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Nursing/Pumping and male colleagues

mssaintmssaint
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I think it's funny in the thread below how some of our male colleagues react.

I had a lunch event on Wednesday with a funding partner and my contact there (who is a super nice guy) and I were talking. I mentioned that I was starving and without missing a beat, he said "Are you still nursing your son?" I don't mind sharing that I'm breastfeeding, but I thought it was so funny that a business contact would be comfortable asking that.

I mentioned making our warehouse staff blush in the thread below. My team and I had to go to our storage facility/warehouse to clean out some supplies. We were there for several hours and I needed to pump. So I had to ask the three guys who work there if they could find me a private space to pump. They were super-nice and told me to use their office and just stayed in the warehouse for the 20 minutes or so it took. Then because I was in a different place, I didn't pack up the same way I usually do, and I somehow missed my hands-free bra. I didn't realize it until the next day. Ooops.

They delivered it to my desk a few days later without any comments. LOL. I felt kind of bad.
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Re: Nursing/Pumping and male colleagues

  • DCtoLowcountryDCtoLowcountry

    I work at a place that among other things, promotes breastfeeding. I know I've talked on here ad nauseum that due to low supply I nursed and supplemented. All the women in my organization understood - but the men? I had a male colleague shake his head and sigh when he asked and I told him I supplemented, saying, "American women never exclusively breastfeed." I was so angry. Angry

    It was great when I was pumping though. People understood it was quiet time - no phone calls, barely any emails. You could hear crickets chirp.

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  • RomeRomance06RomeRomance06
    imageDCtoLowcountry:

    I work at a place that among other things, promotes breastfeeding. I know I've talked on here ad nauseum that due to low supply I nursed and supplemented. All the women in my organization understood - but the men? I had a male colleague shake his head and sigh when he asked and I told him I supplemented, saying, "American women never exclusively breastfeed." I was so angry. Angry

    It was great when I was pumping though. People understood it was quiet time - no phone calls, barely any emails. You could hear crickets chirp.

    Indifferent Um, what??? You know what, if men had to breastfeed I guarantee the majority of babies would be exclusively FF. That's all I'm saying. It's bad enough to have another woman make those comments to a mother, but a guy?? No. Don't have the boobs, don't have the right to make those comments. Sorry. Luckily, my DH is always the one comforting me when I'm distressed over my low supply and telling me it's OK to give DD formula, it's not a big deal, don't stress, etc. What an a**hole. Sorry.

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