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What I want to know is, if she knew she was going on a long flight, why couldn't she have pumped before she left?
Yeah, well, perhaps you should read about breast feeding and pumping before making uninformed assumptions. Women pump more frequently than that, just like babies eat more frequently than that.
What I want to know is, if she knew she was going on a long flight, why couldn't she have pumped before she left?
Assuming you genuinely don't know much about physiology of breastfeeding, if she is actively breastfeeding on a regular basis, she needs to pump or feed at least once or twice over the course of a nine hour flight.
She was traveling with the child. What 4 month old baby can't pump breast milk right there by himself? Mom needs to pump it, put it into a bottle for the baby?
There is privacy in the bathrooms.
The whole story is wonky. I'm disinclined to believe her version of the story.
She was traveling with the child. What 4 month old baby can't pump breast milk right there by himself? Mom needs to pump it, put it into a bottle for the baby?
There is privacy in the bathrooms.
The whole story is wonky. I'm disinclined to believe her version of the story.
She said the outlets in the bathroom didn't work. And yes, sometimes breastfeeding mothers do need to pump into a bottle for baby to eat, not every baby does a good job with nursing. I don't know that this was the scenario here, but it's not all that uncommon.
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She was traveling with the child. What 4 month old baby can't pump breast milk right there by himself? Mom needs to pump it, put it into a bottle for the baby?
There is privacy in the bathrooms.
The whole story is wonky. I'm disinclined to believe her version of the story.
To be fair, she said the electric plug in the bathroom didn't work with her pump.
But I share your curiosity about why she needed a breast pump with the baby right there.
So, yeah, as a guy this is definitely where women's thoughts are needed.
Why was she pumping when she had the 4 month old with her? Just trying to get additional milk? I know my wife would pump to build up reserves for when our kids started daycare, but she didn't feel the urgency to do it on a flight. But then again if the kid is fussy and/or she doesn't feel comfortable feeding in public that woman could be in real pain without getting the breast milk out for that long.
IMO it's one of those, ya kinda need more information articles,but I'd tend to side with her here, and this is speaking as a man.
Since people missed my answer the first time, some babies are very bad at breastfeeding and need expressed breast milk (EBM) instead. I had one of those, and he would literally be dead if he had needed to survive solely on the food he got via nursing. He was severely underweight as it was, and I had to supplement with EBM and formula.
I have no idea if that's the situation here, but it's not that unusual. Despite what some people assume, a lot of the time, breastfeeding doesn't always come naturally or easily for the baby, the mother or sometimes both.
Assuming you genuinely don't know much about physiology of breastfeeding, if she is actively breastfeeding on a regular basis, she needs to pump or feed at least once or twice over the course of a nine hour flight.
Couldn't she have just pumped enough to fill up a bunch of bottles to take with her before she left?
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