> 10/6/09
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> Marianne Vanderveen said “I am in need of one or more articles
> showing that fulltime pumping is a risk factor for bf duration.”
I'm afraid I don't have any articles, but I have anecdotal evidence.
Basically exclusive expressing is very hard work. Breastfeeding
starts difficult, and time consuming, and gets easier. Expressing
starts difficult and gets harder. A lot of mums choose to express
because they feel it is more discrete, and while bottle feeding is
more discrete, expressing most definitely isn't. If you aren't
confident going out and breastfeeding with a small amount of flesh
showing and baby finishing quickly, you are never going to be willing
to express in public, so you will feel very tied down. Then there's
the fact that it really does get harder, after a while it seems to
take longer and longer to get the same amount of milk, mums refer to
this as pump resistance. The breasts just don't letdown for the pump
as well as for the baby, and while a three month old baby can get
enough milk in 10 minutes, a breast pump rarely can manage that. Also
for the breastfeeding mother it is more than just the milk, for the
expressing mum it is all about the milk, so once baby starts solids,
there is less reason to keep going. I am a member of a list for
exclusive expressers who express due to circumstances, rather than
choice, these are mums who have breastfed other children for 2 or more
years, or who desperately wanted to breastfeed their baby for 2 or
more years, and very few of them manage to last 12 months. Some keep
going for ages, but these mums usually have babies with serious health
issues. One mum is still expressing for her 30 month old, who only
drinks EBM, still doesn't eat solids, so she has incentive, most give
up when their baby is onto solids, usually around 10 months.
Jenny Doncon
Breastfeeding Counsellor, Australia
EPed 26 months (read my weaning diary here: http://www.lrc.asn.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40015
and the rest of my story here: http://www.lrc.asn.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41257
)
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