Category Archives: Breastfeeding and Pumping

More on Jill Lepore’s Pumping Article

Hurrah to Christen Clifford for her Huffington Post piece on Jill Lepore’s pumping article in The New Yorker.   With a few weeks distance on the article, I’ve been thinking that Lepore’s insinuation that pumping deprives babies of the real … Continue reading

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Jill Lepore on Breastpumps in The New Yorker

Thank you, Kate Harding , for your response in Salon to Jill Lepore’s January 12th New Yorker article about breastfeeding and pumping.  As someone who breastfed for 17 months and pumped for nearly a year after going back to work, I too … Continue reading

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Nursing and Working and Pumping

One of the most stressful things about going back to work after three months was breast-feeding. I wanted to continue to nurse, but pumping seemed impossible. Ultimately though, nursing was one of the most satisfying things I did in those … Continue reading

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