I am in trouble. I just had my pumping break and found that I somehow left my flanges at home. This is a big problem because I had to use most of my frozen stash recently because I accidentally ate milk (LO is MSPI), so I gave her frozen for 3-4 days which burned through almost all of my stash.

And since I got sick, I barely make enough to feed LO. She won't take Neocate (we've been trying). And now I can't pump at work.

=( I don't know if I should leave work (which looks SO bad because I've already been missing a lot of work for LOs sicknesses) and take half personal day, wait it out (i'll be going from 6 am-4 pm with no pumps--oh god) or...?

There are no stores close enough to me to buy new flanges, plus I work in a school and can't just leave. I tried to hand express but I've never really done it before, so it took me 20 minutes to get 1.5 oz and I normally pump 5-6 oz.

F me.....

What is the trick to hand expressing? I'm totally guessing here.