The whole question about used pumps vexes me and so normally I try to stay
pretty far away from it.  I do however have some sincere questions:  Seems
to me that the whole question of disease transmission is purely theoretical.
Have there been reports of women or babies infected via a used pump?  Why
don't the pump manufacturers enclose the motor like they do with hospital
grade pumps or put some filter or something in the lines?  Isn't the Purely
Yours designed this way already? Besides, if a pump grows this icky stuff,
it's dangerous to a single user as well.  Wouldn't one notice if milk backed
up into the motor?  Would the equipment continue to function well if it did?
I always tell mothers who are asking the risks as outlined by the FDA.

I sometimes wonder why a woman who could afford to buy a double electric
pump (and has purchased matching everything for a nursery before the 3rd
trimester) quibbles over $100 dollars if there is any question at all about
safety.  BUT, for women who NEED a double electric pump to return to a
minimum wage job and really WANT to continue breastfeeding I wonder how much
will be too much to pay for a pump.

Really hoping for some answers and not looking to start a LactWar.
Dawn Martin
Austin, TX

----- Original Message -----

> What about Hepatitis? or what really worries me more than anything, is if
> mil is backed up into the motor, molds and bacteria of the general kind
> growing in there , that is what I think is much more likely to survive in
a
> pump. I personally tell moms what the FDA has to day about used pump, and
> then tell them it is their decision, that I am there to help them make an
> informed one
> .
> Cindy
>

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