I think you are spot on. The quickest way to undermine a new mom is to put
a pump on her room.  Unfortunately, many request them because it is
ingrained in the Bf culture.

Breastfeeding is not an intellectual pursuit.

On Friday, September 27, 2013, Wendy Blumfield wrote:

> Discussion on pumping always puts up my frustration levels because so many
> mothers are coming out of hospital believing that pumping will solve
> several issues. e.g. partner or other relative can give her milk in a
> bottle when she is tired; cure for painful or inverted nipples; baby takes
>  more quickly reducing times of feeding; she can see how much baby gets.
> Apart from the problem of baby getting used to bottles the mothers do not
> get told that it is the baby`s sucking that stimulates flow and supply and
> that if the infant gets most of the milk from pumping, of course the supply
> will drop.  So many of my home visits which I do within the first days at
> home are dealing with this issue.
> In my opinion, it`s not the problem of the worst or best pump because I
> find that opinions differ about all the manufacturers, positive and
> negative. The problem is the lack of stimulation because of the over-use of
> the pump and the under-use of the simplest mother-infant interaction.
> One cannot stop the pumping and bottles instantly because by that time the
> baby is far more enthusiastic about the easier sucking from the bottles.
>  So after working with the mother on positioning and latching,compression
> etc, I can only suggest that she starts every feed on the breast and only
> continues with the expressed milk when the baby gets frustrated and refuses
> to continue on the breast.  We then hope that within a few days, the
> breast-feeding gets more established and easier for the infant and the
> pumping can gradually be reduced.
> But that doesn`t happen in one day and after several days of phone calls I
> hope to hear the good news that the pump has been discarded until the
> mother goes back to work or needs to pump a supply if she needs to leave
> the baby for a few hours.
> And of course to advise the mother to pump immediately after a breast-feed
> while the hormones are still humming!
> But why oh why is the pump so widely used while the mothers are still in
> the hospital?  The mothers get so frustrated when they can only express a
> few drops with the pump and this reinforces the advice they are getting
> from their relatives, friends, neighbours and unfortunately sometimes the
> hospital staff:  "You see you don`t have enough milk".
> Meanwhile a happy new year and season`s greetings to all those who have
> been celebrating the New Year, Yom Kippur, Festival of Tabernacles and
> Ramadan.
>
> Wendy Blumfield
> NCT Trained Tutor Prenatal Teacher/Breastfeeding Counsellor
> Former President Israel Childbirth Education Centre
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