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Susan: I agree completely with your remarks about appropriate and
necessary pumping. But if you go back and reread my post, I clearly state
that I feel I am seeing an increase in early-onset mastitis as well as
mastitis in general with INAPPROPRIATE AND UNNECCESSARY pumping. The
examples you give are entirely APPROPRIATE AND NECESSARY situations in
which one would encourage pumping. A mother whose baby is exclusively
nursing well, not employed outside the home, and not separated from her
baby who is pumping because "my girlfriend told me to" (this was told to me
by one of my moms, honest, and she was fighting a wicked mastitis at 3
weeks) is not using a pump in an appropriate or necessary fashion.
Viktoria's post (from the Ukraine) seems to bear out my hypothesis.
Mothers are being encouraged to express or pump milk above and beyond their
babies' needs. I think we all know that consistent overproduction is going
to lead to engorgement, plugged milk ducts, mastitis, and in some
(fortunately still rare) instances, breast abcesses. Two things I tell
parents: "Your milk belongs in your baby, not the freezer" and "Too much
milk is as bad for the mother as too little milk is for the baby".
Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL USA
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