I bought the Tommee Tippee Express and go, on the basis that the whole system seemed simple and a good idea. The pouches, which you pump into, the make up part of the bottle instead of pumping into a bottle, ripping into a pouch if needing storing, then back into a bottle when required.
Seemed like a good idea. However, there’s so much plastic wastage as you can’t reuse the pouches, the pump is noisy and I didn’t find it work all that well for me.
I did have a Haakaa (sp?) suction pump and certainly in the early days found that the best and got loads off.
Eventually, at 8 months, when we had failed miserably to give bottles, mainly due to my lack of motivation to pump as it was a faff and seemed like such a waste of time as it’d take longer than actually feed, I bought the Elvie. And my god, what a life changer. It’s fantastic. But bloody expensive. But the ability to pump, silently, whilst I just carry on with normal activities is so worth the cost. I can be pumping and cooking tea, or doing the washing, or just playing with DS. Since buying it DS has had at least one bottle a day which is great as I can now leave him for fairly reasonable lengths of time.
Personally I’d say is 100% worth the money, for ease of us. But it’s a lot of money to find. If you do decide to go for it, look for Boots Points offers, as I got £48 worth of points when I bought it. Plus £5 cash back through Quidco. Plus the resale value is about 85% of its cost.