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being a mom is

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I don’t have children but I have a few good girlfriends with little ones now and they still like to get together for girls’ night. Even though people who do have kids and don’t have kids can struggle, at first, to keep the friendship alive, if it’s a long-term friend you get over the hump and you make it work. In fact, I like living vicariously through my mommy friends. I get to cuddle and spoil their kids, without having any of the responsibility (and super early mornings). I will say that partying with a mommy is different and funny. At first, I felt like my mom friends were speaking in code when we’d get ready for a girls’ night—they just said a lot of things that seemed to make perfect sense to them but made no sense to me (like, “I have to express before I drink” aka pump milk before they get boozy). Here is what it’s like partying when you have kids.

 

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You pump ahead of time

As mentioned in the intro, nursing mothers have to make sure to pump and dump before drinking. It’s important that their babies have milk ready to go, but that that milk was produced before they imbibed.

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