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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More women should be warned that for SOME women, there IS a difference between your ability to make and let down milk for a baby and your ability to PUMP milk.

I couldn't pump milk to save my life, but had no supply problems when actually feeding a baby. I wasn't working, so I didn't have to pump and had very fat EBF Infants.

[b]But the second I tried to pump, To build a back up supply, I dried up like a raisin. It was totally psychological.[/b] [/quote]

NP - why is your conclusion that it’s psychological?  The physical experience of breastfeeding is very different than that of pumping.  Those changes can absolutely increase milk supply.  That doesn’t mean the reasons aren’t real, which is what you seem to be implying.

I’m one of those women who, when she returned to work, couldn’t pump enough to keep up with her infant’s needs.  Oh well.  Ideally, our country would be humane and offer, I don’t know, six months of paid maternity leave to every mother to use as she sees fit.  I would have happily EBF for those six months and then weaned.  Pumping is evil.[/quote]

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