In einer eMail vom 26-5-04 7:38:54 West-Europa (zomertijd) schreibt
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> of some LC suggesting that mom should let baby set or establish her
> milk supply for a month. Then rent a pump to get used to using it and build
> up a reserve in the freezer before going back to work at 6 weeks. The
> reasoning was that using a pump very early would make mom produce an
> unnaturally high milk supply. Inconvenient for baby's comfort nursing, and
> inconvenient for mom who can only pump when business requirements permit.
>

This does make a lot of sense to me, though. Not to extrapolate it to all
pumping, but for moms who have no lactational or medical reasons to pump, but
just need pumping for those feeds mom and baby are not together., like with
working.
Moms nowadays often seem to think that breastfeeding means feeding a baby at
breast and pump milk for the freezer. They make an awfull lot of fuss about
when to start, how and when to pump, saving milk for pumpings or saving milk for
feedings, scare themselves about declining supplies when pumping has an
occasional lower result, when to start bottlefeeding-training, etc. And, to see the
whole picture: in my part of the world moms have about 10-12 weeks maternity
leave.

Warmly greeting,

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, LLLL
Germany - The Netherlands

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