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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was working in my office one weekend and ran into a woman who had just had twins two weeks prior who was "working".  Parenthood can be scary, and not everyone has experience with kids.  So if you have a good nanny....[/quote]

Why do you assume she was faking it?  I went into labor over a week early, and my son was in NICU for a week so I went into the office one day to wrap up some important business.  I've also come into the office to use the hospital-grade breastpump some days.  Maybe she came in on a weekend because she had help at home and was able to come in for a few hours?[/quote]

There is something so odd to me about going into work to use the office breast pump.  I have never heard of an office providing such a thing for their employees.  Break rooms where you can pump mil in private - yes.  But the actual pump? Never heard of that.[/quote]

It's not uncommon, actually, for a company to provide breast pumps that stay in the pumping room and people take turns using.[/quote]
+1 It’s provided as a benefit so that women don’t have to lug their pumps day in and day out. It’s actually a pretty cheap benefit that provides great value.[/quote]

My work provides hospital grade pumps. We rent the pumps and it's a pretty good benefit for both the moms and the company because not only do women not have to lug their pumps back and forth, the hospital grade pumps are  more efficient than the insurance-provided ones.[/quote]

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