Just to explain, I agree, that there are lots of truly disgusting business
practices perpetrated by Medela and others. If I were ignorant, just reading
this list would tell me.
   What bothered me about the discussion, that at some point it became very
disapproving about mothers who pump, but do not breastfeed. Often we do not
now why. Even if they tell us a lot of time they are not telling the truth.
Not because they are lying on purpose, but because they will not admit it to
themselves. I would not live a tiny premature baby home with any care giver
and go to work. but I am not the one making this choice. trying top  That is
all.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:13 AM, heather <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Hello, I spoke to my best friend a few days ago . The conversation added
>> to
>> the discussion on this list still bothers me. she had a baby girl 5 weeks
>> ago. This is a baby number 4. The baby was born pre-term. The lungs did
>> not
>> function properly and had to be inflated. Then she was on ventilator, got
>> pneumonia, got a punctured lung.
>>
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Henya - that vignette is very moving. It sounds as if you posted  it to
> remind us that some mothers and babies desperately need effective ways of
> getting breastmilk other than directly from their mothers, and that the use
> of an efficient pump has a role -  especially in the iniquitous situation
> you describe whereby a tiny, sick, pre-term baby is denied appropriate
> hospital care because insurance won't pay and because there is no further
> maternity leave available to the mother (dear heavens above - what a
> system......politics is OT for Lactnet and rightly so, but no prizes for
> guessing what my views are on that one).
>
> No one is denying that mothers need efficient pumps - I don't think it is
> realistic for any mother to hand express round the clock for days and
> nights.
>
> But pump manufacturers should market their products ethically. Ethical
> marketing would not deny mothers access to pumps, for whatever reason -
> life-saving or not.  Ethical marketing has nothing to do with the reasons
> why a mother uses a pump.
>
> I hope your friend and her baby find life, and health, easier as time goes
> by.
>
> Heather Welford Neil
>
> NCT bfc, tutor, UK
>
>
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