Pozza Cannot Escape The Night Feeds

Advantages: Expresses milk quickly; Reasonable price
Disadvantages: Noisy; Shortish battery life

...the pump if your nipple is halfway up the tube! (Ouch!!) After activating the pump the first thing I noticed was the noise level. It really is quite loud and makes watching the TV quite difficult. This is a shame as it makes the pump quite indiscreet to use. I couldn?t imagine, for example, that I could use it in the toilets at work if Jon is still on breastmilk in 4 months time. The pump supposedly mimics the suck-release-relax action of a baby to stimulate the milk flow. The advantage over a baby is, however, that it doesn?t fall asleep while attached to the breast, making the whole process a lot quicker! Jon is currently having bottles of 4 fluid oz and it usually takes me between 10 and 20 minutes to express this from each breast, making up two feeds in one go. Compare this to the half an hour to an hour Jon would feed from the breast...

AnitaM 04.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Medela Mini Electric Breast Pump

easy to use breast pump

Advantages: Easy to use
Disadvantages: Not cheap

...I made sure that when I had my first baby I got a good breast pump so that I could not only enjoy breastfeeding my litle one, I could also ahv some time off while someone else fed my son but he still had breastmilk. This pump is a nice size and doesnt feel uncomfortable and you can adjust the strength. I found in the morning I was able to express more and I didnt use the strength of the pump to get some milk The importance of pumping while feeding is that it tricks your body into believing you are feeding baby and you therefore produce more milk. I kept this pump and used it again recently for my second child. the pump is durable and if you do need any assistance the customer service at medela is very good. Kim http://www.kiddycat.co.uk...

kiddycat 08.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Medela Mini Electric Breast Pump

THE NEXT BREAST THING

Advantages: Clear measurement readings, durable, the nest best thing to breastfeeding
Disadvantages: Can be pricey at some shops

...have paid about £7 more. As our baby was born premature (4lb 7) it was recommended that we fed him by bottle so we could keep an eye on his intake and my partner wasn?t really interested in breast feeding so we started using these immediately with SMA Gold formula. Look & Feel ************** The first thing you will notice about the clear bottles are their easy to hold curved shape which is fatter on top and narrower at the base making it less likely to lose grip whilst feeding and they are also very light. The shaped bottle top is also very easy to push-click into place, which touches the end of the teat tightly to prevent leakage. On the side of the bottle there is a nice clear measurement display showing ounces and millilitres (up to 260ml) in black. The black markings make all the difference as I have other bottles with clear...

mdstone 17.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Feeding Bottles

Breast feeding

Advantages: Better for your baby
Disadvantages: NO one else can feed your baby

...Breast-feeding is much better for your baby than bottle-feeding. Your breast milk has all the antibodies in that powered milk doesn?t. I breast feed one of my babies till she was one and a half years old and found it really easy and fitted in with my life but my last baby it didn?t fit in and so stopped when she was 6 months old. Some people find it easier to breast feed than others and when you first start you have to find a position that is comfortable for both you and your baby and make sure your baby is attached to your breast properly so as you don?t get sore nipples and the baby is getting milk. Once you have found the right position then it should go right every time you feed your baby. All people are different and our lifestyles are different to so breast-feeding isn?t for everyone. But it does give your baby a better start in...

shugardream 17.10.2002 (18.10.2002) · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Breastfeeding

Boots breast feeding shells

Advantages: very useful for over active breast you're not feeding on
Disadvantages: none

...Whilst breast feeding my baby, I had an awful problem with the breast I was not feeding on. It leaked so badly that within seconds I was completely drenched. And breast pads were not working that well as I produced so much milk. My neighbour gave me her second hand Boots breast shells, which was fine as they were made of simple plastic and were easy to sterilise. They were fantastic. They solved my problem straight away. This meant that I could freeze the extra milk and use it when needed. I ended up with bags full of milk, which I could use with her cereal or if my husband wanted to feed her by bottle. I would not have walked around wearing them all the time as they made the breast look slightly strange, but I always popped one on when feeding and could even wear it discretly in public whilst feeding. I tried a similar brand and it didn...

samwifewithkid 28.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Boots Breast Shells

Breast Pads for your breasts not your bra!

Advantages: Don't show under clothing, reusable, easy to clean
Disadvantages: Difficult to put on, not very sticky, not very discreet to use in public

...milk when they aren't supposed to, whereas traditional breast pads just work by soaking up any leaks, rather than preventing them. I was quite fortunate when breastfeeding my youngest in that I didn't have so many of the problems that I experienced with my first. One issue that I did have was simply having too much milk! Daytimes were generally fine as my baby fed regularly and the milk seemed to respond and come and go accordingly. Luckily, I didn't really have any embarrasing leaks during the daytime so only occasionally used breast pads when I was out in the evenings without my baby. The night times were another matter altogether though. My youngest did, obviously, feed through the night when he was a newborn but he never seemed to need quite as much milk as my breasts wanted to produce on the night shift! The end result was that...

jo-1976 03.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of LilyPadz Non Absorbent Breast Pads

Second best to Breast

Advantages: wide neck and different teats avaliable
Disadvantages: none so far

...When I was pregnant I knew I was going to breast feed but I also knew that I had to buy some bottles aswell to use with my AVENT breast pump and as these bottles screw directly onto the pump I hadn't even thought about buying another brand apart from AVENT. My aunt had used AVENT with her babies and so had more or less everybody else who I knew with children... I went and bought an AVENT microwave steraliser (another great purchase!) which came free with four of the 4oz little bottles, I also bought 4 big 9oz bottles at the same time, along with AVENT baby talc and massage oil, breast pump, breast pads and everything else that goes with babies (the list is endless!) PRICE ****** The bottles dont come cheap, but they are in my opinion the best so, I think that you only get what you pay for and your baby is worth it anyway...

JADELOUISESILVA 02.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of Avent Feeding Bottles

Feed Day or Night with No Probs!

Advantages: Convenient to have beside the bed
Disadvantages: Noisy when the warmer is heating up.

...Just after I had Murray I started expressing some milk to allow daddy to help with the feeds and let me get some sleep as having 2 children under 3 was very tiring with very little sleep, with having to breast feed all night long. The first few nights when Murray wakened he would scream while hubby was down stairs getting the expressed bottle out of the fridge and heating it up. By that time I had just latched Murray on and breast fed him. After a while I gradually started introducing to formula to try and get him to go longer between feeds and give me a break as I was at breaking point. Hubby was happy for this but he was fed up going downstairs, switching the kettle on and waiting for the bottle to get the chill off it. So he decided enough was enough and off he went and came back with a Lindam Day and Night Feeder. Costing £29...

Groovee 24.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Lindam Night & Day Feeding System

Breast Pads You Can Use Again!

Advantages: Enviromentally friendly and cost effective!
Disadvantages: They can be seen through your clothes if you wear tight tops.

...Advent Washable Breast Pads I am very proud to have been able to breastfeed my gorgeous baby girl and have used lots of things to help me keep up the good work, these being one of them. When you are breastfeeding, you often find that your breasts become very full just prior to feeding time, and a certain amount of leakage can occur. I find that mornings and late evenings are particularly bad for this and so I use breast pads to stop the milk showing through my clothes. In the beginning, when Eva was tiny, I used disposable ones, but was pretty shocked at how quickly I went through them, and how fast I could fill and plastic bag full for the bin. The idea of filling our landfill sites with soggy breast pads did not fill me with glee, but rather horror, and so I looked out an alternative, and this is it! The box of pads contains 6...

phoenixgreen 05.02.2008 (04.02.2008) · Read review
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Review of Avent Washable Breast Pads

Facing up to breast cancer

Advantages: It can be treated and, much more often than not, cured
Disadvantages: It's on the increase among women, and traumatic to have

...Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in the UK, and it's on the increase. At present, about one woman in nine can expect to suffer breast cancer at some point during her life. If current trends continue that proportion is likely to grow in the future. All women are at risk of this horrible disease and need to be aware of it. That's the bad news. The good news is that the rates for cure and long-term survival among breast cancer victims have improved dramatically in recent years, so much so that, even as the number of women developing breast cancer has grown, the number actually dying from it has fallen. If detected early, breast cancer is one of the most easily operable and treatable of cancers. Although the treatment is unpleasant, it's incomparably better than dying. Whilst I do not claim to be an expert...

torr 18.11.2007 (21.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Breast Cancer