Run, For Your Lives........Right Boob About To Explode..........

[Sushipaws]

I'm at work and I forgot my pump. I don't get much when I express but it takes the pressure off. It's only lunch time and dd not due to feed from me until 7pm.

How does one hand express? And will someone pass me a tissue as I cry if I have to pour it down the sink

Here.

hand express is very easy but you have to relax and remember you are not trying to squeeze your nipple

Jut try to get your finger and thumb to act like a mouth and gently clamp on and off at the same point, it wont come straight away but if your full it wont be long.
HTH, very hard to describe

could you nip out to chemist and get a bag or spare bottle to express into? i never managed to get anything out so no help with technique, but i did do better by hand that with a pump.

Don't pour it down the sink - drink it yourself. If it's good for the baby it must be good for you, too. Waste not, want not!

I second drinking it yourself instead of pouring down sink

You can express into a (clean) mug, cover and keep in the fridge. You could always then decant it tomorrow, or today if you have alocal chemist whre you could get a spare bottle.

Ok, I'm off to the chemist.

*Gags slightly at the thought drinking milk...... any kind of milk, it's all yurch.

If you're hand expressing, you may find a mug or similar wide vessel much easier than a bottle to express into. I always ended up covered in milk when hand expressing into a botle, even a wide-necked one.

Oh yes, don't bother trying to express into a bottle, not even a wide-nceked one. In fact, the larger the bowl the better. If you want to save the milk, express into a freshly washed and dried bowl and then pour it into a disposable bottle or expressing bag (both available from chemist). If you don't intend to keep it, then just express into a handful of scrunched-up paper towel or tissue. That way you won't see what you're (sob) 'wasting'.

Phew.....

Stand down red alert, explosion diverted.

I ran to Boots only to find storage bags were £8, shocking! So I went to the chemist next door and got a cheap bottle for 99p.

Expressed into a big mug, managed to get 75ml in the mug and about the same all over my top and trousers.

PC, thanks for the link.

Thanks all, I hope never to forget my pump again