EBM in Aircraft Toilet

LazyBone: “Excuse me, I need to use the toilet for about 30 min to express my breastmilk. I just want to inform you first, so you are aware of this and won’t wonder what happen to me whether I fainted in the toilet or not.”

Crew: “Oh, sure, I’ll let my colleagues know as well.”

---- in the toilet ---

[Ding-dong! Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, tanda isyarat memasang tali keledar baru dipasangkan. Sila kembali ke tempat duduk anda dan pasangkan tali keledar….]
LazyBone: “Oh! Not again!!! I was just half way through, why is the ride so bumpy! Should I continue or should I quit and go back to my seat??!!”

--- back to the cabin ---
[open and close the toilet door]
Crew: “Hi! How was the session? Was it ok?”

LazyBone: “Oh! I had to end earlier due to the announcement.”

Crew: “Well, actually you can still continue to express in the toilet…”

LazyBone: “Really? Then I better go back and finish it off.”

Crew: “… but it may just spurt to everywhere in the toilet! Hahahahaha!”
(burst into laughter)

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My job requires a lot of traveling. As a breastfeeding and frequent-travel mother, expressing in the aircraft is like everyday life to me. What I hate most when expressing in the aircraft is when the whether turns bad. It gets very frustrating when half way doing my ‘business’, suddenly the plane got bumpy and seat belt sign turned on. I always have to choose between to risk my life continue expressing in the small toilet, or to stop expressing and return to my seat.

Unfortunately, it was just my luck that almost EVERYTIME when I expressed in the plane I experienced this. Most of the time I would just ignore and continue expressing – who would want to give up when the let-down just started?!

Today, I was on my way to Beijing, same thing happened. The above was my conversation with the airline crew. He was a very humorous guy, with a wife who is breastfeeding a baby less than 3 month old. He was very interested to find out how to store and keep ebm – which I regretted very much that I didn’t bring with me the MMB brochure!