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Annoying Comment: 'So Easy for You.'

When I delivered each of my children by 'natural' birth, I often got the comment that I was "lucky" that labor was so "easy." Ha! I was determined to go without medication, and although I was indeed lucky that the births were relatively uncomplicated, I wouldn't call them easy. Then, as I continued nursing each of my children past when my fellow working mother friends were able to, I got the same comment - "you're lucky it's so easy for you". As most of you know, there's nothing easy about nursing and pumping for months on end, mush less...

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Should I Replace Parts on My Medela Pump?

I LOVE my Medela Pump which I purchased before having my son in 2008. I used it for a year while breastfeeding him and now I'm 28 weeks pregnant with my second child. I plan to breastfeed him too, but was wondering if I would need to replace any parts of my Medela pump? I haven't used it in a couple years and it still looks great, but I have no idea if it still has the suction power I'll need or if the plastic parts need to be replaced. Obviously I can't test out the suction power since I'm not a cow yet, but wasn't sure if there was a...

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