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Susan Potts wrote:
<< Just to share a sweet family joke.  My dh was raised on a dairy 
farm in North Dakota.  I tease him that now it is my turn to work in 
the lactation field!  Whenever I speak of mastitis, engorgement, 
plugged ducts, colostrum............he knows exactly what I am talking 
about!>>

When I returned to work after my DD was born, I was "requested" to 
attend an overnight board meeting. Megan was 2 months old at the time 
and I was pumping 3-4 times during the work day. My supervisor 
scheduled in breaks, which the chairman took back out.

I simply left the meeting when I felt I needed to, and joked that if 
anyone asked where I was going I would just tell them. The reason I 
would have felt comfortable doing this was that the board members were 
mainly from rural areas of Pennsylvania which is populated with many 
dairy farmers. Some of the board members themselves were dairy 
farmers.  They know that cows *need* to be milked regularly so I felt 
they would understand that I did too.

To add to the working/BF discussion, I feel that a sense of humor is 
as essential as the determination to make it work. My office door had 
a Do Not Disturb Sign and a stuffed cow that hung from the doorknob. 
When anyone asked when I was going to stop *doing that* I simply 
replied, "when Megan is a year old or you start buying her formula" 
That was not an option BTW. :-)

I exclusively BF/bottled EBM for 5 ½ months, and pumped until she was 
13 months.  She did not have any ABM. She weaned at ~20 months. And to 
add to the pacifier discussion, I strongly feel that if we had weaned 
her from that when she was under a year, she would have nursed longer. 
 At almost 3 years old, she still sleeps with her 'bink'.
Jennifer Mowatt
Nursing Mothers' Counselor

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