{"id":2414,"date":"2014-09-26T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebadassbreastfeeder.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2015-01-27T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:52:08","slug":"breastfeeding-while-on-active-duty-marine-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebadassbreastfeeder.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding While on Active Duty Marine Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Badass Cara<\/p>\n

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I breastfed my daughter while on active duty Marine Corps, actually working as a recruiter which yields 80-120 hour work weeks.During my brief 6 weeks home with her she was exclusively breastfed and when I returned to work I had no choice with the long hours to give her bottles. I used to BF her on one side and pump the other side so my body would get used to making extra so she would never run out. I had my pump in my government vehicle with me, I had plugs, batteries and vehicle plugs. I pumped in subways, cars, high school teacher lounges, my work, and once in the woods parked!<\/span><\/p>\n

My daughter stopped acknowledging that my breasts had food in them around 6-7 months and started biting me because she did that with her bottle to get it to flow faster. I continued to pump for her every 3 hours, waking up in the night even when she wasn’t awake just to make extra.<\/p>\n

Now, at work was an interesting story. Id have some higher ranking men comment on how much they respected me, some rolled their eyes that I got to take “breaks,” while others were downright unprofessional and sexist calling it “operation yoo-hoo.”<\/p>\n

When I stopped pumping I had 3 months extra to continue giving her.
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