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bfing as a teacher?

(I posted this on the bfing board as well...)?How do you do it? I'm looking to start a new teaching job in a few weeks. Would you pump in your classroom during lunch (seems akward even if there aren't kids) or go to your car? Or just go the whole day without... and how does it work on the weekends. Should I just suck it up and go get formula?
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Re: bfing as a teacher?

  • there should be a room somewhere in your school you could use,  some states require that by law!  but dont just give up and dont just not pump during the day, that will affect your supply
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  • I'll be pumping in the nurse's office.  She has an area that can ba curtained  off for privacy.  Then I can store my milk in her fridge.  I would be uncomfortable pumping in my classroom as I have 1st period off and if kids are late to school they would come to the room to drop off their stuff, I would get interrupted constantly.
  • I will try pumping in my closet when I go back in a month.
  • I go into the storage closet I share with another fellow new mommy.  It belongs to us so I know no one will come in while I am in there.  I pump before I leave the house, on my plan period, the last 10 minutes of my lunch, when I get home and before I go to bed. 

    Whenever I am with DD I nurse her even on the weekends.  I am so glad I stuck with it even though it is a hassle.  It is so worth being able to provide that one thing for her than no one else can!!!

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  • i BF and am a teacher.

    i pump in my classroom 3 times a day. ?i'm lucky because i have an off period in the morning and no one uses my room. ?i just put a shade over the window, a sign that says "do not enter", and i lock the door. ?i also pump at lunch in my room and right after school in my room.

    ?i'm confused about your weekend ? - i just nurse on the weekend, i don't pump.?

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  • oh and i pump before i leave my house in the morning. ?i nurse him on one side and pump the other in the AM.
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  • Thanks for the encouragement. I'm glad to know that there are people out here that do this and that inspires me to give it a shot.?

    My weekend ? was if it effects how often you feed them on the weekends. Right now I feed on demand. If I go to pumping, do I need to nurse at only the times I would have normally pumped (my lunch period)?Hope that makes more sense. ?

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  • i still feed on demand at night and on weekends. ?i would think you would need to pump more than once a day to keep your supply up. ?maybe you could supplement with formula if you are only able to pump once a day? ?you could also build a freezer supply before you go back to work and then maybe on-demand weekend feeding and night feeding would be fine to keep your supply up. ?i just don't think pumping once a day is going to be enough to give your daycare provider to keep your baby fed.
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  • I plan to pump right in my classroom, but I have a key and can lock the door. I will just make sure the blinds are closed and I will sit at my table that is away from the window in the door. I haven't started back yet so I don't know exactly how often I will pump, but I talked with my principal last year and made sure I had a schedule supportive of bfing. I have an hour before school starts, lunch 2 hours later, planning period 3 hours after that, and then the day is over an hour after that. So assuming I don't have any conferences or meetings, I could pump during those times.

     

    Don't switch to formula just yet!!! Give it a try! Are you pumping now? I have been for a month and we just bought a deep freezer today b/c my inside freezer is stashed!! 

  • I pumped before school, at 9:00 during my planning, then at 11:30 during lunch.  I didn't have a lock on my door and the only other option that they offered was the nurse's bathroom.  I'm sorry but I didn't want to look at a toilet.  So I taped a piece of paper over the door knob that said "do not enter."  Basically a student would have to tear the paper to get into my classroom.  I also wore a big jacket because sometimes I wouldn't even put the paper up.  I had a few kids come in to get their things to check out.  They couldn't see anything.  I shut the pump off real quick.  The vice principal even came in and didn't know a thing was going on.

    I'd pump as soon as I got home, too.  Then again after supper and right before bed.  I had an oversupply because I pumped so much.  I still have frozen BM in the freezer and I quit BF 3 months ago.

  • My friends used a single seater bathroom. They brought in a chair and a timer and did it in there with the door locked...obviously.
  • My classroom has huge windows on 2 walls, so I feel really uncomfortable pumping in there.  Our staff restrooms are single seaters.  I plan to bring a chair in there and tell the teachers around that I will be using it at certain times.  I did just start wondering if there is a power outlet in there though...  could be a problem.
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  • It does seem so much more difficult than if we had the ability to take a break whenever the clock said it was time to pump!

    I pump at 5:15 a.m. before I get in the shower, then I bf DS at 6:30.  I pump on my lunch at 10:45 and then I bf DS again at 3 when I pick him up.  My LC suggested I pump again at 3:30, but I've been back to work since the last week of August and I've never needed to do that.  I teach HS so our schedule rotates.  When my prep period falls during lunch, then I pump in a small empty room next to my department chair's office. Otherwise I'm pumping during my 20 minute lunch, and I do it in the car.  Pumping in the car is not as bad as it seems.  I just always bring my nursing cover with me. 
     

  • My classroom is a mobile trailer, so I have more privacy since no one comes to visit my classroom.  I put a black poster board over the door's window (use a sticky hook, punch a hold in the poster board and you can hang it/take it down).

     

    I close the blinds, turn up the heat and Nest for 15 minutes twice a day while I pump!  GL.

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  • My classroom's also in a trailer so I pump in it.  It is in "my corner of the world" and very few people come out our way...

    I pump at 5, 6:30 on my way to school (thank you hands free bra), 10 (which is lunch), 2 ish or on my way home close to that time, and then at home at 4:30, 7:15, and 9:30.  I only pump once or twice at school- 10 & 2. 

    I too put a note on my door that says please don't enter.  My desk is situated such that if someone did, I'd have time to "hide."

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