The whole experience was a bit surreal, firstly the consultant looked like a dark haired Rebel Wilson (even down to her mannerisms) which made it quite difficult to take her seriously when she was talking about a Very Important Subject. Secondly the lactation specialist wanted to talk to me about getting the girls out now and getting a head start on the production of colostrum, which totally threw me as I didn't think you could do that before the bub arrived.
Seemingly women with GD can have a delay in their milk coming through because of the mess your hormones are in, so they like you to try and express before the baby is born. I struggled to pay attention to what she was saying, partly because I wasn't expecting this info but mostly I was hanging out for her to say something really funny. My attention span went even further downhill when she pulled out a large brown knitted boob, complete with hot pink nipple. This was used to show me how to manually express milk for the bean. I am not kidding you in any way, she sat there with this big knitted boob clamped to her chest and proceeded to caress and squeeze it while pointing at photos of what to do, and through it all I'm trying to keep a straight face. (It kind of looked like this, but I think she needs to go with this in future to free up her hands...)
On a serious note, I'm going to have to do this three times a day, which could get a bit difficult at times, but I'm going to do the best I can. I hope I took in enough information, but between the knitted boob distraction and expecting her to be super funny I'm not sure, and am just glad she gave me some pamphlets to read at home. I'm trying to think of it like batch cooking for the Bean to make sure there is plenty of colostrum stored up to help feed the bub the first few days when things might not be working as planned.