Anyone got the guts to try....

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....this ?????

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ROFL!!! I'll add it to my Christmas list shall I???

Good God!

Guaranteed to make you feel even sexier than you normally would during the first few months post-partum.

lol! I can't imagine anyone wanting to use something that looks like that!! it reminds me of the milking machines they use on cows!! lol

That HAS to be a joke!

Look, believe me, I have a sense of humour, and the pic does look funny - her using the phone and reading 'n all.....but I have just been speaking to a mother of very, very prem twins in SCBU who has two other toddlers at home. She is 'double pumping' and wanted to know how to do it longer-term as the SCBU want their gear back. I have recommended something like this to her, and I think it will really help her.

So, imagining who could use it is not that hard!

I do agree it looks a bit bizaar, though

Hate to admit this, but I didn't think this looked odd at all. I used the Medela Pump-n-style while I was at work for many months, and I imagine I looked just like this when I was expressing. It is an odd process really, I know, but very practical for those of us who want to continue to breasfeed and go back to work.

REminds me dreadfully of me with my Medela too, omigod.

I would have used it when I was pumping for no1. I never seemed to have enough hands for the job (or was it too many boobs?)

I mean, had I known about it then.

its clearly very useful, as it has freed up both her hands to do the extensive blow-drying and makeup application that she is modelling so beautifully in the photograph!

pph! What an attractive contaption, must get one.

Looks brilliant to me - might even persuade me to do some expressing again if I should have another child. Freeing up the hands to turn book/magazine pages/interact with toddler etc. is a great idea.

Can I say I brought this idea to mumsnet first
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bugger off, Mears, and get back to that assignment And aren't you the one who was able to manually express?? I thought that was you, but maybe not.

Can I just say that as I sat there this morning with pump to one breast and breast shield to the other I was even MORE attractive.

Why doesn't she have breast milk splashed all over her????????

Omigod! I really hated expressing, had to do it without thinking about it IKWIM, but felt like a cow. I know it's a good thing, but....

Yes tinyfeet - that WAS me

By the way, just about to do that assignment

ok, so bugger off then - I've wanted to say that to you since you told me about the manual expressing.

That looks really useful, would let you double pump AND type on Mumsnet at the same time!! Then when you've spent an hour chatting, you can still say you've spent the time really productively!!

Imagine the reaction of your postie though, if you answered the door like that!

To Mears and others

Can I just say that I used this "contraption" and found it to be a godsend when having to express 3 hourly for my prem baby last October. I am also a breast pump agent for Ameda Egnell via the NCT and both organisations have just adopted this bra as the most useful breastfeeding/expressing product to come out for years. I also now supply these bras to women in the North West who are both successfully breastfeeding and expressing and despite the appearance of them (actually they do come in a varity of styles!) absolutely everyone who has bought one has found them useful, practical, comfy and in almost all cases, milk production has been further stimulated. If that is not a recommendation I don;t know what is!
Cheers! Mine's a pint (of EBM!)

Dh used to milk cows in his younger years, so I wasn't too impressed when he offered to milk me! All these nightmares of b/f are coming back!