Medela Swing

Does anyone have any feedback on it?

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I love mine. I’ve exclusively pumped for 14 months with it. A friend recommended it to me, she had an older model she let me borrow, I ended up buying a maxi swing.

The first one I had was faulty and died at 2am 30 days after I bought it (ie: 2 hours after the return window closed on Amazon), but it has a year warranty so Medela couriered a replacement to me the same day. That one is still going strong!

It’s not the type that can sit in your bra, but you can make it hands free with a pumping bra.

I tried a lot of different pumps and it’s the only one I got on with! It’s very intuitive to use and has less parts than other pumps I tried.

I have this and love it. I bought it instead of my elvie and I get more output. The elvie is better for out and about as it goes in your bra but I use this at night and I can’t fault it x

do you wear a pumping bra or just hold the flanges?

I wear a pump bra x

in our community

Wdy think of this for a toddler to learn word construction?

I'm open to anything else to start teaching him to read and write. He's 3!

Do men really enjoy fellatio?

Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

Vanilla extract

Has anyone used alcohol free vanilla in their babies formal to help them drink?
I’m 100% sure my baby refuses her bottles as she doesn’t like the taste of it!

Just anxious to try it, don’t want her to get used to it and then refuse bottles again after two weeks of using (correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read you use it for 2 weeks max)

TIA 🙂

Naps

How is everyone doing for naps?

Little one is 9 months old and will have 2 half hour naps and one solid 1 hour - 2 hour nap a day

Then settles for night around 9pm. Wakes for a feed around 3:30 then sleeps until 6-7

Pumping advise

FTM to a 2 week old! I’m breastfeeding and then giving one formula bottle last in the evening before bed. I want to start expressing milk to give me some breathing room and also allow my partner to be more involved in feeding. I’m finding the idea of introducing pumping into my day quite overwhelming though. I don’t want to take milk away from my baby by pumping if he needs it during the day when being breastfeed.

Can anyone advise how I start pumping and when to do it? Thank you!

Sex post C section

Hi ladies I’m 4 weeks 5 days postpartum and I had a C section. I’m not bleeding properly anymore just some brownish discharge stuff that starts on and off. I’d like to do the deed with my partner; is it okay to do so or shall I wait the full 6 weeks. I feel up for it but also worried because the advice is 6-8 weeks.