As I said in the last post, I was in the office for the first time last Wednesday. We were holed up in the conference room having a brainstorming session. We took a break and I decided that would be a good time to go pump some breastmilk.

I know I haven't gone over the whole breastfeeding experience yet (but believe me, Aquaman, I will!) but if you go for a while without breastfeeding, milk builds up and it starts to hurt. So what the working woman does is get a breastpump so she can a) relieve herself of that "full of milk" pain and b) store up breastmilk so her baby can have a meal while she's gone. So not only do I have to lug around my super huge backpack, I also have to carry around my pumping equipment. Lucky for me, the makers of this equipment realize that and have made it all fit into a manageable, discreet bag.

I went into the bathroom and plugged in my battery pack. I couldn't use the outlet because it was too far from the stall, and I didn't want to stand by the sinks and pump and surprise anyone that came into the bathroom. I started pumping and realized that either my batteries were running low or the pump just had less suction when it was using batteries. It was taking FOREVER. I decided to just go back into the office and use one of the empty offices to pump so I could plug it in.

I stopped by the conference room to tell the guys that I was going to be in one of the offices, so they knew not to walk in on me. The convo went like this:

Me: Hey guys, I'm going to be in the office for a couple minutes, I need to plug this in there
Tony: You don't have to do that, you can just plug it in here (pointing to power strip)
Me: Um, this is my breastpump
Tony: Oh! Wow, uh, yeah, go ahead, go into the office. I thought you were talking about your laptop! Yeah, go pump in the office!

Haha...I love working with guys.

Posted by Yano at July 14, 2006 10:17 AM

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