Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

pumps

English answer:

expresses breast milk

Added to glossary by S.J
Apr 20, 2021 04:56
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English term

pumps

Non-PRO English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters pumps
She has no contact with the baby and she pumps in her room.

The sentence is taken from "previously… in this series", so I don't have much context. Could it mean "Breastfeeding"?

Thanks in advance,

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expresses breast milk

pumps = uses a breast pump to express breast milk, to feed the baby which which she has no contact.

Expressing milk means squeezing milk out of your breast so you can store it and feed it to your baby later. You might want to express milk if: you have to be away from your baby, for example, because your baby is in special care or because you're going back to work. your breasts feel uncomfortably full (engorged).

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/breastfeeding-and-bottle-...
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