Tommee tippee manual Breastpump

[MrsGiraffe12]

Is this any good? They have them for £10 in a shop local to me, and I happen to have £10 voucher for said shop. I'm still pg but intent to exclusively breastfeed but may need a pump when I go back to work when baby will be 7 months old. Thanks x

I have one and its great, easy to use I have quite large breasts and fits fine would def recommend x

Love mine. I'm Breast feeding but occasionally express if leaving newborn DD for more than a few hours. Well worth the tenner.

I have smaller breasts. I hated the pump. Got it a couple of years ago, it wouldn't seal to my skin at all, leaked milk down my front every time. The valve also seemed really fragile & tore after a few weeks. Hated it. Chucked it in the end & got an Avent. Loved that one.

Thanks! I'll see what ones they have in store :-)

Hated it. I have bigger boobs and found it didn't seal well at all. It took ages to get even a couple of ounces of milk and it was very uncomfortable. I didn't realise how ineffective it was until I bought an Avent one and filled a four ounce bottle in a fraction of the time it would take with the tommy tippee one.

I used one with DS1 as I had to express for the first 3 weeks (he was in Scbu and tube fed). I found it worked pretty well, but the main issue was it absolutely killed my hands having to express every 3 hours. I ended up with worse carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI (although I do have arthritis so that made things worse).

I invested in a medela electric pump which has been brilliant. I used it when I went back to work, and found it quicker and easier to express more milk than the manual at that stage - DS was 8mo and I found I was getting less milk of by then than in the early days.

I would say if you are only expressing for the odd bottle then the manual is fine, but for regular expressing I would get an electric, and medela are really good.

I have medium sized boobs and I couldn't get on with it at all.

If you are looking to use a pump on a regular basis at some point, I'd investigate an electric one. Possibly consider second hand if new is too expensive? It can all be sterilised.

Posted too soon there.
Maybe get the manual since it's only £10 and have a go with it before you go back to work and see how you get on, then you can make the decision to invest in an electric should you feel the need. I got mine in the sale for half regular price so well worth shopping around.