On 07/09/2005, at 15:57, Rachel Myr wrote:

> It seems to me that where sanitation is a challenge, like where  
> there is
> little personal space for washing up or washing and sterilizing  
> bottles,
> then pumps are just one more item that would need adequate cleaning  
> in order
> to be safe.  To me, talking about sending pumps just clouds the issue.
[snip]
> If a woman does not have enough privacy to feel comfortable  
> breastfeeding,
> where is she going to find the privacy to pump, even if she had  
> access to
> adequate facilities to clean her pump?

I can see a (statistically small) role for them in clean refugee  
shelters for women exclusively pumping who have lost their pumps in  
the emergency, and for those who need to send milk (and have access  
to refrigeration/freezing) to their hospitalised preemies or sick  
babies, or for those who are separated from their babies and don't  
know where they are, and want to maintain supply (ideally, they'd be  
wet-nursing another baby!). Your response seems to contain an  
underlying assumption that the only reason a refugee would be pumping  
is because of psychological discomfort with breastfeeding in a shelter.

Lara

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