If the milk bottles are ever over flowed or if mom sits the bottles down with the tubing's attached, the medela bottles with tubing are very unstable unless they are set in the yellow bottle holders, then the bottles tip over and milk goes up the tube..... who knows how long yeast or bacteria's can live on the motor? Cindy ~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~** Cindy Curtis, RN, IBCLC mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.breastfeedingonline.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > > You can't clean the motor of the pump... that is the problem. > But how do you figure the motor comes in Any contact with the milk? And how > long can germs exist on a motor?? > Thanks, Pat in SNJ > > *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html