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Date: | Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:57:45 -0500 |
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Dear all:
I don't see how a quality pump enables you to have more time for your baby. If you are
pumping at work, you're away from your baby anyway. It would only take away time from
your break time. That has everything to do with mom and nothing to do with the baby
except maybe if it makes mom so cranky she doesn't want to spend time with the baby.
That's a bit of a logical stretch. If, on the other hand, you decide the baby feeds too slowly
--- pump --- and then give a bottle, you are still not really adding more time in for your
baby and in fact taking away from time you spend with a baby. This is the most frequent
complaint I hear from moms who pump to build a milk supply.
What an efficient pump might do would be to increase the milk you're able to give to your
baby. That had NOTHING to do with quality time with your baby --- except perhaps to
reduce the risk of illnesses from formula. Again, I think that is a stretch.
Brilliant advertising in terms of what every mother wants to hear --- but not a good
message for breastfeeding or even really presenting the what the pump would do. The
potential alternative interpretations of this were not fully through through.
Best, Susan Burger
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