https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:32:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434795 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:06:51 +0000 Anagram 434795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This thread makes me feel SO guilty about an incident a few years ago. I was teaching in a middle school and had to teach a mandatory after-school tutoring twice a week for kids who were struggling to get ready for the state test.</p> <p>My principal wanted all the after school things to be confined to one hall, so I was assigned another teacher's room. I had 8th period as my planning period, so I would typically go to that teacher's room the last 15 minutes of the day, lay out the workbooks, write on the board, and generally prepare for after school. She also had planning period, so I wasn't interrupting her class.</p> <p>Except one day it was locked (her door window was always covered, so I couldn't tell if anyone was inside). I knocked a few times and no one answered, so I went and got one of the V.P.'s to unlock her door (assuming she's had to leave early for some reason) and the VP and I BOTH walked in on her, facing us at the door, hooked up to her electric pumper.</p> <p>I think we were ALL mortified. I felt awful! But I also wondered why she didn't have a sign or why she never told me she pumped before going home.</p> <p>I didn't know her well at all, since she'd been out the first semester on Maternity leave, so I just felt like the worst person ever!</p> <p>I still work in a school, so this is an issue I'll have to figure out for myself for next school year when I start back. I do have a back room in my library, but half the school has a key, so I'll have to have a sign or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434762 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:50:31 +0000 T.H.O.U. 434762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sloaneandpuffy: Like this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434687 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:22:40 +0000 mamimami 434687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hate that! It scares the milk! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434682 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:21:29 +0000 Modern Daisy 434682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There is a designated pumping room at my work, that is all it is supposed to be used for and there are signs everywhere stating that, but some people ignore it and eat their lunch in there anyway. Once my coworker had signed the room out during lunch and had to kick out a guy who was eating a smelly onion sandwich and she said it stunk like onions the whole time she was pumping! The guy seemed to know he wasn't supposed to be in there though, which is absolutely infuriating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434596 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:42:13 +0000 keiki_mama 434596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pump with my chair prepped up against the door. My door doesn't have a lock and someone walked in on me once... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434575 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:29:57 +0000 mediagirl 434575@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, I don't have a lock!!! People here just KNOW don't open my door or knock if it's closed. It was the idiot IT guy. I should have known - no one else would have done that. Guess I need to make a sign now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434566 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:23:39 +0000 mamabolt 434566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always lock my door just in case! The first week I was back my one coworker did knock and I just said, I'll be out in five minutes! Since then I think they have figure out that if the door is closed, I'm pumping! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434558 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:20:12 +0000 babynumber1 434558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOL that happened to me at work all the time. I would ignore it. One time the maintenence guy used his key to get in! I'm not sure who was more embarrased, me or him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434553 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:15:22 +0000 matador84 434553@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am a teacher, I lock my door, cover the window AND have a sign on it that says "if this door is locked and the window is covered I am busy and do not come in!!" I am so paranoid a kid will walk in while I'm pumping! I started wearing a nursing cover just in case! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pumping-and-someone-just-knocked-on-my-door#post-434550 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:12:54 +0000 mediagirl 434550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>GAH! What do you do?? I ignored it and hunched down on my desk so if they came in they wouldn't see anything... </p>