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If a Military Mom Can Ship Breast Milk Home From Afghanistan, You Can Pump Too

Robyn Roche-Paull is a serious badass. That doesn’t sound like something you say about a lactation consultant, those gentle creatures encouraging calm and kvelling about endorphins, but Roche-Paull isn’t your average LC. She’s a veteran of the U.S. Navy — where she was an aircraft mechanic — and breastfed her son while on active duty.

She’s also the author of Breastfeeding in Combat Boots, a book intended for military moms who want information and support for their own breastfeeding efforts. If her tips help moms figure out how to breastfeed in combat zones and on military planes (like the mom to the left), surely they can be of use to any working mom.

 

Read rest of this great article-The Stir

 


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