What a racket....

In my next life, I'm going into the breast pump business. It only recently occurred to me what a great deal they have. Create a "single-user product" and make the product un-returnable once opened. There's no way to legitimately try it out in advance - you can't try someone else's pump, as that presents (according to the company) a health risk to your kid and the kid of whoever you borrowed the pump from, and you can't buy it and return it if you don't like it. Nice racket!

I've been using a borrowed Medela Pump-in-Style for a while now, and liked it fine, but started having issues double-pumping - the milk backed up into the tubing whenever I tried it. So I bought a new one. The Pump-in-Style has a new design, and I don't think it works as well - it took me nearly an hour to get it to work at all, due to the new removable faceplate on the pump part which won't create suction if it's not pushed in really, really hard (and it doesn't arrive that way). Now, I'm discovering that even with double pumping, I'm pumping less than I did when I used a single pump and alternated sides during a pumping session. So I now have a brand new pump that works worse than the old, borrowed, not-quite-working-perfectly pump. Sigh.

That's all - a little pump-vent. I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately - I have been back at work for two weeks now and hope to jumpstart this group into blogging again!