>In an ideal world, women do not need pumps but...in that same world, women
>tandem nurse and nurse each other's babies and do not wear bras that bind
them
>and keep them from leaking.

Hmmmm . . . . my comments were about women in 'traditional breastfeeding
cultures' -- not ideal worlds.  And most of them don't tandem nurse
(because their babies are spaced fairly far apart due to lactational
amenorrhea and post-partum sex taboos, and because they usually wean when
they get pregnant again) and they don't nurse each other's babies on a
regular basis, and they don't usually wear bras, but they do often massage
and block one side after a let-down so there isn't milk dripping out
everywhere.

I don't know why some women "overproduce" but true overproduction must be
extremely rare.


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