Dear Friends:
There are many different reasons for this choice. Some are:

1) I have to go back to my job in 6 weeks, so might as well start doing what
I will be doing.
2) They started me pumping in the hospital because my baby wouldn't latch on
so pumping must be more reliable.
3) I am not comfortable with the idea of a baby sucking on me (for whatever
reason, conscious or unconscious).
4) I was given 2 pumps at my baby shower; every list I see in American Baby
and all those other magazines tells me I need a pump to breastfeed.
5) It is easier for me to keep my life the way it was before I had the baby
if I pump and someone else feeds my baby.
6) My baby was in NICU and I got a routine going.
7) Breastfeeding always hurt and pumping doesn't.
8) I like seeing what I make and knowing how much my baby gets.
9) My family doesn't like me breastfeeding. Everyone wants to feed the baby.
This way she gets my milk and my family is happy.
10) Breastfeeding is so complicated and pumping is easier.

What do you all think?

My suspicion is that mothers and babies are so disconnected from each other
afrter most hospital  births (I feel sick every time I write that because
what a terrible thing it is if the mother doesn't go home from the hospital
loving, or at least intensely curious about, her new baby) that pumping
carries through  with the notion that the mother can do some good things for
her baby without being too involved.

warmly,and sadly too

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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