gembreastpump

𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐬.

Not the pumping itself. The room. Everyone else is at the dinner table, sitting round the braai, your toddler is playing on the lounge floor, and you’re sitting somewhere on your own watching millilitres and minutes.

🤍 Odene, one of our Gem mums, said something to me recently that I haven’t stopped thinking about. She said that not being isolated from her family while pumping kept her morale up.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

Gem was never about making pumping look glamorous. It was about not having to leave the room to do it. Sitting on the couch with your family. Finishing an email. Driving where you need to go. Being in the middle of your own life instead of stepping out of it four times a day.

So much changes when you become a mum. Pumping doesn’t have to mean disappearing.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞? Mine was a spare room in a friends house, while everyone was around the braai. Tell me yours, I don’t think enough people say it out loud.

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