Anyway…the point is this: My breast pump, a.k.a. the mini-dairy
(which cost three-hundred-fucking-dollars, by the way) has parts (bottles, and other small parts) that require immediate washing after use (okay require might be the wrong word, but…ew.) And we don’t use the pump bottles to feed her. No, no, no…because that would be way too straight forward. We use the Dr. Brown’s bottles
(which also break down into small parts) because after buying all sorts of stupid gimmicky bottles
to try and avoid nipple confusion which Dee never had a problem with any way ::knock wood:: it was determined that the basic, old school, glass air flow bottle caused the least fussing (for us) and we should have just stuck with that in the first place. And then there are the pacifiers (Dee is pretty partial to the fancy Natursutten
one that we got as a shower gift.) We’re a two dog household, so when paci’s hit the floor, they’re liable to get scooped up in a beast’s mouth, or stepped on with poop-paws, or at very least end up with some puppy hair on them, and, again…ew, so those end up on the list of things that might need hand washing and air drying on the counter at any given moment.
SO. The point is, you’re gonna need a drying rack. And the Grass Countertop Drying Rack pictured above from Boon? I’m in love with it. We just picked one up and it’s as functional as it is pretty. And it’s really pretty, isn’t it?
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