Comments on: Should a Nursing Mother Get Extra Time? http://www.chocolateandgarlic.com/2007/09/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/ The Sweet, The Savory Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:49:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: What I Saw at Costco this Evening : Chocolate & Garlic http://www.chocolateandgarlic.com/2007/09/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 What I Saw at Costco this Evening : Chocolate & Garlic Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:39:48 +0000 http://chocolateandgarlic.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/#comment-1529 [...] I never made it all the way to comfort with breastfeeding whenever and wherever I went.  Although I did breastfeed in public many times, I also spent a lot of time nursing in more private spots because it was [...] [...] I never made it all the way to comfort with breastfeeding whenever and wherever I went.  Although I did breastfeed in public many times, I also spent a lot of time nursing in more private spots because it was [...]

]]> By: AG http://www.chocolateandgarlic.com/2007/09/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 AG Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:27:07 +0000 http://chocolateandgarlic.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/#comment-1168 I worked 10 hour days while nursing my son and, try as hard as I did, I could only keep the supply up for a few months. He is now seven months and I hate giving him formula, but the breaks and lunches I received (I pumped about every four hours) were not often enough to express the milk that was needed and to keep up my supply. I was very confused because my son only fed about every four hours, but I found out later that babies are so much more effective at removing milk from the breast than a pump that it can sometimes take two to four sessions of pumping to produce the amount of milk a baby normally would in one session. Especially if the woman has a good supply, you can't expect a woman to go for nine hours without pumping milk without becoming incredibly painfully engorged and, on the flip side, if her supply is not that great she needs to pump more often to maintain it. It's also interesting to note that the only place in the U.S. that it's illegal to breastfeed is in a moving car, and even then it's only because the child must be in a car seat. On Federal property, such as capital buildings and in courthouses, you can't be arrested for indecent exposure while breastfeeding. I don't see how it's a just or legal ruling the judge made. I worked 10 hour days while nursing my son and, try as hard as I did, I could only keep the supply up for a few months. He is now seven months and I hate giving him formula, but the breaks and lunches I received (I pumped about every four hours) were not often enough to express the milk that was needed and to keep up my supply. I was very confused because my son only fed about every four hours, but I found out later that babies are so much more effective at removing milk from the breast than a pump that it can sometimes take two to four sessions of pumping to produce the amount of milk a baby normally would in one session. Especially if the woman has a good supply, you can’t expect a woman to go for nine hours without pumping milk without becoming incredibly painfully engorged and, on the flip side, if her supply is not that great she needs to pump more often to maintain it. It’s also interesting to note that the only place in the U.S. that it’s illegal to breastfeed is in a moving car, and even then it’s only because the child must be in a car seat. On Federal property, such as capital buildings and in courthouses, you can’t be arrested for indecent exposure while breastfeeding. I don’t see how it’s a just or legal ruling the judge made.

]]> By: Pmom http://www.chocolateandgarlic.com/2007/09/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Pmom Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:00:49 +0000 http://chocolateandgarlic.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/#comment-142 Readers: Note that "Gabe" didn't address a single point I made in my post. To me it looks as though this is someone who has simply typed "Sophie Currier" into a search engine and typed up anti-Sophie vitriol in every available forum. What would motivate someone to do that? I do consider other sides of this issue in my follow-up posts. It would be nice to have a dialogue rather than a shouting match. Readers: Note that “Gabe” didn’t address a single point I made in my post. To me it looks as though this is someone who has simply typed “Sophie Currier” into a search engine and typed up anti-Sophie vitriol in every available forum. What would motivate someone to do that?

I do consider other sides of this issue in my follow-up posts. It would be nice to have a dialogue rather than a shouting match.

]]> By: gabe http://www.chocolateandgarlic.com/2007/09/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-43 gabe Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:36:00 +0000 http://chocolateandgarlic.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/should-a-nursing-mother-get-extra-time-part-i/#comment-43 Shame on her for using the system in this way. Hundreds of nursing mothers takes exams every year. They manage to store milk ahead of time so they do not have to actually breast feed that day and then use break time if they need to express. She is a whiner beyond belief. I have breast feed 2 children through school, work, ballgames, trips etc. She is full of it. And it amazes me as the mother of an ADD child the accommodations she has received at school. Her disability is SO amazing and more difficult then anyone else's it astounds me! I hope MY child is accomodated when he heads to college in a year to the extant she has been.<br/><br/>She should be a lawyer not a doctor she is so good at using the system in way no one else has ever thought of. But wait, I married a lawyer and he is not a whiner so that is an insult to him. She has a good deal going and is going to milk it to the end so to speak. But shame shame shame. <br/><br/> And pity the company that hires her because how can she POSSIBLY do research or work if she cannot concentrate, cannot read, cannot organize, needs extra time, cannot remember things, has babies to breast feed etc. She has given out interviews everywhere about her ADHD and other disabilities and I don't know how she even gets through the day! Good luck with that. Shame on her for using the system in this way. Hundreds of nursing mothers takes exams every year. They manage to store milk ahead of time so they do not have to actually breast feed that day and then use break time if they need to express. She is a whiner beyond belief. I have breast feed 2 children through school, work, ballgames, trips etc. She is full of it. And it amazes me as the mother of an ADD child the accommodations she has received at school. Her disability is SO amazing and more difficult then anyone else’s it astounds me! I hope MY child is accomodated when he heads to college in a year to the extant she has been.

She should be a lawyer not a doctor she is so good at using the system in way no one else has ever thought of. But wait, I married a lawyer and he is not a whiner so that is an insult to him. She has a good deal going and is going to milk it to the end so to speak. But shame shame shame.

And pity the company that hires her because how can she POSSIBLY do research or work if she cannot concentrate, cannot read, cannot organize, needs extra time, cannot remember things, has babies to breast feed etc. She has given out interviews everywhere about her ADHD and other disabilities and I don’t know how she even gets through the day! Good luck with that.

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