Lactation Consultant Kathleen Gale RN, IBCLC of Chicago, IL 60630 -- The Baby Cafe

Breastfeeding Tidbits!
Keep your eye out for various "Tidbits" about breastfeeding. Today, I'd like to tell you one about cleaning breast pumps.

• Do you know that you should never, never wash your breast pump tubing?
• If you notice condensation in the tubing after pumping, leave the pump running for a while after disconnecting the bottles--this will dry it out.

The reason you don't need to wash the tubing, is that the tubing has nothing but air going through it.  The expressed breast milk never touches the tubing.  If you wash the tubing, chances are that it will get moldy.  If that is the case, you must get some replacement tubing.