breast feeding and work!!!!

[momzoar77]

Currently I am on family leave and I wont be returning to work until 8 weeks after my c-section. I have not decided if I will be breast feeding but I am 100% positive I will use a breast pump. I want to be able to provide breast milk for a baby that will only be 8 weeks old. How do I manage to breast pump and work at the same time? Has anyone tried it?

[momzoar77]

Thank you so much ladies. I work at a contractors warehouse and we are always on the go. The only place they have is the woman's bathroom. I shall try my car for sure.

[Rachel__grace_]

Make sure you get the pump with a battery pack so you can pump in the car if you have to. Buy a nursing cape so no one can see what you're doing lol.

My work has a 'mothers room' downstairs with a minifridge so we can keep or milk separate from everyone's lunches :) With my last baby i would try to pump once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Remembering to check your pump bag each morning before you leave the house to make sure all the parts are there was probably the hardest part. Some days I would forget something in the dishwasher and would have to try to squeeze the milk out by hand, which was never fun.

[alexis444]

I worked and pumped I would pump right before work take a 20 minute break to pump again and then on my lunch as well. I would pump as soon as I got off work so I would have enough for mg baby the next day. Legally they have to give you time to pump they don't have to pay you for it but they have to give you the time. I worked at a fast food resturant and worked nine hours a day so I pumped in my car because there was no sanitary place inside that building.

[Kristen_Wortman]

Every work place has to provide you with a private sanitary place to pump.