>the moms I work with typically have a back supply of
their own milk in the freezer. I encourage this...that they "store up"
during times of high supply.<

I don't know if this is a difference between the UK and the US or the mid 80's,
when I had my first baby, and now, but I am so glad I did not have the extra
pressure to, not only breastfeed my son, but to perform a different and only
related body behaviour by successfully pumping milk out and the housewifely task
of correctly storing it.  If I had thought that that had been a neccessary
component of successful breastfeeding, I think it would have been a huge
negative influence.

I wonder, knowing what we know about embarrassment being one of the entrenched
bars to breastfeeding, how women who are thinking around the decision of how to
feed their baby find the idea of pumping.

I know some find it *more* acceptable (cos no rude body parts of the first party
touch the semi-rude body parts of the party of the second part) but I wonder if
I am the only person to whom it is infinitely *less* acceptable?

I have supported many women with pumping, and hired many pumps, often to mothers
of prem babies, but I cannot adjust my conception of what breastfeeding *is* to
include pumping BY DEFINITION.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Network, UK

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