A lil here, A lil there: Motherhood: It's never enough

My company has been undergoing major reno for the past months to revamp the look of the building and work stations. Two years ago when I first joined the company, the "nursing room" was miserable. I can't even call it a room for crying out loud cause it was just some extra space that they turn it into a 'room' for women to express their milk. The 'room' wasn't even in the shape of a square. It was almost like a triangle, except, going back to Trigonometry (I have to Google this), imagine the hypotenuse to be a curve inwardly towards point C as oppose to a straight line. That was the oddly shape nursing room placed at Ground Floor of the building.

There was a small table, placed at point B, an ancient old tech fridge with a freezer that often forms 'ice berg' that you have to defrost every month but knowing how selfish everyone is and that nobody really gives a tiny rat's ass about the fridge unless it's affecting them directly only will they call for the workers to defrost it over the weekend, placed at point A. And four chairs. So obvious how much my company could care less for women who breastfeed. Nevertheless, I express my milk for a year long in that stink hole even though Ezra has never drink from the Expressed Breast Milk (EBM). And among those women who expressed, we became pretty acquainted and enjoyed each others company.

Fast forward to another year later, here I am back to expressing, except that this time the room has shifted to Level 4 since the renovation is still on going, floor by floor. So temporarily, again they partitioned a portion of an extra place and convert it to a nursing room. It was still miserable. It was part store room part nursing room. The picture will explain everything. Despite it being a temporary room, it's frustrating to see some irresponsible users who just litter all over the place when they tear open their storage milk bags. Already the room is so tiny and space is so limited, people still insist on bringing in their laptop which I really don't understand why. Instead of spending an hour in the room, taking your own sweet time to express your milk, hogging all the space why don't you just finish pumping in 30 mins time and return to work. It's way more efficient than having to bring your laptop to the room, expressing with one hand, another hand typing, occasionally facebooking. It's despicable to see.

. My first day back at work after my maternity leave. Imagine my horror. The freezer with 'iceberg' forming

The second miserable looking nursing room on 4th Floor

Moving on, so I guess after numerous request from several women of having a proper nursing room, my company has decided to give us breastfeeding moms a proper room. One that is not made from leftover space from parts of the building. This time, a real decent room, pretty well equipped for which I am very thankful for. It has a built in table top with sink and places to store our bags. It lacks power points since there are numerous women who uses electrical pump. But there's always extension. It's not the best obviously. For the dumbest reason, they installed a door with a see through glass in the middle for a nursing room. What in the world?!?! There's stupid, and then moron and then imbecile. I don't know where to place the person who is responsible for the design of the room! Obviously there are better nursing room. But whatever it is, we have a proper room now. When given what they asked for, and instead of being thankful, requests after requests just keeps pouring in. Already we're given a room that can fit more people, more comfortable, there are actually requests for a TV, a rack space for whatever reason they need it for, a microwave, a new fridge, and more cabinets. As we started using the room this week, and you would think people would be more grateful for a new room but no, I still see stupid habits here and there. I still see women bringing in their laptops hogging the whole damn room! It's reaaaaaally reaaaaally frustrating to see. When they spill their milk on tables, they don't bother wiping. There are those that store their milk in the freezer for the whole week long and only to bring it back on Fridays. Some place their bags of bottles in the fridge. It's not a huge fridge, it's just a single door fridge. And it frustrates me to see that these women can't be courteous enough to be a responsible and considerate user of the nursing room. That's how ungrateful people can be.

New Nursing Room, view from the outside

From the inside with see through glass. At this point, it was already 'covered' with a blurred sticker so that nobody can peek in. Can you imagine? The guy asked, do you want a half sticker or full for the see through portion?What so we can show people our boobs???? Idiot