Electric breast pump

[BabyOne90]

Hey everyone 😃
I’m just looking at electric breast pumps, do you have to have the same brand as bottles you use? As I’ve read some reviews and they say you can’t use different bottles of them I’m not sure! You have to stick to one brand?
I am looking at using MAM bottles but do I have to have MAM breast pump?

Any recommendations or help would be greatful. First time mum 😃👶🏼

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I'm not sure with all brands but in my experience I used the medela pump and used mam bottles
You just pour the milk from the pump bottle into your bottles you are using / from milk storage pouches to bottles

I never had a problem, I think it's more that they mean you can't attach say mam bottle onto a different brand pump because it'll be a different size. Doesn't mean you have to only use one, you may find it useful or easier but also babies can be picky with bottles so could end up changing between pump type and bottle type anyway

Sorry if that's not answering it exactly, happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!

Thankyou!
So it's safe to transfer the milk from them bottles to either a tub to keep in or different bottles?

Hi 🙂

Pumps usually come with bottles that you can store and/or give the milk in. But you can easily decant from the pump bottles (any brand) into a mam bottle if that's what you want to do.

Milk will only last so long in the fridge (3-5 days MAX). I didn't mix milk from different pumping sessions unless preparing it to serve to avoid wasting milk or giving milk that was too old.

Just FYI I used a Lansinoh 2in1 pump, it came with 2 bottles. I then used bags to store milk in the freezer 👍

Hi, yeah it's safe to do that, it may just be a fath rather than using the bottles in your set but depending on how much you are pumping to use or store you'll probably want to use bags or other storage anyway.

Good tip for freezing is to write a.m or p. M and the dates on. Morning and night breastmilk is slightly different :)