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Date: | Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:25:42 +0100 |
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Anyone heard of these in the UK? I haven't. I like the idea, though....
Someone posted that she found it hard to pump with her foot and do something
else, but I hae years of expereience with a spinning wheel with a foot
pedal, (where you are also doing two different things with your hands as
well!), so this sounds like a great idea. My own days of needing such a
thing are over but I feel 1,000 times more comforatble with the idea of a
pedal pump than other technology and think of the advantages if you live
where elcetirc black-outs are frequent, or if you don't have good sources of
power.
In hand-spinning the rythym of the activity (which is soothing) comes from
the foot action, and this involves the whole body, a concept I like in the
idea of producing milk.... Electric pumps encourage a passive way of
conceptualising expressing, which is not very helpful (and has probably been
deliberately encouraged by manufacturers of these pumps).
Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK
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