Susan Burger wrote:  "And what about all the PROMOTIONAL SAMPLES OF PUMP
equipment in the hospital?  

Those pump parts do NOT work as well as the parts that women purchase.  I
have also seen women sent home with those so-called "free" pump parts that
women are actually paying for when they buy Medela products and cover
Medela's marketing costs.  They do NOT work as well.  Time after time I have
seen how those slightly narrower openings in the promotional breast shields
cause more pain and the slightly narrower tubes cause more pain.  Then
because Medela has given them those parts they have to buy another whole set
of parts when they come home including the tube because by then they have
purchased a Medela pump or rented one. Had their (sic) not been a "MONOPOLY"
of "PROMOTIONAL SAMPLES" from one SINGLE company they would have had the
opportunity of choice of selecting the most functional means of expressing
milk that worked for them, rather than being sent down a path of having to
replace inferior equipment designed to promote a product."

 

Susan - Are you kidding me?  Medela deliberately produces free samples that
have NARROWER shields and tubes, and are causing HARM?  It's not that I am
questioning your assessment but I am flabbergasted that a company would do
that.  It reminds me of the ABM company (ROSS) that distributed a CHEAP hand
pump for the WIC moms, placed a company ABM logo where the mom would be
seeing it all the time while pumping, and coordinated its efforts with the
then owner of the White River pump company (who is now the owner of
PROLACTA).

The lack of ethics in corporations in the USA is disgusting.  My reaction is
to expose them whenever possible and to not do business with them.

NOTE:  I changed the subject line because I know a local Medela rep is a
LACTNET subscriber and reads the posts with Medela in the subject line.  She
needs to see what we think of her company's behavior; then she can bring it
back to Medela and discuss it with management.

Warm regards,

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Westchester County in NYS, USA

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"Children Are Born with the Right to Breastfeed"

 


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