As a newly post-partum parent , one of the crappier things to deal with is public bathroom pumping.
I tweeted recently about the tribulations of back-to-work pumping. Just repeating for emphasis how much public bathroom pumping sucks, and how we need to make the cultural shift towards widely-available, functional lactation rooms.
https://twitter.com/reappropriate/status/1425879636962013184
The public bathroom I use in a pinch is a barely-trafficked single-stall one with lots of space in the stall far from the toilet where it’s just empty wall.
Still, I’m sitting on the floor of a public bathroom and using my battery power source, bc there is no outlet or chair.
Still, I’m sitting on the floor of a public bathroom and using my battery power source, bc there is no outlet or chair.
It’s just another added stressor to my day to have to have to find both time and space to do this every few hours.
We really need to reimagine our ideas of how to support parents because folks, this just ain’t it.
We really need to reimagine our ideas of how to support parents because folks, this just ain’t it.
Like, rigid hyper focus on hours and lateness. We just got through 1.5 years of shutdown when parents of young kids have had to be duper flexible in EVERYTHING to make work & parenting co-exist. Those pressures haven’t really changed for most of us.
The jarring efforts to boost productivity by emphasizing synchronous meetings and in-person work hours forget that things are still not okay for parents. That even without a pandemic, these things disadvantaged parents.
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