Susan Burger wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I don't see how a quality pump enables you to have more time for your baby.  If you are
> pumping at work, you're away from your baby anyway.  It would only take away time from
> your break time.  That has everything to do with mom and nothing to do with the baby
> except maybe if it makes mom so cranky she doesn't want to spend time with the baby.
> That's a bit of a logical stretch.  If, on the other hand, you decide the baby feeds too slowly
> --- pump --- and then give a bottle, you are still not really adding more time in for your
> baby and in fact taking away from time you spend with a baby.  This is the most frequent
> complaint I hear from moms who pump to build a milk supply.
>
> What an efficient pump might do would be to increase the milk you're able to give to your
> baby.  That had NOTHING to do with quality time with your baby --- except perhaps to
> reduce the risk of illnesses from formula.  Again, I think that is a stretch.
>   
Well, consider this scenario.  A mother is nursing and goes back to 
work.  She cannot keep the baby with her.  She uses a low quality pump, 
and so her pumping takes up more time than the allotted breaks.  Thus, 
she is expected to stay at work longer than the standard hours so that 
her actual 'work time' is the same as other workers.  If this mother 
changed to a more effective pump, she could get home to her baby earlier 
and so have more time with baby.

Also, consider a mother who is pumping to bring in a supply in the early 
days because baby is having difficulty (or even hospitalized).  The more 
time it takes this mother to pump, the more time she is away from her baby.

I'm not saying that the ad isn't a little shady, just that there is a 
valid point that a good pump as opposed to a bad pump can allow more 
time with baby.

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