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The expressing clique

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popsycal · 11/09/2005 20:22

I'm Popsy and I am a pumper

DS2 is 6 months and i am bac at work 4 days a week mon-thurs. I express and lunchtime and get around 5oz.......
He needs 2 7oz feeds during the day but i am hoping to reduce his lunchtime feeds as his solids increase.
BEen back at work properly only one week but am having to express during every feed and every time on my day off to get enough.
my boobs hurt

Who else is in my gang

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berolina · 11/09/2005 20:34

hi
will be joining you in 5 weeks when will be teaching 3 and a bit days/week again (ds will be 20 weeks) - and until then will be avidly lurking here for tips!

berolina · 11/09/2005 20:37

doh can't count... he'll be 21 weeks

alux · 11/09/2005 20:51

me too. I have only been back at work for a week, full time. I'm a lazy cow and have a v. full timetable. I get to pump at lunchtime - last week I got @ 9 oz per session. It means that dd gets a formula feed during the day. Toying with the idea of an extra pump at night. But not tonight, heh, heh.

Shivs1974 · 11/09/2005 20:52

Can I join as an exclusive pumper?? First time I've posted on this page....so hope I get all the acronyms right!
My DD is 16.5 weeks and never got the hang of latching on. So I attach myself to my Ameda Lactaline 5 times a day and feed her EBM. Had a go with quite a few pumps - Avent handpump (handy for motorway journeys!!) and broke 2 Medela Mini Electrics. My local Mothercare were becoming a bit suspect as to what I'd been up to
Going back to work mid-Jan so hopefully will have the joy of expressing there - though they have no separate fridges or rooms for this - should be a fun chat with HR She takes about 6oz 5 times a day and we're currently overproducing - so my freezer is getting full. Just wish my local hospital did a milk bank!

motherinferior · 11/09/2005 20:54

Can I Lurk, as a former expresser and tester of every effing pump on the market?

alux · 11/09/2005 20:55

bloody hell shivs, makes me humble about being a lazy cow. you are giving me the impetus to get a 8.30pm pump session going.

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popsycal · 11/09/2005 21:02

i use a medela min electric at home but eventually went and bought an avent isis hand pimp at work and was feeling very conspicuous and much bettersince then

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Shivs1974 · 11/09/2005 21:09

We used to have to watch the tele with subtitles on with the Medela Mini Electric - it's so loud!

moondog · 11/09/2005 21:13

Lol at you shivs!I remmember cringing upstairs with that noisy one. Had a newborn,had just moved house and dh was away. Needed to be able to get out and do stuff so was pumping madly. God knows what the workmen that I had in thought of the strange noises emanating from my bedroom at regular intervals!
(Much respect too. I'mawed by your dedication to the cause!)

Shivs1974 · 11/09/2005 21:19

LOL - can just imagine what they were thinking
Think I've just been v lucky being such a dairy cow - had great advice in the early days from my breastfeeding clinic & doula so was v lucky. Didn't perserve trying to BF as DD just didn't get on with it. She was a big girl when born (9.7) and my boobs are huge so think it was just too much like hard work for her!
Did any of you have to ask for special rooms and fridges for pumping whilst at work??

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popsycal · 11/09/2005 21:23

i currently do it in the toilet which i know is wreong...need to have the conversation with my boss.....

i use a cool bag with ice blocks which wrks fine fir me

expresseing now so sirry about typing

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popsycal · 11/09/2005 21:26

just read backkkk....i dont use a hand pimp
pmsl

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moondog · 11/09/2005 21:29

A hand pimp!!
Rofl!

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popsycal · 11/09/2005 21:32

a hand pimp in the toilets no less

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alux · 11/09/2005 21:39

told a deputy head the first day back. he was cool about it. just told him I needed a room and a fridge and I would sort out the rest. I couldn't use my classroom as it would be too easy for someone to enter, as caretakers also have pass keys plus can you imagine being discovered by an 11 to 16 year old! I teach at an all boys comp.

by thursday they found a room which is well away from main traffic that only one other person uses and she is on maternity leave.

I just store the milk in the fridge in the main staff room. if anyone asks what it is, it will be a little education for them.

I have a medela mini electric at home. I started out with a avent hand pump. it works but knacks. currently renting an ameda egnell. its bulky but quiet and efficient. may buy my own double pump if this keeps up for more than a month.

shiv, where did you buy your lactaline? I am taking dd to see the doc on wednesday as she has bad eczema. does anyone think I could possibly talk gp into getting me a dual pump on the nhs as a way to assist with her eczema?

chipmonkey · 11/09/2005 22:03

Can I join? I'm expressing in one of our consulting rooms in work. We have no fridge in the practice (optical) so I usually bring a coolbag. One day a week I work 12 hours so bring my own tiny fridge from Argos which also works from my car battery. I use an Avent Isis IQ duo double electric pump at work but use the avent hand pump at home.

chipmonkey · 11/09/2005 22:07

The room I use has a lock but annoyingly the key won't turn! Have to put the fire extinguisher up against the door!

Shivs1974 · 12/09/2005 08:46

Alux - got my pump from www.expressyourselfmums.co.uk for £79.95 + p&p. Delivery was v quick. Just noticed that the NCT also sell it on their website - same price but p&p is much cheaper. It doesn't come with the flexishield (I hate that word) but you can get this & other spare parts direct from Ameda. If you do decide to get it (and it is a great pump), I suggest getting some of the white valves as they can split.

chipmonkey · 12/09/2005 10:54

Shivs, whats a flexishield? Sounds vaguely Star Wars-ish!

Shivs1974 · 12/09/2005 12:32

Ah - it does doesn't it!! But I'm going to disappoint you now as it's not as exciting as that - it's the plastic thing that goes between your breast and the funnel of the pump. It's meant to make a bit more comfy. Do you know what I mean??

chipmonkey · 12/09/2005 13:14

Oh, like the "let-down" massage cushion on the Isis. Which to me sounds lovely but in reality is not really a massage!

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popsycal · 12/09/2005 19:25

anyone elses boobs killimng from expressing?

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chipmonkey · 12/09/2005 19:27

Actually no, Popsycal, I love my pump. At the moment its far more gentle than ds3! (teething

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popsycal · 12/09/2005 20:38

the avent is fine but the medela is hurting

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