Breast pumps!

[Gothbaby]

Hey everyone , just looking into advice about breast pumps if anyone has used/is using them! Ive still got lots to buy so are there any manual/electric out there that are cheap and affordable! Any advice would help :-) xxxxxx

I hired a hospital grade medela pump last time and will do the same again this time - about £45 a month. Adds up but they are really effective a quiet. I found expressing difficult so needed a really good pump!

I've had to use them for both mine as for various reasons they didn't feed initially. I personally would suggest not buying one until you actually need it, they're expensive and if you don't really need one you can get away with a cheap hand pump to do the odd bottle. However if you end up actually having to need it constantly you'll need an electric one and none compare to the quality of the ones hired out from the hospital.
I sincerely hope you never need one it's very hard work and can really test your resolve.

Ardo is a great make - it's the company which the hospital have. I got a double one direct from them and it arrived the next day if ordered before 2 I think. I agree with pp only get one once you know you need it, it's much harder than breastfeeding direct. You can also hire them from them too.

Hi, I had a medela swing after trying all sorts of different pumps I found this one was the best of the bunch and cheaper than the hospital grade one.
The others I had tried went straight into full on sucking where as this one has two different motions to mimic the way a baby would feed. I found it took the milk quickly and emptied my boobs fully, it also helped to increase my milk production.

I BF my first baby for 2 years. 2nd is 11 weeks, used pump twice for first baby and not even got out of loft for 2nd yet. I found machine expressing really hard and time consuming (could have been due to pump) personally I wouldn't spend loads on a pump until you're established bfing and know you are going to use it

I didn't get a pump until I went back to work and ds was still feeding in the day. In hindsight, I wish I'd started expressing earlier as I wouldn't have been unable to leave my ds for more than two hours at a time for a year and I'd have had some stored up milk when I went back to work. But mine was a very specific case of a premature baby with a dairy allergy and no interest in food! I would still start expressing fr early on this time though, just so someone else can do the occasional feed.