Thread: Breastfeeding and such

Jessica - Is there anywhere in the back of the store that you can go to have some privacy? I don't have my own office either, so I used the "guest office" that we had for when the bigwigs come to visit. I'm not sure if we have an open office any more, so I may end up using a conference room and just making a "Do not disturb" sign for the door since the conference room doors don't lock.

Alissa, I was doing some serious store walking the other day to see if I was forgetting anything. Every dept has a freezer (that's not happening! it's 30 below in there!), we have one breakroom that's completely open, the door WONT close and doesn't have a lock. There's two engine rooms, but we aren't allowed in there for safety purposes. There's two offices, one has a camera, one doesn't. The one that doesn't is constantly filled with people. There IS a little storage room in the back with me. It's for pharmacy related paperwork. It doesn't have a lock right now, but no one ever goes in it and I think they're thinking of putting a lock on it for HIPPA reasons. That could work, it's in the back corner of the backroom (where I work anyway) and it's so loud back there, no one would hear the machine AND I could peek out and know if anyone was coming. I'll ask my boss about that later, it's super weird asking my male boss about where I can pump my breast milk. LMAO

Thank you everyone, I do plan to try it. I'm just really nervous about it and about how I'll react. I dont want to stress baby out b/c I'm all tense the whole time, ya know? Thank you for all the advice and support! I really do appreciate it.

Originally Posted by babywings1

Alissa, I was doing some serious store walking the other day to see if I was forgetting anything. Every dept has a freezer (that's not happening! it's 30 below in there!), we have one breakroom that's completely open, the door WONT close and doesn't have a lock. There's two engine rooms, but we aren't allowed in there for safety purposes. There's two offices, one has a camera, one doesn't. The one that doesn't is constantly filled with people. There IS a little storage room in the back with me. It's for pharmacy related paperwork. It doesn't have a lock right now, but no one ever goes in it and I think they're thinking of putting a lock on it for HIPPA reasons. That could work, it's in the back corner of the backroom (where I work anyway) and it's so loud back there, no one would hear the machine AND I could peek out and know if anyone was coming. I'll ask my boss about that later, it's super weird asking my male boss about where I can pump my breast milk. LMAO

That sounds like it could work, if it doesn't have a lock you could always make a sign to put up while you are pumping. That should warn off anyone who might try to go in and if not, I'm sure they won't make the same mistake twice, lol! Hopefully your boss will be accommodating!

Originally Posted by Cherrychip

That sounds like it could work, if it doesn't have a lock you could always make a sign to put up while you are pumping. That should warn off anyone who might try to go in and if not, I'm sure they won't make the same mistake twice, lol! Hopefully your boss will be accommodating!

Yes, I agree. Hopefully even a sign on the door will be enough to give you the privacy you need.