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reeces_mum 
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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 
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Spacette
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Posted: 12 August 2011 at 10:55am |
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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.
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ereynolds
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Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:01pm |
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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
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luvmylittlies
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Posted: 12 August 2011 at 1:15pm |
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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.
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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!
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squoggs
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Posted: 12 August 2011 at 5:29pm |
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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!
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JoJames
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Posted: 13 August 2011 at 8:39pm |
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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.
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