Expressing at Work: the Pump Cupboard

[foxytocin]

Once more I will be expressing at work. I am a dab hand at this but i am not looking forward to the monotony of it. Come boost your and my morale over here.

I was doing in London and the only place they could find for me to pump was this small room with a massive picture of The Queen

It was rather off putting

Get lots of trashy mags...

should have read, '... doing a course in London...'

LOL i once expressed in a corporate box in St James' Park where i went for a seminar.

Am back next week with my own 'pump cupboard' set up. Have arranged with computer services that I can have internet connection in there so that I can continue mumsnetting working while I pump (hands free).

No lock on the door though, so hopefully blinds down should be a clue to the senior partner so that he doesn't come wandering in...

i express in an uninspiring unheated medical room in a 60's building. in the winter I leave my coat on. on the upside, it means that i don't have to put my milk in the fridge upstairs.

at internet access.?>

I pumped for a year at work - and on client sites/airports/planes/hotels around the world.

The worst points were when I had to track down what had happened to my EBM (bag, bottle etc) out of the canteen fridge last working day before Christmas and explain to facilities that they had tipped my milk down the drain. The manager joked about me not needing milk for my coffee as I had my own the other week in front of other people - which I wasn't impressed by.

The other was when DS was 6 months old and I had to go to Sweden to sort a problem out (special favour to the hospital in question). I'd planned to sneak off at lunchtime and pump - but they wanted to show me some stuff, and I had to explain to the male physicist that I needed to pump . Bless them, they organised a room with comfy chair, pillows and a drink, and treated it like it was the most normal thing in the world. They all discussed how long they or their wives had bf - and it was all over 12 months.

I just read while pumping at work (elsewhere I did everything from watching tv, mnetting, to being on conference calls) - as I mainly pumped in the first aid room I got a really good refresher course on first aid when I forgot my book

well i am supposed to be expressing now but i am a poorly dd2 on my left side and the pump isn't set up yet. grr.

Sorry to hear your dd is poorly Foxy.
Am back at work and expressing for ds all over the place - service stations, car parks- have done on planes and in airports too. Good book certainly helps or a radio (but I have to wait until letdown starts as that takes concentration!)
Anyway - feeling the boredom with you!
CMOT - think I would have launched anyone that poured my 'liquid gold' down the drain! Bet you were fuming...