Boots or Tescos TENS machine ???

[melsy]

I have no capacity it seems to make any decisions. I dont know which one to hire. Tescos use the mama tens and Im not sure of the boots one, but I did use it for dd's birth. Are they all very similar ?

Ive been told the best ones is the Baxolve by Slendertone - They are on ebay but cost £85.00, Ive ordered one with the intention of selling it on afterwards.It has 4 pads too, some one on here said you need to have 4 pads and not the ones with two pads.

birth tens normally do have 4 pad I think. 2 padded ones are for sports injurys I think.

dh will freak if I spend more money!

I know its madness - how much having a baby costs. Its much cheaper second time round though

Can only comment on Boots one but it was great (4 pads) worked a treat. Very simple hiring system , staff lovely.

I have hired a labour tens machine with four pads and a booster button from these people, not tried it yet though - £18.50 for six weeks.

New Road Clinic Website

May I offer you the chance to elarn from my mistakes?

Make sure you have a test drive with said machine, in order to avoid electrocution as your dp fiddles around with the damn thing and turns it up to maximum at a critical moment in labour.

LOL, Good idea I think I will get my DH to practice on getting the levels right using his leg, before he gets near my back

I've just got mine from TENShire.co.uk.
£24 including p&p and an extra battery.
Got it for 6 weeks.
Ordered it monday afternoon and got it Tuesday morning!

I used the Boots one -it was great, no problems. Even came with spare batteries.

I also liked the fact that afterwards you sent it back in a pre-paid padded envelope so no having to trudge into town post-baby to take it back.

I bought the mama tens one from Blooming Marvellous in the sale - should have been £80, got it for £40 plus free p&p. Rented one first time around, but it had a separate boost button so I had lots of wires to fiddle with! This one has it built in - lots better.

I hired mine from www.tensmachinedirect.co.uk £25 for 6 weeks with free delivery it has a booster hand held button for extra pain relief Fantastic

why are you bumping all these TENS hire threads??

I also used tens-hire.co.uk for 2nd baby - that 6 weeks hire period was essential to me as DS1 was 2 weeks overdue and the last thing I wanted was to have to worry about whether I had extended my hire.
Also, its run by a mother doing this hire business from home, I'd always rather give business to an independent retailer than boots or tesco.

Oh, durrr just realised this thread is a year old.
Better to report it to mumsnethq it looks like someone doing some sneaky advertising without paying the £30 small ad charge.