Pumps

[frakyouveryverymuch]

I have an Avent manual which I can use to get about 2oz from one breast (although it takes forever) and I think I must be assembling it wrong because milk isn't going through the white valve to the bottle. But anyway it's clearly an impractical solution if I'm going back to work when DS is 5 months and I want to keep him on BM. So which electric pump would you recommend? Double seems sensible as it cuts the time spent expressing.

I've looked at the Medela Pump in Style, the Medela Freestyle, the Avent Isis IQ Duo and the Ameda Lactaline.

The Avent, whilst expensive, would be good as it fits the bottles we have however it looks incredibly complicated.

The Ameda is cheap - is that a compromise on quality?

People seem to rave about the Medela pumps. Is there any partiuclarly reason for that?

I have the ameda lacteline (on advice from several friends) and cannot fault it. It's simple to use and I can get so much more out much more quickly than with my tommee tippee electrical I was using before. I bought it for £50 on ebay and having it now, I would happily pay full price for one.

You need to make sure you have put the valve bit (the one with the star/flower thing on, if they are still the same as my 6yr old Avent one) in the right way up, which is not the way you would necessarily put it in spontaneously. And make sure it is in properly and doing its job: its that bit that creates a vacuum and gets the suction going.

Congratulations, btw!!!

it's that bit, not its...