This is crazy. She can’t do it at lunch time? Why does it have to be between 9 and 11? This doesn’t seem like an unreasonable question.
Why doesn’t she take all that maternity leave that Clinton gave her?
The trouble is that milk builds up and causes the mother great discomfort - and that only grows greater with the passage of time. And there are a couple of other problems associated that which the ladies here can enlighten you regarding...
Yes, it is absolutely correct that when you breastfeed an infant, you can eventually time/train your body and the baby to a specific feeding schedule, if needed.
Four hours between feedings/expressing is pushing the envelope, as far as breast milk production goes, particularly within the first six months.
I was fortunate in my employer when I had my baby.
I found a daycare facility five minutes away from my workplace, and was able to schedule my “lunch break” much like a diabetic has to schedule timed meals.
No matter what was going on in the office, I had to leave or take a break around 11:00.
It is a natural female bodily function.
Pain sets in quickly if the milk is not expressed.
I agree that requiring a 15 minute break in a scheduled two hour work window sounds odd, but I can tell you that a 7am-1pm instruction to “adjust your breast milk production” is just not physically possible.
If the woman only worked two hours a day, between 9am-11am, I agree that it would be an unreasonable accommodation for her to expect a 15 minute break.
But that doesn't appear to be the case here.
When breasts are full, it’s painful, and they leak. It’s not possible to hold it like when you have to pee. The milk will come out, ready or not.