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Ladies to have to pump at work... and share a room

At my new job the lactation room is use as you need it. At Yahoo! it's by a reservation system. While it was pretty formal, I liked it because I knew that I had MY time, and I could book my meetings around it. I hold a job that does a LOT of meetings, so that predictability is important to me, and trying to use the room only to find someone else is in it (when I might not be able to take another break soon) is stressing me out.

If you have to share a room at work and there is no formal schedule, how do you make it work?

Re: Ladies to have to pump at work... and share a room

  • I share a room but so far have not run into a conflict. We are supposed to write down when we are in there, but I don't think other people do. I swear I've come in just after someone leaves b/c the light is on (it turns off automatically when no one is in there) Can you find out who else is using the room and try to figure out your own schedule? How many people are using the room?

    Do you bring your own pump (we have hospital grade pumps available for our use, but I still bring my own.) How would you feel pumping in front of others? I am pretty unmodest and if it was OK with the other woman, I would probably just pump with another person in the room.

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  • We usually email each other, especially if we're off our schedule.  ie: I usually pumped at 11am and 2pm, but if for some reason I was moving that I'd email the other person and let them know my new time.  Same for that person as well.
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  • Right now I share an office and 2 others that have private offices have offered theirs for my pumping use.
  • I found the people I am sharing with and we worked out our schedules. We also put a post-it on the door so we know when it's occupied.
  • I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say that I'm jealous of you ladies.  I have to pump sitting on the floor in the supply closet.
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  • I didn't have to share a room but on the rare occasions that my co-workers came by to chat on my pumping time, I'd throw on a nursing cover and pump. 
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  • this has been discussed on my old board a lot lately. seems they im each other and set up a schedule.

     

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  • imageMrs.Wright07:
    I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say that I'm jealous of you ladies.  I have to pump sitting on the floor in the supply closet.

    I had to do that too -- I'm glad that the new building I'm in (we moved while I was on leave) has a better set-up.

  • imageMrs.Wright07:
    I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say that I'm jealous of you ladies.  I have to pump sitting on the floor in the supply closet.

    my friend was given a card table in their supply closet that also houses a creepy hazmat shower in it.

    oh and cockroaches :( boo to supply closets. 

     

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  • Yeah, I'll def. inquire who's using it, but seeing as I'm the new person it will take me some time to figure it out.

    And holy cow on the cockroaches. I'd be screaming at HR on that one.

  • imageAvaLikeLava:
    And holy cow on the cockroaches. I'd be screaming at HR on that one.
    Ha ha, yeah, I think of the way you went off on them about the spiders...and they were OUTside!
  • Umm you ladies are awesome! I whined about pumping at home. Hats (bras?) off to you!!
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    imageMrs.Wright07:
    I don't have any advice, but I wanted to say that I'm jealous of you ladies.  I have to pump sitting on the floor in the supply closet.

    my friend was given a card table in their supply closet that also houses a creepy hazmat shower in it.

    oh and cockroaches :( boo to supply closets. 

     

    Yikes!  Yeah our supply closet has a window in it too, so when I go in there I tape pieces of paper over the windows.  It's such a glamorous life ;) 

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  • We have a similar setup at my work - basically there are only 3 stations and we have like 1000+ employees at that location. It was impossible to know who all the pumping mothers were or coordinate anything. For me, it turned out that if I go at the beginning of the hour, there was always space. If I went towards the end of the hour (presumably when people's meetings wrapped up and everyone was in a rush to get a pumping session in before their next meeting started), there was a wait and I did have to share a room on occasion,or just waited 15min. So maybe see if there's a similar trend and block out your schedule in the 'off peak' times. Some of the other mothers would just pump in the 'waiting area'. I have no modesty about this, but knew my letdown would take way longer because I woudln't be as relaxed.  
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  • Yeah we have one room in our building, its FCFS - you put up the sign (In Use) when you're pumping.  I think there were only about 2-3 of us using at any given time.  I've done different things.  Sometimes I've shared the room (plenty of space, really) if the other mom didn't care.  Or if they wanted privacy I just cracked the door and asked how long they'd be and came back.  A few times I noticed that I was always coming the same time as someone else who wanted privacy, so I just shifted my schedule a bit and it wasn't a problem. 

    I think if you're concerned about timing, there isn't a set schedule, and you can't get space when you need it, I'd just post a note up in the room and have everyone give some general notes on their pumping times and work from there.  

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