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Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:32:03 +0200
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Thanks, Lara, for the corrective reminder that there may be women who were
already pumping but didn't have their pumps.  Embarrassed that I needed
that!  I don't know that I had any assumptions underlying my post about the
motivation for pumping.  I was thinking only of women who were not now
lactating - and how pumping is often recommended to build supply for
relactation, such as when an adoption is anticipated.  The thought was that
in an emergency, we should be trying to get the babies to the breast rather
than introducing yet another new 'thing'.  The notion that someone might
choose expressing milk over putting baby to breast due to psychological
discomfort has been hinted at by others.  I do think if a woman is not comfy
with having the baby suckle in the crowded circumstances we have seen in the
news, she is likely to feel uncomfortable with using a pump as well, and so
I wonder what good a pump would do in that case.
As you point out, there may be a real need for pumps for mothers separated
from their babies who need to maintain supply.  I would only want to send
pumps I would vouch for in that case, and not something I had been sent as
part of a marketing campaign and had no use for.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway 

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