Which Breast Pump???
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Topic: Which Breast Pump???
Posted By: reeces_mum
Subject: Which Breast Pump???
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 7:05am
Hi Mums... does anyone have any hints on which of the *cheaper* breast pumps are any good? I was given an old school crap one with DD and it was useless, I ended up hand expressing into a cup for months. I dont really want to spend big $$$, are the modern manual ones easy to use, or is it really worth the extra $$ to get an electric one? There are so many on trademe to choose from! Thanks for your opinions 
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Posted By: Spacette
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 10:55am
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I quite liked the avent manual I got on TM (once I took the 'letdown cushion' thing off) and medela mini electric was ok too, although noisy. That's all I've used though. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: ereynolds
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:01pm
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I have a Medela Harmony (manual pump) and found it great! I was expressing a couple of times per day and didn't have any problems with it. If I was expressing fulltime I would have invested the extra $ into an electric though ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: luvmylittlies
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:15pm
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I always got more and faster using a manual hand pump (medela something) than my electric but bought a second hand medela swing because I was expressing a lot though and was a bit over the hand pump. So it really depends how often you're wanting to pump and how much money you have. But if you're a bit short and only going to be doing it once/day or less then I'd just go with a manual one. ------------- Adoring Mum to Talisin 8/9/11 and Kiara 18/01/10 |
Posted By: Plushie
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 5:16pm
Ditto, i brought one of these for $10 of TM. I used it full time for 3 weeks when i was donating milk but other then that only occasionally whip out 50ml to cook for DS. If i were going to pump more i would invest in a double boob electric so i could milk both sides at once. I hired a power sucker from the hospital in the early days, i think it was a medula as well actually, it was huge but boy did it suck! |
ereynolds wrote:Posted By: squoggs
Date Posted: 12 August 2011 at 5:29pm
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I got handed down a fancy-pants medela electric milking shed thing (similar to the city style I think) that apparently cost $1000, and to be perfectly honest I prefer the avent hand pump I bought to take travelling, its just as effiecient (except one side at a time) and i got really put off with the electric one because of the awful milking shed sound, which affected my let-down!
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Posted By: JoJames
Date Posted: 13 August 2011 at 8:39pm
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It depends how much you want to express, my manual avent one works really well, and I don't think they are too expensive.
But when we were in NICU and I was expressing 3 hourly I wouldn't have been able to without my electric pump. ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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