Pumping breast milk at work is a way to produce more breast milk for your baby. Breast milk is the best gift from a mother to her baby. Breastfeeding is one of the best actions to take to ensure the good health of a baby. Therefore, as a breastfeeding mother, you shall continue to breastfeed and stimulate your body to produce more breast milk all the times. One of the ways to ensure you have enough breast milk for your baby at the same time taking care of your career is to plan how to pump your breast milk during work.

Besides playing a role as a mother, a lot of women are also having a successful career. It is not easy to balance the role of being a mother and at the same time success in career. However, at least you could provide your breast milk to your little one to ensure the good health and the best benefits for your baby and yourself. How do you coordinate your breast milk pumping at work in order to continue your breastfeeding?
Firstly, you need to have a well planned nursing and pumping schedule to ensure you can continue to produce more breast milk. The nursing and pumping schedule is totally depended on the nature of your job. My job requires me to spend most of my time in office; therefore, it is not a problem for me to plan my nursing and pumping schedule. Here is my nursing and pumping schedule for reference:

6.00am - wake up in the morning to nurse my baby
8.00am - pump at home before leaving home to work
10.00am - first pumping break in the office
12.00pm - lunch and second pumping break in the office
Between 2.00pm and 3.00pm - third pumping break in the office
6.00pm - arrive home after work and pump at home

Above is a standard schedule. Sometimes, schedule will be adjusted according to different situation. Normally, I will have another two rounds of breastfeed during night time.

Secondly, you need a clean and private place for you to carry out the pumping. Breast milk is the food for your baby, you would not want to settle your pumping in the rest room or toilet. Some of the organizations / companies might not provide a place for breastfeeding mothers to pump breast milk. Hence, you might need to settle yourself in a changing room, locker room, storeroom, or a meeting room. If possible, try to request a private room with at least an armed chair, table with fan or air conditioning system. If you have a room for yourself, that will be a lot easier to solve the problem. The important thing is to ensure you cover your room window with blinds and your room is locked when you are pumping. You would not want the embarrassment of having somebody steps into your room when you are pumping breast milk. If you have a private workstation, in which you feel that it is secure enough for you to pump your breast milk, you could do so, but need to ensure you do something to avoid others to enter your workstation, like putting up a sign, move something to block the entrance etc. If your company already has the facilities for breastfeeding mothers to pump breast milk, then it is lucky that you could fully utilize those facilities.

Thirdly, You might face a lot of difficulties for carrying out milk pumping at work. There might be complaints and criticism from those who does not support breastfeeding. Your superior and your colleagues might feel not comfortable for you having frequent break, and unattended moment when they need you. Therefore, you need to try your best to adjust your pumping schedule to suit your work. There might be unavoidable time in which you have to skip your pumping break, in order to get your job done or meet certain deadline. Therefore, you need to try your very best to let the people around you to understand the purpose and reason of carrying on breastfeeding and the necessary of pumping at work. At the same time, you shall also keep your work in priority to minimize the pumping affects your performance.

Lastly, get the pumping done in the shortest time possible. You are at work, so try not to give a bad impression to your employer that you are using too much of your working time to carry out your pumping, and you need to ensure your employer that your action of pumping breast milk at work does not affect your work performance. In order to get the pumping done fast, you need to have a good and effective breast pump. There are different brand and selection of double breast pumps in the market which allow you to complete your each pumping session fast and easy.

It is not a simple job for breastfeeding mothers to continue stimulate breast milk for baby, and at the same time success in career. However, there is nothing could not happen if you put your best foot forward.