Getting hardly any milk when pumping.

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DS is 6 weeks old and ebf. I want to express occasionally so that DH can feed him and so I can be away for a few hours at times.
I have a Mam manual pump and have tried using it after a feed but only get about 5 ml after 20 min or so. Is it worth me buying a different pump to try or are they all about the same? Or should I not be pumping after a feed? I'm worried that if I do it at another time then there won't be enough for his next feed.

Pump prob broken or in need of new valve. Call the Mam helpline.

I found the best way to get milk was to add a session at a time baby didn't usually feed. For me that was 9ish, after dinner, watching TV. Soon my body got used to producing milk for this 'extra feed'. It sounds reasonable that you'd struggle to get much right after baby has fed. Or at least if you choose to pump at this time it'll take your body a few sessions to get used to the extra 'demand'

I have a manual pump as my electric one broke last weekend. It works just as well as my electric one. I never pump after a feed, I usually wait an hour and then pump and usually produce a few ounces. I onky do this a couple of times a day, usually once first thing in the morning and once late afternoon, I find that if the pump funnel is warm on the breast that helps too.

I found visualising the baby feeding helped my let-down reflex kick in.
Or, harvesting the milk from one boob while she fed from the other - if it was the morning feed it used to pour out once it got going.

I had an electric pump when DS2 was I in hospital and actually found a manual one best - mostly because you can slow the rate of pumping down if it starts flowing more freely.

I struggled for ages to pump then one day realised I really needed to think about my baby and feeding him - it then worked so much better!

Agreed also you can take from other breast whilst feeding from one.