I was lucky as a teacher librarian to have an office with a high glass window (the bottom of ghe window wasn't too low that anyone could see anything) that I could express in my office with my door mostly shut (so I could hear if I was desperately needed) while still keeping an eye on senior students as I was the teacher on duty most of the time. I was interrupted from time to time to help kids but I'd just pause my expressing for a minute, help student then return to expressing. My library assistant was not supportive at all (thought that I shouldn't be bfing my son or expressing for him while being back at work - that's a whole nother thread - she is rather negative about everything- don't know why she works in a school or in any job that had something to do with customer service).

I used the ice bricks in a cooler bag as it was easier for me than putting stuff in the fridge in the library. I did however use that fridge for my pump parts in a ziplock bag during the day.

I expressed up to 4 times a day depending on if I had meetings after school or not. Usually I ended up with a bit more than what DS needed for the next day of care without me as I was working full time so excess went to freezer at home.

I shifted schools (and went back to fulltime classroom teaching) when ds was about 18mths old and as I was still expressing, I ended up expressing in the toilets but in a waiting area on a couch with a bfing wrap over me in case people came in - but only did that once a day during a free lesson -was glad when ds decided that he didn't need a day feed anymore before the end of term 1 (about 20mths old) and I could drop the express as I really needed the prep time.

This time around I will be expressing in my office (with one way glass so can still see students as required) but I have a supportive library assistant so am actually looking forward to expressing at work. Currently SA Ed dept. schools need to provide at least 1/2 hr expressing time per day for the first year of child's life that doesn't count towards their face to face or prep time at school. Doesn't quite support the WHO recommendation of bfing until 2yrs but at least it's something in the right direction. Hopefully I won't have to go back to full time classroom teaching until at least after this one coming will be not wanting day feeds with DH or at childcare.


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