Being in a MNC company with multiple awards on worklife balance and breastfeeding friendly award, I do feel lucky to be in a company with nursing facilities. On the downside I feel upset and mad when I hear some colleague(s) who "comments" about me and other nursing mommies. Not one time but many times. No written comments but purely verbal. Mind you, there is NO circular in the company that says :
1. Nursing moms can only express their milk once a day
2. One should only limit their expressing time to the minimal possible
3.Being marked for being away from the workstation for too long
4. Rate of expressing milk should be > 10ml per minute? Hence you only spend 20minutes in the nursing room + 5minutes of moving from the nursing room to the workstation in a total of 25minutes . Therefore, not more than 30minutes should be taken for expressing milk? Mind you, not everyone has the flowing tap that has the same rate all the time at any day!
Yes, I am sore and I need to get this off my chest and have these uncalled for comments about nursing mums would realise what these people saying are totally rubbish. So does that mean expressing milk in the office is making someone much less productive throughout the time she's with the company and affect others' morale? If your wife does not breastfeed, that's her decision. I respect that. But it certainly does not imply that another mother cannot decide to breastfeed and have to bear with such "harrasment" in the company - even though it is not a direct harrasment but it certainly is an insult speaking behind someone's back. I coined this childish and unprofessional. It's a choice a working mother make whether to breastfeed or not and it's a personal choice. So respect it!!! Unless in the employment contract states that one cannot expressmilk during office hour, then you can comment this in office. I don't remember seeing this term in the contract when I signed it 2.5years ago. However, this is not. So, what's your point?! Should I just contact the HR and discuss how to handle this with 'care'???
I don't care if such idiots are reading this in my blog. But I certainly want to make my point clear. I would still choose to breastfeed for my future kid(s).
4 comments:
Interesting, your MNC dun strike me as so narrow minded. I work my own time when i was there...
Unfortunately, there are ugly sides to everything.
It's not easy being a working mother...some people just don't understand. Ya, don't care about those ignorant people... I always believe "what goes around, comes around..." :)
yea.. to put it bluntly, every dog would has its day
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