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Express Yourself! How to Successfully Combine Breastfeeding and Work

How to Successfully Combine Breastfeeding and Work

By Helen Froud

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Approaches to Nursing or Pumping at Work
Mothers who work and who express their milk have a number of different approaches. Some pump during the day and breastfeed at home; others go to their baby's caregiver to nurse during the lunch hour and rely on formula at other times. But all have overcome the problems of helping their managers and co-workers to see them as a productive employee as well as a nursing mother.

Women from a variety of unlikely occupations have succeeded in pumping their milk in the workplace.

"Once I returned to work, I sat down with my boss and explained that I was nursing," says Silverlene Johnson Kindle, a former military officer from Atlanta. "He was very supportive, but there was no private place for me to pump my milk. I just had to put modesty aside and pump in the ladies' restroom." Silverlene continued to successfully express her milk three times daily for her son for a whole year.

Other women take a different approach, and are less open about their plans.

"I didn't tell my manager or my co-workers that I was expressing milk at work," says Dilys Wynn, a former nuclear industry human resources manager. "It was a male-dominated industry and it would have been too embarrassing. My working environment was very safety-conscious and we had a well-appointed medical suite. I just told the medical staff what I was doing and used one of the private medical offices to pump my milk at lunchtimes."


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