Anyone use manual breastpump for first baby and then electric for the second?

[beatie]

I am thinking of buying an electric breastpump for when I have my second baby.

The manual pump worked pretty well for me but it wasn't ideal and at times was time consuming.

Did anyone use a manual pump and then have a better experience with an electric pump?

Try using one in hospital first to see how you get on with it. There are also hire schemes available, the one advertised at the hospital where I had my baby 11 days ago is for £30 a month. I had a manual Mothercare one which I didn't get on with and now have an Avent one which I don't like either. I've hired an electric one from the hospital (while the baby is still in NICU) and that's better. Good luck.

yes -- i had avent manual 1st time. loathed it and got nothing out. this time got medela mini electric from boots for around 40 quid, and it's noisy, but far more productive. easier to clean,too.

Easier to clean too? Oh thank god. I ahted washing and putting back together that aveda manual pump.

I had exactly the opposite experience of baked potato - medela mini electric at first, it worked ok, but too much noise. Then avent manual, which I liked a lot better, as I could control the pressure. Bit harder on the hands, but a lot quieter.

Renting one or trying one first makes sense, but I think the hospital ones are much better quality than the ones you can buy though (at least at a reasonable cost). And quieter.

I used one once, in the hospital. So the medela is noisy? What does it sound like?

quieter would be nice, i admit. you can't watch telly or listen to the radio while expressing which is a PITA. still, at least it has got me reading again (the da vinci code ).
beatie, no kidding, the medela breaks down into three pieces, nothing too fiddly.

less noisy than a magimix, more than an electric toothbrush. doesn't wake up the children, though

Yeah, that seems a fair description of the noise. And it was easier to clean than the Medela manual.

The noise is good if you're doing CC as you can't hear the crying ... and you can control the "pressure", there's a dial, if I remember rightly.

You can get a not quite as butch but still pretty butch version of the hospital double pump, it's about £70 from Ameda.

But then I am Daisy the Cow, and managed embarrassing amounts with whatever technology happened to be to hand. It is the one aspect of child-rearing that I have ever managed to feel smug about.

Ds2 not born yet, but i used an avent last time, which my sister has now broken, and i have bought a medela for this time - hated not having a free hand last time!

My 5 year old likened the motion of the electric pump to that of a steam train. Lovely. I've been reading around the pumping topic lately and found a figure of 1/2 oz to 2 oz per session (from both breasts) to be the "norm". I was getting worried about the minute amounts I seemed to make.