On 6/4/2013 5:38 AM, Karleen Gribble wrote:
> Since when is having a single double phase pump essential to maintaining a milk supply with a pump?? Enlighten me please...

Karleen, who is talking about maintaining a milk supply? The issue is in 
(yet another) unfunded mandate.
Insurance companies are required to provide pumps, but are not required 
to provide the efficient ones. So some insurances are covering hand 
pumps only :(.

Just saw a new patient - a 2 mo old baby who just had a heart surgery in 
one of the best US children's hospitals. In the diaper bag was a very 
cute cooler with the logo of that hospital and the sign that they are 
proud to support the breastfeeding. The cooler was filled with... 
formula bottles, as mother lost her milk "because of the stress and 
despite of all the pumping she did". Guess what - mother was using the 
hand pump provided by her insurance and nobody before (neither in our 
local pediatric clinic nor in the big best hospital) did ask what pump 
she had.

Alla
Alla Gordina, MD, IBCLC, FAAP

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