Breast milk in the fridge @ work
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Breast milk in the fridge @ work
| Mon, 12-18-2006 - 8:40pm |
OK... let's just say that you are in the lunch room refrigerator at work and you reach for you lunch and accidentally brush your arm against somebody's BREAST MILK container!!!! Isn't this a biohazard??? Because it's a bodily fluid, and it's next to my lunch. Just like urine, just like blood. Can't it carry hepatitis and stuff??? Either way, when it's not your milk, it's not a "beautiful thing". There are 2 women currently taking breaks...I mean "pumping"...several times a day, while I have their patients sitting there staring at me because they ALWAYS run late. Well this one time, women #1 took woman #2's breast milk home by mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then they came to work the next day and laughed about it!!! Eeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!! And that time I couldn't help but say "I'm sorry you guys, but that's disgusting!" to which they give me the "you don't understand because you're single" look. Anyone else have this happen??? They both leave early because they get time during the day to do their paperwork between patients while they're pumping (and while I'm getting their patients started and relinquishing my paperwork time) and I have to stay later!!!

Ew. Ew. Ew.
That is a little gross.
I too have a breast pumping story. One of my old co-workers who now happens to be one of my closest friends breast fed for a year. She'd have to take two breaks per day to pump and sometimes at inopportune moments. I remember thinking, sheesh how long is this girl going to breast feed this kid.
Anyway, she's moved now and just had her second little girl. She had been pumping every day for 3 or 4 months, in a utility closet at work (she shares an office with another person). The closet didn't lock so she had to put a note on it every time she went in to pump. Well, she was sitting there, in the utility closet pumping one day when she looked over and noticed a fairly large space between two pieces of dry wall and could plainly see the guy whose desk is directly across from the closet!? She was so mortified that she started her little girl on formula that very night.
ROFL that is hysterical.
A woman at work pumped but she has an office with blinds and a door that locks so it was no big deal and I never saw the bottles in the fridge so I don't know what she did with the bottles afterwards. Either she put them in a bag that was inconspicuous or she had them in a cooler in her office.
Smile,
Deirdre
That is SO gross.
Germs. Would you eat out of a pot that had been in the ladies room stall? In the "olden days" ladies rooms used to have a couch where they could sit and do such thing, but now most of them just have stalls. Lets face it, thats just not sanitary.
My exboss, now a stay at home mom, luckily had a locking office and one of those plug in bags that kept the milk cold.
Another girl who works in our building and luckily not my dept came in to show off her kid and breast fed in the cafeteria. Grossed me out. Men and women were clearly uncomfortable, but she of course was oblivious. I know some states, Georgia being one of them, moms have a Right to breastfeed whereever, but dang, she could have used a towel or something. I don't want to know my co-workers that intimately.
DeAnn
Angela
Proud to be a breastfeeding mom!
Angie
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