My lovely lady pumps
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:36.0 | I'm Sarah Cliff, filling in for Sean Rommis-Furham, and I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. |
| 0:45.2 | I had a baby 10 months ago, and that means I have spent a lot of time with this machine, a rest pump. |
| 0:53.2 | And I am not the only one. As of 2016, according to the CDC, a little more than 80% of mothers |
| 1:02.1 | start breastfeeding at birth, and around half of babies are still breastfeeding when they're |
| 1:07.1 | six months old. Vox reporter Anna North is a new mom too. We are both part of that 80%. |
| 1:13.5 | We both had a lot of really good reasons to breastfeed. The milk was good for our kids, |
| 1:18.2 | and it is free, unlike formula. And besides, the experience of snuggling a baby while you nurse |
| 1:24.4 | is just unbeatable. Except both Anna and I had to go back to work. |
| 1:32.2 | And that meant every few hours we would stop whatever we were doing and pump, so our babies would |
| 1:37.6 | have a steady supply of breast milk. I can tell you that hooking yourself up to a breast pump is a |
| 1:44.6 | lot less pleasant than snuggling a nursing baby. Still, Anna and I were lucky. We had three |
| 1:50.8 | months of paid leave, and in the United States, that is not guaranteed. But some big name politicians |
| 1:56.4 | are now talking about changing that. One of the things I hear time and again is how difficult it |
| 2:01.9 | is economically to make ends meet, particularly when the child comes home from the hospital. |
| 2:07.7 | When mom or dad has to leave work, often an unpaid leave, and be able to provide for that little |
| 2:14.0 | child. We are the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't guarantee some form of paid |
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