Electric Breast pumps

fesdufun

I used an Avent handpump and an Ameda Lactaline double electric pump. I just did a search on Ebay and they seem to be selling for around £40-£50 (about £80) brand new. Much less than the Avent one. I know Avent are a good make but they seem to be much more expensive than other brands.

It may be worth trying a cheaper one first, you can always sell in again on Ebay if you don't get on with it.

I introduced a bottle at about 4 weeks and would recommend that you introduce it shortly if you want to use both breast and bottle. If you leave it too long then some babies are relucant to use a bottle - and who can blame them. It helps if someone else gives the baby the bottle for first few times as they can smell the breast milk from mummy and may refuse the bottle.

I used to breast feed throughout the day and express just before I went to bed. My OH then used to feed our son at about 11.00 pm. This allowed me to get a bit more sleep and made sure our son had a bottle each day. We followed this with both our boys and neither had a problem swapping from bottle to breast.

My friend's daughter was having a bottle but she thought she wouldn't bother whilst on a week's holiday when she was 3 months old. When she tried to reintroduce the bottle she wasn't having any of it. So I would advise you to use a bottle regularly i.e. once a day if you don't want this to happen.

At the end of the day you will do what is right for you and your family. Good luck.

Karnam

!!!!!! mine hasnt had a bottle since saturday!!

she was on mixed feeding, maybe a bottle every few days of formula for the first week or so. i gradually got used to bf and stopped giving her formula. after a week of pure breast milk, i had to give her some formula as we were out but she totally refused it cause it was formula. she happily takes a bottle of breast milk when given to her by her dad. however she hasnt had a bottle of breast milk in about a week and im hoping she wont refuse it, like she did with bottled formula!! i better express and give her a bottle soon!

i also need help but will post in another thread.

Karnam

Ok so I need help from Parenting club members!!

I wanna buy the Avent Uno Electric pump from boots.com. Not cheap but hey it's an investment! It costs 85pounds.

So I have a code here from the Boots Baby and You magazine. In case anyone wants to use it, it's spend 75pounds or more in the baby department of boots.com and get 1000 points. The code is BAYB47, expires 28th Febuary 2006, open to all as it's from a public magazine.

I know that I can only put one code into boots.com. I wanna use this code to get an extra 1000 points.

HOWEVER, and this is where it gets a little complex, I also know as a Parenting CLub member I get 1500 points for spending over 75pounds on baby things. I never recieved a voucher for this, so I assume its automatic when I spend money. ie if I went into a Boots store and spent 75pounds, my reciept would automatically show an extra 1500 points.

So does this mean if i went to the boots.com checkout, input the code from the magazine I would get 1000 points from the code and an extra 1500points from my parenting club membership? Any help from parenting club members would be brilliant! Have any parenting club members bought things with a voucher online and then also gotten the extra parenting club points?

If this works, with triple points week should mean I get 3520 points on a 85pound spend. :j

fhaye

This has been an old thread but come across to it. I would like to share my experience on a hands free breast pump. I've been a single mom can't afford to get a nanny and working as well. I've been dedicated on taking good care of my daughter but I can't do it alone. I've been trying to do multi-tasking at home and at office but gives me stress. I've learn about electric breast pump and search for what it could do to me and a product of SimpleWishes has convince me to get one.

The fit, comfort, and the feeling are perfect. It's been about 6 months from now SimpleWishes is my companion on taking good care of my daughter. Hope this might help some moms out there that needed to know more about electric pumping bra there are video clips and articles that you can read and see regarding their product. I absolutely recommend it to you and you'll love it too: simplewishes.com/product/hands-free-pumping-bra.html

PurpleJay

Karnam wrote: »

ps does anyone find they leak from one breast when having an electric pump on the other one? how do you get around this - just hold a bottle under the other one?

I used to leak from one side when feeding my son on the other until he was about 5 months old and then it stopped. I didn't need breast pads anymore once he started on solids at 6 months either. You can get nipple shields to catch the milk on the other side. I didn't express much until I went back to work at 11 months so don't remember leaking when expressing.

I got a Medela one off ebay too and it was great as it used to take me a long time to express and this saved me doing it manually. If you want to try a more expensive pump, some branches of NCT hire them out.

PoshMums

Karnam wrote: »

So my baby is just over 3 weeks old and for the past 2 1/2 weeks I have been expressing both by hand and by manual breast pump (the avent isis one)

I'm quite good at this and can easily get around 100- 150 mls depending on what time/how soon after a feed etc etc. I've found that I can hand express easily on the right one and pump easily on the left one.

Out of curiosity i wanna try an electric breast pump. for 250pounds i dont think its reasonable to buy an electric breast pump since most of the time my baby goes straight onto the breast, ie milk via nipple. however my curiousity is intense and id like to hire/try one out. i'm going to the baby clinic tomorrow to ask my HV about hiring a pump, but i was curious to know...

- how much is reasonable to hire a breast pump? can you hire these cheaply even if you don't have a medical reason for using one ie. baby is SCBU but are just curious
- how does this feel comapred to normal breast pumps? do you feel like a cow all hooked up to a machine pumping?
- what make is quite good?

Hi there! I just wanted to say you definitely wouldn't feel like a 'cow' - tee hee! If you are able to express okay using a simple manual breast pump, being able to use a hospital grade 'twin' or double breast pump in the privacy of your own home simply gives you the very best tool kit possible to enable you to express your milk quickly and without drama. By the way, it is possible to hire for a two week period initially so you can test and see how you get on but once you try the best...:)