I'm not a police officer but a firefighter.  I was a little concerned about
fighting a fire and pumping milk afterwards.  I usually pumped and dumped the
first bottle after a fire.  Not only could their be lead at a fire, it was
the toxic gases I was concerned with. Plastics especially, when they burn
they give off hydrogen cyanide.

Many years later I had wrote to DR Newmann through a breastfeeding website,
and told him of  my concerns.  At this point I was done nursing my first and
my nursing daughter was about 3 and I was no longer pumping at work for her,
just nursing on my days off, and he said it was not necessary to pump and
dump because none of the toxins were likely to get into the milk.

Now that my children are 6 and 9 and no longer breastfeeding, I do have to
say they are a healthy bunch with no allergies (and they run in my family big
time, I have them) and very minor illness when they have become sick.

Cindy Fagiano
Peer Breastfeeding Counselor

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