The Power of Pumping
Whether they had considered breastfeeding before their baby’s birth or not, moms of patients in the Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia relate why they made the decision to pump milk for their medically fragile children.
"Pumping – expressing milk for the baby – is the one thing that the mom has control over,” says Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, nurse researcher and director of the Lactation Program at CHOP. “Each day that you pump, you are making a new daily dose of vaccine for your baby. That’s powerful.”
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