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September 2011 Moms
lame lactation room
I just went to go check out the lactation rooms at work so I would know what the setup was when I came back.....
Its like they looked at the bare minimum of what was required and then thought about ways to make them as unpleasant as possible. Its a curtained off area in a women's locker room. I'd call it "semi-private".
There is an online signup to use it, and hopefully they will be less busy when I come back to work otherwise its going to be really difficult to pump often enough. And definitely going to be inconvenient times.
Straight back chair (folding type) with a coffee table height table, so its not even going to be possible to have the pump level with me......or have a surface to work on while I pump. In a sub-basement so no internet/phone access, even if I brought my own laptop. Dim lighting. I'm also told that if someone were to bring LO to work so I could BF, there is no where private I would be allowed to do it (no babies in lactation rooms). I could nurse in a patient waiting area "if I covered up". Lame.
Yes, there is an outlet, a sink, and a chair.
But really, this is a hospital. The lounges are much nicer. Couldn't they do better? So disapointed.
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Re: lame lactation room
I would bring the lacking amenities to the attention of whom ever is "in charge"
Personally, I'd be pumping wherever I pleased and making sure that it didn't interfere with my work. But I'm a bit of a rebel. Also, "covering up" is so not my thing when it comes to breastfeeding but I'm generally a very modest person.
Thanks guys....I was worried I was going to be flamed for complaining because truthfully it is "adequate" just not ideal/desireable. This place has a "work/life initiative department" and so many other parts of the hospital are so nice and thoughtfully designed that I just expected more.
I am definitely going to complain, but I feel a little weird about doing it before I've even used the room. I just wish there was a desk, or even a computer, and maybe even a locker to keep my pump down there. You'd think they would want me to work while I pumped.
Call rooms are an interesting idea, especially since I only need it during the day......I wish I felt comfortable enough to pump in my office, but its basically a public space with 12+ workstations and a variety of people all day.
Call rooms are definitely the way to go! Some of ours were swipe access and some were key though, so make sure to hang a sign if it's a room you think someone else might enter during the day. Our call rooms by the ORs were just off the resident lounge, and since I pumped for a year my fellow residents at the time got verrrry comfortable just coming up to the door and starting a conversation with me while I was pumping (especially weird since my program was mostly guys!).
ETA: I once picked up my son from daycare and brought him back for an evening "mandatory lecture" at the hospital. He was 3 mos old so I figured I'd just nurse him through it. Afterwards one of the guys said, "wow, your baby sure was quiet. But why does he have to sleep with a blanket over his head?" I figured if he couldn't tell what I was doing, I must've gotten good at being discrete.