I recently became involved in a GLOW MERG to look at lactation rooms at Rochester. We are curious what your stories of pumping at work are? I am looking for anything from ANY site in the enterprise. Good and bad stories about finding a place to pump. Please share! @bettinahalvorson @paigelmi @lindseymarx @BethFlattum calling you ladies out as you all expressed (pun intended!) some feelings on pumping/working in previous posts.
That was only when the Epic Training was in house. Ever since we went live I had no problem at all. I never have to wait but it looks like there is a couple more women due soon so I think eventually it would be great to have a different option then just going downstairs to see if a room is available but rather be able to book it through outlook or somewhere on the intranet in order to not waste any work time.
I used the lactation rooms at St. Marys when breastfeeding my oldest (now 3 yo). Relatively good experience, but most of the time I had to wait for a room or go to a different building to try and find an empty room. They never felt very clean and always had spilled milk and lunch remains from all of the use. I always brought disinfecting wipes and took some time to wipe down the pump, chair, table, etc. before I started pumping. I don't need to use a lactation room with my 2nd baby as I have a private office. I like the convenience of being able to pump whenever I want and not feel like I am wasting time locating an open lactation room, but I miss having a sink (not in a break room or bathroom) to wash my parts.
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I absolutely love the rooms here at the 41st professional building where I work. We have two rooms located on the second floor and one over on the NW clinic. For me, I only have to walk downstairs to use one of the rooms since I work on the third floor. You don't even have to carry your breast pump around since there is a medical grade (Medela) pump provided in both the rooms with a sink and a nice rocking chair. The only thing that bugged me at the beginning was that the Epic training was in that location and you never knew if there was a room open because you can't schedule it in advance but rather use the white board on what time you would be done with pumping (which some people even forget to add). I think if there would be an option to schedule the rooms it would be a lot easier and I wouldn't have had to walk the stairs multiple times a day in order to not use any more of my work time than I already had.
But all in all it is great. At my old job I had to use a meeting room and had to add Cardboard boxes in front of the windows (Not very comfortable).