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As a tip from someone with a baby in daycare who has been pumping for a while - waiting between pumpings too often will decrease your milk production in the long run.
Teaching Tuesday: A Day in the life, Part 2 ScienceWoman 2007
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I do not yet hear one jot the better for all my bathings and pumpings, though I have been here already full half my time; I consequently go very little into company, being very little fit for any.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Three to five rounds of ten to eighteen pumpings are sufficient.
The Sivananda Companion To Meditation THE SIVANANDA YOGA VEDANTA CENTER 2003
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Since Persian wheels are operated intermittently (usually four hours each in the morning and evening) the wells are allowed to recharge in between pumpings.
Chapter 6 1984
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The organ of whose lagging, sick pumpings Antony Dart had scarcely been aware for months gave a sudden leap in his breast.
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A little later he was able to leave off the first-aid arm-pumpings and chest-pressings; to straighten the limp and sprawling limbs, and to dive into the cuddy cabin, under Margery's directions, for blankets and rugs.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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The organ of whose lagging, sick pumpings Antony Dart had scarcely been aware for months gave a sudden leap in his breast.
The Dawn of a To-morrow Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Judge Rutherford seized his hand and shook it with affectionately ardent pumpings.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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But they are, exclusively (with the exception of the allegory of the vine and oak), wild vines, and not pumpings up of my own fancy.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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But they are, exclusively (with the exception of the allegory of the vine and oak), wild vines, and not pumpings up of my own fancy.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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