Where do you live? $14k for 2 kids is crazy cheap. I paid about $26k last year for 1.

I work at a  hospital and like half the employees are women of childbearing age. There are 3 pumping rooms on campus, but it’s not nearly enough considering the number of people who are just coming back from maternity leave at any given time. After I had my first son, I found out that in order for everyone to get to…

Yuuup fulltime aka 7:30 am-6 pm and five days a week. It’s actually a neighborhood daycare and cheaper than the nannyshare that we were in beforehand. I’m in the Bay Area so childcare costs are stupid high.

Oh yeah, it has saved me many thousands of dollars over the years. My kid is now 7 and needs care before and after school, so I am still taking advantage of the discount. AND they had a sweet deal with the daycare where we could get in at the head of the line for childcare which was good as infant care is hard to…

I was about to say “45k?!” then realized we pay $27k for one baby...so yeah. Jesus babies are expensive.

I work nights and weekends at a corporate bookstore that rhymes with Smarmes and Cobles and I got in trouble last week for drinking water while working. We are only allowed to have water while on a break which means when I work a 9 hour shift which I do every weekend I can only have water for 30 minutes a day. Retail…

HOLY SHIT. I will stop complaining about my $14,500 for 2 kids last year. Jesus. 

Wait, there isn’t a private space? I have never pumped or anything, but I know the laws here (as in the Netherlands) mandate a private space with a door with a lock, and a separate fridge (that fridge can be in another room, it just has to be there) to store breastmilk away from food etc. That space may not be a…

after my first child, they claimed i could use the conference room, and installed a lock, as they are legally mandated to provide a space. but it didn’t logistically make sense. shutting the shades on the huge windows and then bending down into the corner where the only outlet was didn’t seem to be the best solution.…

*rolls eyes in sympathy*

I am fortunate enough to have a job where I have my own private office in which I can pump, and do so multiple times a day without anyone giving me any trouble about it or frankly even batting an eye. I’m jealous of your daycare benefits though, the costs for mine are legit shocking (almost $45k for 2 kids, which is…

I worked at a University that had procedures in place, but apparently they stopped in the male-dominated physics department.  I had to walk 3 buildings over for a hygienic, safe, and private space.  

One of my co-workers pumps. She has a chair in the corner of the storage room, with ancient framed pictures around it for decoration, and she puts a red tag on the doorknob which means “lactating mother - do not enter”.

Well that’s because women shouldn’t be working anyway! Especially mothers! Creating a hostile working environment for breastfeeding mothers will help families by pushing women back into the home where they belong! (/s, obvs)

Someone once argued with me that lactating women shouldn’t have any objections to pumping in bathrooms because “milk is just a bodily secretion like urine or poop anyway.” I was a decade away from motherhood at that point, but I still wanted to mix poop in his cereal and see if he continued to believe that milk and…

not surprising, still upsetting. 

My wife is currently breast feeding and I’ve seen her, out of nowhere, suffer the miserable, feverish symptoms of mastitis after fairly minor shifts in feeding patterns. And my wife works from home with the freedom to pump (or feed) on her (and baby’s) schedule!

I went to a conference a few years ago, like three weeks after returning to work from maternity leave. And work conferences - they’re always like “let our coordinators know if you need anything!” But they couldn’t seem to figure out how to accommodate my need to pump and their coordinator (who was a woman) suggested…

This is deeply fucked up and my heart goes out to her, and others in her situation. It’s ironic, “family values” politicians do nothing to actually help families.

This is a HUGE problem pretty much everywhere, and it sucks. You can get feverish pre-full-mastitis, and it happened to me pretty quickly.