Breast feeding and breast pads

Dormouse

I leaked like a tap with both my babies. Tried the cheap pads - useless; washable (Avent?) - no good either, so I stuck to Tommee Tippee and Lansinoh ones as I found them the best (not the cheapest but there are promotions sometimes, so I always stocked up )

starbump

I recommend the Lansinoh disposable breast pads - super thin and discrete and absorb tons of milk. If you leak a lot, I think disposables will be better - surely the washable pads will not have a plastic/leak-proof backing and will not stay in place as easily (no adhesive patch)?

maryjane01

I had excessive milk supply, I used avent and boots brand reusables and both were terrible they are ok for very light leakage. Reusables boots brand and mothercare were both rubbish, tommee tippee were slightly better, the best were definitely Johnson and Johnson. I also found lily padz useless, maybe they are ok for light leakage, I could see the milk build up behind the silicone before it flooded out in a big gush. And people say breast feeding is free!

svmitche

I used the Tommee Tippee for the first couple of weeks, then washable Boots own brand, then nothing after about 3 months or so. Those were good, but did use Asda own brand and they were rubbish!

pigpen

I used boots or tesco ones.. in the beginning I used a washable pad with a disposable one on the outside to catch seepage and protect my clothes. Fortunately most of my clothes are black so I had few noticable marks.

Oddly the more children you breastfeed and the longer you feed them the less likely you are to leak so profusely with the next one.. by the time I got to number 8 my boobs knew what they were doing and that they were supplying a baby human not an elephant!

Breast shells hold very very little so I'd have a jug under the non-feeding boob.. regularly got 6-8oz just from there without having to express.. came in very handing for weaning purposes!

Dormouse

pigpen wrote: »

by the time I got to number 8

Sorry... number what? :eek::D I thought I had read that wrong! :rotfl:Total respect for making 8 babies, and even more respect for breastfeeding them all! :T:T:T

got-it-spend-it

Tommy Tippee ones are half price in Tesco at the moment :money:

onlyroz

Breast shells are useful when you're feeding - put a shell on the one not in use and as long as it's sterile you can keep any milk that you collect.

As for pads, my mum made me some out of old towels, whizzed into small squares using her overlocker. I found that one of those, with a disposable pad next to the nipple (to stop the towel fibres embedding itself into my poor bleeding boobs) did the trick - with a double pad at night.

Yama_2

Don't the Avent breastshells have vents at the top for airflow? I was caught out on a few occassions where I had bent over and the milk poured out of the top.

I found Boots own brand too scratchy. Tesco were OK. Switched to Avent washables in the end as I felt bad for the environment after going through so many disposables, and they were fine. Much softer, although the fibers did tend to catch on cracked nipples (ouch!)

Tia_Maria06

I am gonna sound quite vile now, but I was the same, milk squirting all the time, I got some white sports socks and folded them up and tucked them in, washed ok and soaked up loads... sorry if this has made you feel queasy!!! lol