hi all,

2009/10/8 Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Friends:
> There are many different reasons for this choice. Some are:
>
> 1) I have to go back to my job in 6 weeks, so might as well start doing what
> I will be doing.
> 2) They started me pumping in the hospital because my baby wouldn't latch on
> so pumping must be more reliable.
> 3) I am not comfortable with the idea of a baby sucking on me (for whatever
> reason, conscious or unconscious).
> 4) I was given 2 pumps at my baby shower; every list I see in American Baby
> and all those other magazines tells me I need a pump to breastfeed.
> 5) It is easier for me to keep my life the way it was before I had the baby
> if I pump and someone else feeds my baby.
> 6) My baby was in NICU and I got a routine going.
> 7) Breastfeeding always hurt and pumping doesn't.
> 8) I like seeing what I make and knowing how much my baby gets.
> 9) My family doesn't like me breastfeeding. Everyone wants to feed the baby.
> This way she gets my milk and my family is happy.
> 10) Breastfeeding is so complicated and pumping is easier.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> My suspicion is that mothers and babies are so disconnected from each other
> afrter most hospital  births (I feel sick every time I write that because
> what a terrible thing it is if the mother doesn't go home from the hospital
> loving, or at least intensely curious about, her new baby) that pumping
> carries through  with the notion that the mother can do some good things for
> her baby without being too involved.

i guess most of the points you made i've come across in one or the
other variation, but i miss one,
"they bottle-fed my kid in hospital and left us sitting with a severe
nipple confusion but i want to feed my baby on breast-milk so i fight
my way through pumping even if it's the most complicated and
unconfortable thing i ever had to do", and i'm not quite sure about

> 5) It is easier for me to keep my life the way it was before I had the baby
> if I pump and someone else feeds my baby.

because AFAIK serious pumping takes a lot of time and commitment and
with that attitude it'll be formula right away.

nina
(who would not be be lactating anymore if she had to pump - and has
the greatest respect for all the working moms, the preemies moms and
all the other women who pump to give their kids what they deserve,
although i wish every mother would have the opportunity to feed her
baby at her breast)
-- 
Because the Medieval Church, with the support of kings, princes and
secular authorities, controlled medical education and practice, the
Inquisition constitutes, among other things, an early instance of the
"professional" repudiating the skills and interfering with the rights
of the "nonprofessional" to minister to the poor. -Thomas Szasz, The
Manufacture of Madness-

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