The baby is usually more effective at removing milk from the breast than a pump, and far more effective at triggering milk supply than a pump, so while it can be done, it is usually difficult. Aside from the labor involved with making bottles, washing pump parts, etc.

Just do nothing. She is feeding her baby. Would you leave the room if she was giving the baby a bottle?

Grocery store boxes often have bugs in them, or bug eggs at least. Do not use them. Especially if you are the type of person who then stores the boxes in the basement, etc.

Twin size aerobed. That was my guest accommodation if someone insisted on staying with me in my NYC apartment. It was $30 and lasted a good 8 years or so.

I think this is a horrible idea for women's health overall. I get it that hormonal BCP is very effective and gives women control, but I think that screening for STI's and the cervical cell changes that result from HPV are so important and if the only way to get a woman in the stirrups for such testing is to make it…

I wish I had a thousand dollars for the time a hairdresser harassed me about nursing my son. I would take $150 for the numerous dirty looks I got over my "nursing career," but getting an earful from the woman cutting my 3 year old's hair at the Hair Cuttery really irked me. Glad her cosmetology education taught her…

Anecdotal evidence can be dangerous- these numbers have been researched. The fact that your co-worker already went through a round of IVF (and therefore had been on ovary stimulating hormones) probably contributed to the fact that she did get pregnant "naturally."