Those of you who expressed when at work. Where did you keep the milk?

[NoMansAnIsland]

In the regular fridge where people kept their food? Or did your workplace produce another fridge.

I have an AIBU? But I don't know if I have the balls to say it.
I feel like I need to scope out what other women have done first.

I'm not a troll, just a recent name changer. I don't need lactation details, just storage.

In the communal fridge. With a big label that read, 'Breast milk- do not drink!!' in bug capital letters.

*big

@Waveysnail

Did you not have it in a container/box with label with your name on it? Just chucking in bottle breast milk on shelf would be a bit grim.

Why is it grim?

Is it grim to have milk from a cows udder in there?
Or dead animals in there?

@MichelleScarn

I'm nhs, got a lovely lockable (with loo) room, provided with hospital grade pump, and lockable fridge. Also had a kettle! Was very well looked after!

I'm also NHS. when I was working on a special care baby unit, I would have to express on a dirty floor in a storage room where random items had bee thrown in and stored. No chair, a space the size of a napkin on the floor to 'sit'. It was so degrading.

@BirdIsland

This is probably a silly question but why do you express at work? Is it for comfort? I'm not being goady, genuinely looking for an answer! I started back at work a couple of months ago and haven't needed to express after the first few weeks, once my body got used to not feeding during the day. I feel like I'm missing something!

Because I'm away from him for 14 hours, so I would get mastitis if I didn't express. Honestly I want to stop breastfeeding so I'm weaning him off, and I'd stop pumping all together if I could but the pain towards the end of the shift is unbearable and I've caused myself mastitis several times before by not expressing.

We had a seperate room for breastfeeding/pumping with a fridge in it.

OP you must be really gutted.

I have to work when my babies are very young, I often express 450ml over a day - if I didn't, what would my mum feed my baby next time I was working?

There is nothing wrong with a labelled bottle of breast milk in the fridge, if you're allowed to put food in there then there's no difference. Speak to HR because it's not ok to bully women like this.

I wasn't gutted because I lost the milk.
I was gutted because I felt like someone was trying to make a point. And chose my second to last day to do it.

Just chucking in bottle breast milk on shelf would be a bit grim.

I can understand some people not being happy about it being on display.

Both these replies are bonkers. You understand OP put a bottle of milk in the fridge, not her tits? And breast milk doesn’t suddenly gain sentience in cool confines, leap forth from its bottle/bag/container, and wipe its breasty human origins on your Pret cheese sanger? Honestly.

I’d be furious, OP, I bloody hate expressing, it’s hard enough work without someone binning it, let alone binning it to make a point like the mad posters I’ve quoted.