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New Mom pumping breast milk at work.


Littlemama1

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Any help out there would be greatly appreciated, I'm a new Mom and about to go back to work. The problem is I have been breastfeeding my daughter and Now will need to pump at work. I work a 24 hour shift. Has anyone else out there done this and how did you make it work? I have thought about stopping but I really want what's best for my baby and the research I've read leans in the direction of breast feeding for 6 months.

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If you have a station, pump on downtime there... if you can't leave the ambulance, talk to your partner and just go in the back to pump between calls.

I've known a lot of moms who have pumped at work... shouldn't really be a big deal and if they make a big deal of it sue them :)

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Good for you for wanting to continue to breast feed. I don'tknow that pumping in the back of the ambulance is a good idea. I think you would be better off finding a clean quiet place in the hospital if you can't back ak to your station.

Just my opinion.

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Bring a pump along, pump when you can.

Don't make a federal case out of pumping but like Kate said, you have every right to pump.

Get a double pump though, that way you can do double duty.

Good luck.

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We've had a few female medics in this position...they pump when they can. Now we worked for a county/rural service so we could, on occasion, work it out with another crew to watch "their" backs while she pumped in station. Where there is a will, there is a way. :D

And, to Captain...they make a double pump? Dear Lord...where was all this fancy stuff when I was nursing?

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Yeah, unless you're running back to back calls you should have more than enough time and opportunity to pump. Throw a towel over your chest, do your business, and explain to anyone asking what you're doing, well, what you're doing. I'm unaware of any place that might have rules against it, no matter where you chose to pump in this manner. But it's way past time people were mature enough to stop thinking of it as an issue.

Particularly in the EMS community, though you'll have requests to watch, it's difficult to imagine any complaints.

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Pretty sure Mike is correct: They cannot require you to go in the bathroom or other unsanitary location.

When I worked in a base type operation in NH we had one of the bunk rooms with a nice chair and desk for them. One of the women would have her husband stop by in the evening and we covered so she could nurse the baby, unless it really hit the fan.

It all depends on how decent a company you work for , & how hard they need to be pushed to be decent employers.

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