> Hola Lactnetters!  This question did not come as a surprise to me, but
> bothered me.  I recently bought a hospital grade double pump and donated
> half of my office to be a lactation station at work.  This place has been
> advertised as a place for women to come and pump when they come back to
> work and want to pump and take their expressed milk home.  An employee
> called me today and said she had been to a breastfeeding class at the
> hospital where she plans to deliver and she was told that you should never
> share pumps.  The LC told her to buy her own (which she sells).

What a great idea of you to offer this service to working moms! Keep on doing
so. As long as each mom has her own personal set of parts that come in contact
with her milk and/or her skin, and all equipment is used as meant to, there
should not be any reason to doubt safety.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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