Linda Bubeck IBCLC <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I teach a working moms pumping class at Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North
> Carolina.  Frankly all this CODE discussion has me very concerned regarding
> ethics as an IBCLC.  Perhaps I need to give my class written notice that I do
> not endorse any pump company.  And then too I should probably skip the part
> where I show them the Pump in Style and the Purely Yours pumps; 
> concentrate more on hand expression. Tell them that they are own their own
> with regards to electric pumps. 

I don't think  you are required to do this, as a person who is assisting
and informing rather than selling. These mums are already going to be
working and pumping, so you're not going to be encouraging them to
separate or to breastmilkfeed; you do need to assist them to do so
effectively. 

The way I see it the worst case scenario out of completely ignorant
pumps - and I see this over and over in my acquaintance-circle - is that
they'll go and buy the cheapest electrical pump they can find; they'll
get out very little milk with this rubbish formula-company pump (or
worse, be injured by the pump and/or get mastitis); they'll decide that
this pumping gig is not for them, or worse that they "don't have enough
milk" at all, and they'll switch to formula.

I think it's important to inform working mothers who have no choice but
to separate on how to most effectively express for them, be that hand
expression, a manual pump, or an _effective_ electric pump of
appropriate quality, and how to  use it in a way that works with their
lifestyle and workplace (eg handsfree pumping while doing paperwork,
etc). Withholding unbiased, useful information (as opposed to
withholding advertising!) doesn't serve anyone.

Lara Hopkins

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