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"Karen Kerkhoff Gromada, MSN, RN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:00:25 -0400
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In a message dated 4/24/2003 11:23:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

>  I can't help myself.  I have to say it.  Wipes and sterilzation
> bags would be a total non-issue if women hand-expressed like women did back
> before electricity was invented. Handwashing is the only clean-up
> required.  How many of us actually bother to teach hand expression?  How
> many of us have actaully bothered to learn/use hand
> expression ourselves?


I'm for teaching women about their options. And I can't help myself; I have to say this. I had my 5 babies in the 70s and early 80s. The pumps available today weren't in existence then. I DID hand express to leave milk for the nights I worked after my the births of my first two and I hated it! It got the job done, albeit very slowly and never with a real MER occurring. I had friends who could express tons, using the same technique 'cos I checked it out with them, but for others of us it was any kind of panacea. I'd have given anything to have been able to try the pumps available today.

Different things work better for different moms and babies--both physically and mentally. I'm for whatever will keep a particular mom hanging in. Even with options I find most mothers will choose the convenience and usually speed of an electric pump. Some of that may be socialization re: their peers' experiences. But if I explain options and offer to teach hand expression, yet this mom is more interested in a good pump, I figure it's her call.

Karen

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