Plan to nurse primarily but know that I will need to pump and store at times.
I have already decided on an electric pump, most likley a Medela.
But - I dont know if I should purchase a dual or single pump. I am thinking single because I doubt I will be using it daily but you can get more milk much faster when dual pumping...
I'm sure lots of you ladies have had to make this decision so.. Should I just go with the Medela single Swing pump or a dual pump? As for the dual pump I am thinking Medela as well or the Lasinoh dual electric pump.
Help and opinions?
Update:Oh, and I will not be going back to work anytime soon after our son is born.. at least not for a year or so.
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I have been using the double pump fromm Ameda since my baby was born 7 weeks ago and LOVE it. I got the Medela Swing (single pump) just yesterday, and love it even more! It is mich more compact, and efficient, and costs a heck of a lot less. pumping both at a time has also been a bit awkward for me. I don't have out of one breast while pumping the other. I pump eachh for 5-10 minutes and get about 6 or 7 ounces ... works for me. I would recommend the Swing for your situation, since you will not be using too heavily ... save yourself the money, there are plenty of baby stuff you'll be able to get with that extra $100, and trust me, you'll need em ... all the best, and congratulations : ).
Dual is much more convenient.
I have both a Medela Pump In Style Advance and the Ameda Purely Yours (aka the Lansinoh Double Electric).
The Lansinoh is actually more efficient, it weighs less, it costs a heck of a lot less and I prefer the tubing system on the Lansinoh to the Medela. Check out reviews on Amazon and similar sites.
I am a huge fan of the medela pump in style. It has a car adapter, and is dual. Which hunni, unless you are magic and can only make milk come out of one breast, you need a dual pump. When my letdown happened it would be both breasts and without a dual I would be wasting liquid gold. Good luck, anything by medela should be great, but definately opt for a dual. Good luck.
I would definitely recommend the Medela. Whatever you do, do NOT buy an Evenflo pump, they suck.
I have had issues with a low supply lately (my daughter is 4mo) and I have just recently rented a hospital grade Medela pump. I did alot of researching on reviews of different pumps and Medela seemed to do very well.
I would recommend the dual pump for 2 reasons.
The electric Evenflo I have is a single pump and it took me forever to pump both breasts efficienty, especially being at the house just baby and me. The dual pump works wonders. Also, it increases your prolactin levels which helps increase your milk supply.
http://breastfeeding.suite101.com/article.cfm/choo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactin
http://www.menstruation.com.au/breastfeeding/breas...
http://books.google.com/books?id=s5RSGLuMnnEC&pg=P...
Good luck!!! And congrats on the soon to be new baby!
Edit: I don't work myself, but you never know what is going to happen to your supply. I planned on exclusively breastfeeding for at least one year, but luck wasn't my friend in this matter. I would rather be safe than sorry. Plus, the double pump is way more convenient that the single.
I have the Medela double, and I have been singing its praises to the rooftop. It is such a wonderful pump. I have used it through three children, and it is a workhorse! I usually use it as a single, but sometimes as a double too....it's good to have the option. I could not say enough good things about it. Good luck to you, and congrats.
btw....what's up w/ that first poster???? weird.
Don't buy a pump.
Rent it for at least the first 2 months.
My hospital rents them for $55 per month. They normally cost over $1200, and work great (a yellow medela with 2 tubes).
Renting means that if you find out you can't produce enough milk, you don't have a useless breastpump in your closet until baby #2 comes along.
It also means that you don't have a lot of useless breastpumps that don't work very well.
if your not going back to work you will most likely feed from the breast except for occasions so I would suggest the single but I would buy a medela pump.
The more you breast feed the more milk your body will produce, I'm not sure maybe the Madela, singke pump, that way your husband could feed the baby also, but it have come from you!
THE 1ST OF JANUARY. 1. He loves nothing but to have himself embuggered, and he is never able to find too thick a prick. But, says Martaine, she'll not lay much emphasis upon this passion which is too simple a taste and one wherewith her auditors are far too well acquainted.
2. He wishes to depucelate none but little girls between the ages of three and seven, in the bum. This is the man who had her pucelage in this manner: she was four years old, the ordeal caused her to fall ill, her mother implored this man to give aid, money. But his heart was of flint. . . .
And this man is the same one of whom Duclos spoke on the 29th of November; the same again who appears in Champville's story of the 2nd of December. He has a prick of colossal proportions, he is enormously rich. He depucelates two little girls every day: one of them in the ****, in the morning, as Champville related on the 2nd of December, the other in the bum, in the afternoon; and he has a quantity of other passions as well. Four women held Martaine when he embuggered her. His discharge lasts six minutes, and he bellows like a bull while it is in progress. His simple, straightforward, and adroit method of threading her needle, even though she was a young thing of four; describe all that.
3. Her mother sells the pucelage of Martaine's older brother to a man who sodomizes boys only, and who would have them exactly seven years old.
4. She is now thirteen, her brother fifteen; they go to the home of a man who constrains the brother to **** his sister, and who alternately ***** now the boy's ***, now the girl's, while they are in each other's clutches.
Martaine proudly describes her ***; Messieurs request her to display it, she exhibits it from the platform.
The man she has just spoken of, she continues, is the same person who figured in Duclos' story of the 21st of November, the Comte, and who will appear in Desgranges' of the 24th of February.
5. He has himself ****** while embuggering the brother and sister; the same personage Desgranges will refer to on the 24th of February.
That same evening, the Duc depucelates the bum of Hébé, who is merely twelve. The operation succeeds only at the price of infinite trouble: she is held by the four duennas and administered by Duclos and Champville. And as there is to be a festival on the morrow, in order that things run smoothly then, Hébé's *** is also, on the evening of the 1st of January, surrendered to the society, and all four friends take full advantage of it. She is carried away unconscious; has been buggered seven times.
(Martaine must not say that she has a uterine deformity; that would be false.)
THE 2ND. 6. He has four girls fart in his mouth all the while he embuggers a fifth, then he changes girls. All rotate: all fart, all are embuggered; he does not discharge until he has finished with the fifth ***.
7. Amuses himself with three small boys: embuggers and has each of them ****, puts all three to each task, and frigs the boy who is inactive.
8. He ***** the sister in the mouth while having her brother **** into his mouth, then he reverses their roles, and during both exercises he is embuggered.
9. He embuggers none but girls of fifteen, but only after having, by way of preliminary, flogged them with all his strength.
10. For an hour he pinches and molests her buttocks and asshole, then embuggers her while she is flogged with exceeding violence.
The ninth week's festival is celebrated upon that day: Hercule weds Hébé and ***** her cuntwardly. Curval and the Duc take turns sodomizing first the husband, then the wife.
THE 3RD. 11. He embuggers only during mass, and discharges at the moment of the Elevation of the Host.
12. He embuggers only while kicking a crucifix about in the dust; the girl must treat it with like contempt.
13. The man who amused himself with Eugénie on Duclos' eleventh day has the girl ****, wipes the well-beshitted ***; he possesses an outsized prick, and embuggers, ploughing into the asshole behind a consecrated Host.
14. Embuggers a youth, has a second youth embugger him, both ploughing, as above, behind a protective Host; upon the nape of the neck of the boy he is embuggering rests another Host, and a third youth shits thereupon. He discharges thus, without changing position, but while uttering fearful blasphemies.
15. He embuggers the priest while the latter is in the act of saying mass, and when the priest has performed the consecration, the ****** withdraws for a moment; profiting from this brief interval, the priest buries the Host in his ***, the ****** returns straightway to work and re-embuggers him, tamping in the wafer.
That evening, Curval, with a Host depucelates in the bum the young and charming Zélamir. And Antinoüs ***** the Président with another Host; while *******, the Président's tongue pushes a third into Fanchon's asshole.
THE 4TH. 16. He likes to embugger none but very aged women while they are