https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:55:56 +0000 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:39:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=40180 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375719&title=which-breast-pump#1375719 Author: JoJames
Subject: 40180
Posted: 13 August 2011 at 8:39pm

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.]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:39:26 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375719&title=which-breast-pump#1375719 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375367&title=which-breast-pump#1375367 Author: squoggs
Subject: 40180
Posted: 12 August 2011 at 5:29pm

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!
]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:29:54 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375367&title=which-breast-pump#1375367 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375358&title=which-breast-pump#1375358 Author: Plushie
Subject: 40180
Posted: 12 August 2011 at 5:16pm

ereynolds wrote: 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

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!]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:16:37 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375358&title=which-breast-pump#1375358 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375252&title=which-breast-pump#1375252 Author: luvmylittlies
Subject: 40180
Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:15pm

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. ]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:15:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375252&title=which-breast-pump#1375252 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375245&title=which-breast-pump#1375245 Author: ereynolds
Subject: 40180
Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:01pm

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]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:01:34 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375245&title=which-breast-pump#1375245 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375175&title=which-breast-pump#1375175 Author: Spacette
Subject: 40180
Posted: 12 August 2011 at 10:55am

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.]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:55:15 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375175&title=which-breast-pump#1375175 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375051&title=which-breast-pump#1375051 Author: reeces_mum
Subject: 40180
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 ]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:05:49 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40180&PID=1375051&title=which-breast-pump#1375051