Finally! No more milk pumping in the restroom

Always watch what fluids flow into your baby

I was fortunate enough to exclusively breastfeed my daughter for six months. Even though I had plans to go back to work after four months which then moved to six months and then indefinitely put on hold because of my separation anxiety as well as other reasons. Had I gone back to work, I don't know how I would have dealt with pumping, working and spending the whole day away from my daughter. From my conversations with a number of new mothers who went back to work after their maternity leave, exclusive breastfeeding was their ultimate resolution until they reported back to the office. Lack of a clean and private place to express, decreased milk supply and lack of support from supervisors forced most of them to abandon their plan and start giving formula to their little ones.

One mother told me that it is one of the most painful experiences she has gone through. She said, "The first week I resumed work was difficult. Since the only place I could express from was the toilet, I only expressed when my breasts became very painful. I was constantly in pain because my breasts were engorged. The toilet was very dirty so I used to throw out the milk for fear of the hygiene risks. By the third week, my milk supply decreased so fast that I stopped pumping and by then my son was barely four months old. To know that I was not able to exclusively breastfeed my son because I had to work made me depressed. Even when I made peace with it, the process of finding the right formula was difficult and very costly."