Dear Friends:
    Please remember that pump companies make money when women make milk, NOT
when women breastfeed. Their marketing has also worked; women want pumps
because they are breastfeeding.
    One does not need a pump to breastfeed.
    Like formula, pumps have their specific uses and importance. (At least
until there is a milk bank in every city where there is a NICU.) They are some
of many tools at our command. They are not for routine use, nor are their
marketing practices any more ethical or better than any other company.
    Please consider the impact of using company publications and related
materials, whether it comes from the formula or the pump companies. Breastfeeding
helpers get used to sell pump products just as hospital staff gets used to
sell formula.
    warmly,
    Nikki Lee

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