When to buy breast pump
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Have you started to use yours yet? Would you recommend it?🩷
Not at least until your supply has established. Pumping before then can cause you some problems. Presenting baby with a bottle could also come with it's own problems, primarily bottle preference. Highly suggest speaking to an IBCLC before birth to arm yourself with some BF knowledge from a professional in the field.
Not to worry you or say this will happen! But a few hospitals don’t let you leave unless they know you have a pump if breastfeeding isn’t clearly established. This didn’t happen to me, but it happened to three women in my NCT group who were at 2 different local hospitals. I would suggest having a cheaper manual pump ready for this reason. I really like the Medela hand pump and I used that over the electric one whenever I had to pump. But in the first few weeks, I just used collection cups and the haakaa ladybug for letdown. I had to collect expressed milk to do top ups for my son because he had a tongue tie and lost weight initially. I bought a hands free electric on a recommendation and never got on with it. Spent a small fortune replacing parts to see if that was the issue and it wasn’t. If I were to do it again, I wouldn’t bother buying a hands free electric personally!
I’m hoping to do the same. I’m going to buy the Medela hand pump to use initially, and if I switch to more expressed than breast fed milk I’ll probably invest in a more expensive electric one x
Whenever it's on offer. I bought mine at like 20 weeks or something and just stuck it in the cupboard 🤗