advice

[flowerpower10]

Electric breast pumps worth the investment ?

How do they feel to use?

Which one do you use?

Any advice welcome

[HairyBoob]

Medela Swing. Amazing. Easy to use and clean. Extremely effective. Definitely worth the investment.

[winchester1]

I'd wait and see if you need it. Do you like breast feeding, can you hand express and see if the baby takes a bottle, do you have any time to express, do you want to leave the baby etc etc.
I brought one and never used it as baby was kept in nicu for jaundice so I used their neonatal pump and nothing really came out after a week of pumping. Biggest waste of money for me personally.

[shellycooper]

I also recommend the medela swing- have used it most days since DD was 6 weeks- really efficient, not very noisy and really easy to use- would definitely say it was worth the money.

[HeffalumpHistory]

Also recommend Medela Swing.
I really struggled expressing although was feeding OK by myself. This was the only one I could get a decent amount using (& didn't take hours)

[Dixiechick17]

I had the medela mini electic pump and it was great. You can always hire one initially for a month and then decide if you want to buy.

[Junosmum]

I have an ardo calypso. It's fantastic. I've been told it's quieter than the medela swing.

I didn't buy it - I'm a milk donor so it was provided for me by the hospital, it's hospital grade and a closed system, unlike the medela swing.

[AugustinaDuBois]

I hired the medela symphony (hospital grade) because I got to a point where I was exclusively expressing and this was the one I found worked best (and fastest)

[familysizepack]

I only bought one because I knew I'd be expressing at work for several months because DH is a SAHD for us. I think I'd have stuck with a manual for only occasional expressing.

I've also used the Medela Swing, it's fine and is still going well (touch wood!) on baby 3.

Expressing is such a faff I'd avoid where possible