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>Hello, I spoke to my best friend a few days ago . The conversation added to
>the discussion on this list still bothers me. she had a baby girl 5 weeks
>ago. This is a baby number 4. The baby was born pre-term. The lungs did not
>function properly and had to be inflated. Then she was on ventilator, got
>pneumonia, got a punctured lung.


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Henya - that vignette is very moving. It sounds as if you posted  it 
to remind us that some mothers and babies desperately need effective 
ways of getting breastmilk other than directly from their mothers, 
and that the use of an efficient pump has a role -  especially in the 
iniquitous situation you describe whereby a tiny, sick, pre-term baby 
is denied appropriate hospital care because insurance won't pay and 
because there is no further maternity leave available to the mother 
(dear heavens above - what a system......politics is OT for Lactnet 
and rightly so, but no prizes for guessing what my views are on that 
one).

No one is denying that mothers need efficient pumps - I don't think 
it is realistic for any mother to hand express round the clock for 
days and nights.

But pump manufacturers should market their products ethically. 
Ethical marketing would not deny mothers access to pumps, for 
whatever reason - life-saving or not.  Ethical marketing has nothing 
to do with the reasons why a mother uses a pump.

I hope your friend and her baby find life, and health, easier as time goes by.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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