When I had my first baby, I was a member of the choir. The music
minister's wife and I were due a week apart, and I had Chris before she
had Adam. I returned to choir as soon as possible, and began pumping milk
early every Sunday morning in order to leave him in the nursery; this was
standard procedure, right? Everyone else left their babies with bottles,
and I didn't question this routine. Until I watched Karen, the wife of
the music pastor and a fellow choir member, quietly sneak out after we
had sung one Sunday (she waited until sermon time, when people were
getting settled). The next week I followed her, and discovered that she
had left to breastfeed and take care of her baby. She would take him into
the narthex and listen to the sermon from there, walking him and watching
through the glass. Needless to say, I adopted her method quite fast and
dropped the pumping and bottles stuff. It just had never occurred to me
that I could cut out like that, and that it could be okay, but when I saw
the music minister's own wife do it....... well, that's all I needed!

-Lisa

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Lisa Marasco, BA, LLLL, IBCLC
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