Cindy,

If a mom properly cleans and sterilizes a  hand pump, why not?  We are smart
people.  We are capable of correctly sterilizing things with some
instruction. Now some of the electric pumps pose a different problem with
possible milk that could have gotten into the motor and could breed germs.  I
think each situation has to be evaluated independently.

When my mother worked as a nurse, in the 30's and 40's,  they had glass
syringes with stainless steel needles and hubs.  They resterilized them all
the time.   It is the pump companies that don't want any liability in our
"law suit happy" society, and I can't blame them.  If they say not to share a
used pump and someone does, it is on the mother's own liability, not that of
the pump company.  I don't blame the companies, but think it is a terrible,
terrible waste for a perfectly good pump, not one of the painful/poor
quality/junk pumps,  to be thrown away and not recycled through another
mother, when all she needs to know is how to properly scrub and boil it.
Jane Bradshaw  RN, BSN, IBCLC
(The most avid recycler in the state of Virginia)
Reduce--Reuse--Recycle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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