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Member Reviews: Ameda One-Hand Manual Breast Pump with Flexishield Areola Stimulator (Non-Sterile)

Positive Reviews

Mosaic

Works surprisingly well!

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Pros: simple, small and light-weight

Cons: a little tricky to hook up the first time, squeeks

This came with my new Ameda Purely Yours, and it was my first venture into manual pumping. I have to say, it's a simple and elegant design! I love that it's small and lightweight, so I can pack it for trips out of town when you never know if DD will get a cold and nurse less, so that I'm guaranteed relief. I had to read the instructions a few times and stare at the pictures a bit to figure out how to attach it the first couple times I used it, but then I was impressed with how well it worked! I love that I can use it with the pump parts I'm already very familiar with, and it's very easy to increase the suction just by squeezing a little harder. Oh, mine does squeek sometimes, which...
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Negative Reviews

JulieInChicago

Not as good as the Medela

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Pros: portable, compact, fits with pump horns

Cons: squeaky, not ergonomic, not very strong

I have both this and a Medela Harmony and far prefer the Medela.   The biggest problem is to operate it, you grab it in the palm of your hand and squeeze.  By the end of a 10-15 min pumping session I always have blisters between my thumb and forefinger from the blue plastic cutting into my hand.  It's very uncomfortable.   It's also very difficult to adjust the suction on this one.  You can easily pump faster or slower but it's difficult to get higher suction or lower suction.     It is handy, though, to keep in the bag with my Purely Yours pump and use in case the batteries on my electric die.  I think that's the only reason I'd use...
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