All the other great stories about where people have pumped inspires me to
tell mine.  When my first baby was about 5 months old I worked on a
postpartum floor with another nurse who'd recently had a baby.  We took our
breaks together and pumped together. This was 18 years ago.... she was using
hand-held bicycle-horn style pumps, one on each breast;  she'd squeeze the
bulb, stick it on, lean over and eat her sandwich for a few minutes, empty
the pump and re-apply.  Got lots of ounces that way, and so she had
hands-free pumping long before it was popular!  (I cringe to think of the
milk but...)  I used a unique hand-expression style, couldn't eat my dinner
but could get a *lot* of milk in a short time by hand-expressing both sides
at once.  How?  Use a paper coffee cup - the kind with handles.  Thread your
middle finger through the handles, lean over, place breast so that the edge
of cup is compressing lower breast and nipple is aimed into cup.  Compress
with thumb (so upper compression is caused by thumb, lower compression by
cup).  It worked great.  Note:  you can do this with "real" coffee cups but
compressing against the cold glass is not as comfortable.  We had a *lot* of
fun seeing who got the most on any given day.  I don't remember her
"record," but mine was 11 ounces.  (!)

Mary Renard
Vienna VA  USA