Quick responses pls -WIBU to express in my train seat?

[AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered]

Express breast milk I mean. I'm en route to London, v crowded train. The loo has shit on the seat. Vestibules all crowded.

I'd obviously express under a coat so no one would see anything but it's noisy (the Medela Swing).

My first meeting is at 10 so no time to express till 2pm.

WIBU to do this? Too weird?

if you are prepared to do it on a train then I can't see why doing in a meeting is so out of consideration.

Glad you were not upset or anything on the train.

Newsflash!! This just in!!!
Breast milk is NOT THE SAME AS POO!!

Fuck sake.

Carry on OP, express wherever you like and ignore the ignorant arseholes.

Good on you OP for managing it!
I wouldn't pay any attention to some of the ridiculous views on here. At the end of the day would you really be worried about offending someone so vile and ignorant?
If I noticed what you were doing I would admire you.

As an aside I suffer from interstitial cystitis which means I sometimes need the loo quite urgently so I might wonder what was going on in there if I heard a mechanical him while I'm waiting outside the cubicle!

Mechanical hum, not him!

I would have been surprised if I noticed but that is only because I have never thought about the logistics for mothers who work and commute long hours. Well done OP quite brave really but as you say, no choice.

if you are prepared to do it on a train then I can't see why doing in a meeting is so out of consideration

Because it would massively unprofessional! It's one thing to do it under a coat in a corner seat, quite another to brazenly start pumping during a meeting, fumbling to keep covered up whilst changing breasts and then pouring the milk into a bag all whilst carrying on discussing multi-million pound budgets... Hats of to you if you could be that blasé (I genuinely mean that, good on you) but I'm just not brave enough.

Well done OP. I’ve never had to think about expressing in public, so was interested to see what you’d do.

Only time I pumped was when on a trip to NYC when DS was 10 months, so I pumped and dumped in the loo on the flight. Had a squeaky hand pump, but luckily there were only 5 people in economy and I don’t think anyone heard!

It seems to me (from some of the responses here) that we need some more public exposure to not just breastfeeding, but expressing too?

*off

Glad you managed ok OP. I use to express on the way to and from work.

Evein though I’m hours Kate to this thread, I had to keep reading to see if you did it. I’m well chuffed you did! Good on you!

My DSis had a baby that would not take the breast so she expressed and bottle fed him for 6 months. It was time consuming and knackerung and I absolutely admire her for it. She also had two older DCs and a DH who works nights so unless the older ones were going to stay indoors for 6 months that meant a fair amount of expressing on the go, especially in school holidays. My DSis has expressed in playgrounds, a funfair, the cinema and once on the lawn in the middle of Warwick castle. Glad you went for it OP.

I've ended up pumping in public. Our Brownies had a great, unusual opportunity for a 4 day residential. I went because my baby was a year old whereas the other leader's baby was a few months. Except it turned out that DS2 was far more of a milk monster than DS1 who was nearly weaned off by that age. He ate well, so he was fine to be left for 4 days without milk.

Unfortunately for me, I had a heavy supply and had to pump and dump regularly through the trip in order to avoid a 3rd bout of mastitis and agonising vasospasms. My body was adjusted to a working day without feeds, but without the baby to do the job thouroughly, the Medela had to come out every few hours no matter where we were. Fortunately Guiding uniform was baggy enough that the pump could be well covered as I walked all around with it.

The kids were incredibly unbothered that I was regularly having to milk myself and got used to it very quickly Then again, the novelty of leaders breastfeeding always wore off after about 25 seconds.

I commute and I would rather you did in seat than used the loo! I wouldn’t care if your boob was hanging out but you’ve said it won’t be, no one will bat an eyelid and on the rare occasion they do - ignore

Sad that the man sitting right next to you didn’t care in the slightest but a woman reading about it on the internet is aghast..

I have never considered doing this on my commute. I wish I were brave enough because it would save heaps of time. I've happily breastfed on the same trains but pumping is just so logistically difficult I can't see how I would manage it (for a start I usually get half naked!!). Well done you!

I would hate to do it myself but would be entirely understanding of the fact that no woman would do this if she had a choice not to!

They are just boobs, it's just milk. No tiz to be had. Carry on OP.

if you are prepared to do it on a train then I can't see why doing in a meeting is so out of consideration.

What a very odd thing to say I can think of literally hundreds of things I'd do on a train but not in a meeting (eat a sandwich, send a text, watch a film, read a magazine. I don't do it personally but I see people putting on their make-up).

Well tit would be unprofessional, not because there is anything wrong with it, but your attention should be on the content of the meeting, it would be the same if if you were scrolling on your phone while in the meeting your not engaged in the meeting.

Men walk around with their chests bare all summer -and thats soley for their own comfort.

I was told once that as long as you are not intentionally causing harm to another person, then their reaction to what you're doing is their responsibility, not yours.

If expressing on the train works to keep you and your baby well, then do so. If someone is offended, they can turn away or move seats.

Please don't use the loo on the train for 15 mins.
I have IBS and will have to poo on the table if you lock yourself in there for all that time.
There is only one loo on my train, and I check it is working before I stay in the train. I will wait for the next rain if it is out of order..........
Babies need breast milk, so pump away where you are.

Op, fuck what the perpetually offended think. Just do it.

Chocolatecoffeeaddict

No definitely wouldn't do this. It's not socially acceptable.
Breastfeeding is different. You're feeding a baby that needs feeding. Expressing is for your own convenience and is not as urgent.
My baby couldn't latch. I had to express to feed him. Sorry not sorry you find that socially unacceptable

I'd not be bothered if I sat in a carriage with women expressing milk. I'd be absolutely fine with it and know why sometimes you just have to!

There are work related times I haven't been able to express, been leaky/bursting. Sometimes I have got away with it but sometime I got mastitis. So don't be like me, keep healthy!

Sorry, could I just jump on this thread please. First of all, well done OP!!! I'll be in a similar situation soon so would actually love to hear more about the practicalities. If you used the loo, would that mean the manual pump, or does the medela swing run on the shaver plug socket?? Likewise, at the seat, if you say it was noisy did you mean the manual pumping is noisy or did you have a seat with plug socket? Did you just sneak the machine under your jumper and held your coat up high for the whole time? Thanks for any advice.