Breast pumps

Fact: The breast pump, a device to extract milk from a woman’s breasts, used when a woman is for some reason unable to breastfeed her baby, was first patented in 1854. A mechanical breast pump was invented in 1922. Breast pumps were used in hospitals, by mothers of preemies or women who for some reason could not breastfeed normally. Breast pumps became commercially available for non-hospital use in 1991, when Medela introduced an electric vacuum-operated breast pump. This was a revolution for working mothers, allowing them to continue feeding their children breast milk even after they had returned to work.

Quote: "My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard."  -- David Allen


And a site: World Health Organization on breastfeeding