Greetings BellaOnline Breastfeeding Readers,

I want to apologize these last several weeks for being inconsistent with my writing and non-existent with my newsletters on the Breastfeeding website. The fall is hectic time for my family and as a writer and a mother I am still learning to balance how to fit it all in (and suspect I always will be).

But I so appreciate the questions and supportive messages I have received from readers these past years since I began writing this site and on this Thanksgiving weekend want to tell you how grateful I am to all of you and your wonderful nurslings for giving me this outlet to be of service.

I am going to send out an additional newsletter with links to the articles I have added to the site since the last newsletter (or come to the site and see yourself!) and I promise to do better with writing and communicating more consistently as we are meant to do here at BellaOnline.

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For this week, here's the first in a series of articles on pumping and breast pumps from the Breastfeeding site at BellaOnline.com.

Breastfeeding Essentials – Breast Pumps
Breast pumps are commonly sold as a "breastfeeding essential." In truth, they are truly an essential for some breastfeeding mothers, but not for all. Explore the reasons to use a breast pump.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art69651.asp

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Warmly,

Nicki Heskin, CLEC
Breastfeeding Editor
http://Breastfeeding.bellaonline.com

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