Mahjong,
Don’t know your friend for sure.
Chrisl,
You will not want to dishwasher wash your breastpump bottle and parts. I used both medela Pump in style (double electrical pump) and avent manual pump. Is cleaner to wash by hand as the part you have to use the bottle brush to wash. Imagine initially you pump like every 3 hours, how many times you have to wash? Hand wash faster for sure.
What you can do is source for a pump that you want. I know which pump I wanted to buy, so I went to the shop and paid and reserved it, only after delivered my #1 then I bought it, if not, I can exchange with other items. Your milk supply will not come in till 4 or 5th day and gradually increase, and I have like 2 litre everyday till the day I wanted to stop breastfeeding. So after you divide the frequent you pump and result you get, is worth the money. I bought extra manual pump is for go out use as my bb cannot clear all the supply, so I hv to pump and throw away after I latch him.
JoJo,
Possible. Just monitor, if you hv no spotting, should be ok.
Han,
I also do like Ivian, change to FM when my #1 turn 8 weeks old for the last feed before midnight for like a week. Then is will only wake up once at night. After a week, I change back to EBM to monitor his intake, and it has no different, I switch back the midnight feed to total BM after 1 week. And sometimes I lazy, I just latch him directly and he will not wake up as well. Try to pat bb to sleep, after a few days, it will be fine. Jia you jia you.
Ayukie,
Yes, kids like have the six sense, they know mommy is pregnant and will cling to us. My #1 also the same, super sticky even b4 I knew I pregnant. He will tell the helper “I want my mommy to settle me” (e.g brush teeth, shower, make him sleep).
Rykiel,
Electric pump sure faster. But once your supply is in and a lot, accordingly to the sales person, it doesn’t matter you use manual or electric type. I used both, initially just electric one, 15 mins settled. Manual pump is single pump, you can only pump one side each time, so take longer time. I used 15 mins for dual electric pump, takes around 30 mins for single to get the same result and my supply is a lot, easy to express out as well. If you insist and persistent on bf-ing, do consider a electric pump, save a lot of time. You can do research first, I got it only after I deliver and I started to have supply 5th days after delivered.
The pump in the pic you posted in single pump, I got the dual one, pump in style. Heavier but swear with it, GOOD! Is a bit expensive but if you got full supply, save on FM as well ma..
To have to good supply, you must eat a lot and drink a lot of fluid. I drank 3 litre of warm longan red dates water everyday for 40 days, and every meal is 1.5 big bowl of fish and papaya soup till 8 mths. And one big fish everyday plus other food.
Just remember don’t give up on the first few days if the supply is little. My supply came in on 5th day only. And I got to know a girl, her MIL don’t encourage her to BF, and during confinement, the MIL take care of the BB and don’t allow her to latch the baby but once after confinement, she back to her own house and insisted on breastfeeding and supply came in as well.
Miko,
Hi and welcome. Pro NG in Gleneagles is good.
Louise,
I have experience the same thing as well. Vomit every night.