Supplimental Feeders

[Amazlilith]

I was looking at Supplimental feeders and Breastpumps. I know that their is Lact-aid for the feeders but I thought that there were other ones. Also, which breastpump works the best? Any suggestions would be wonderful.

[OnTheFence]

My baby didnt do well with an SNS. So after I nursed he also got formula. He was irritated with the tube.
As for pumps, I was lowsy with a pump, but I have heard there is a new one out that sucks in a rhythem like your baby's. I use a manual pump when I do pump and able to duplicate my baby's pattern. When I started doing that, I had a lot more milk.

[Clarity]

I have heard better things about the Lactaid than the SNS (sns has gravity flow, lactaid responds to sucking...LA uses bags can go under clothes, SNS uses bottles which is bulkier.)

you could rent a high-speed pump for a while then go to a medela PIS or an ameda purely yours...www.kidalog.com has good prices (canadian).

[mama2m&m]

i used the medela pump in style for about a year and pumped for my dd. it seemed to work well. have you visited

www.fourfriends.com

they are are wonderful website site induced lactation. you might also contact a local lactation consultant and la leche for advice in this area. they might even be able to help you choose a pump.

good luck!

[Laurel]

The Medela Supplemental Nursing System (sns) is the other feeding system, and everything I've heard too is that it is not as conducive to adoptive nursing as the Lact-aid. I used the Lact-aid with ds and found it very easy to use. (It is tedious at first, and it is always a hassle to keep it clean and filled ready-to-feed, but it is not hard.) They say that the lact-aid can be worn under your clothes, but I didn't find that to work for me.

I used a Medela Lactina Select hospital-grade pump. The one they are touting on the Adoptive Breastfeeding Resource Website is called the Whittlestone Expresser, I think. I believe they have a rent-to-own program for it which is quite reasonable.

[Amazlilith]

Thanks for all your responces. I wasn't aware at the time about breastfeeding adopted children when we had our first. I really looking forward to breastfeeding our next one.

:D

[steph]

just wanted to throw in my .02 cents - we use the lact-aid, and it works great for us (esp. compared to the medela sns)...it's a bit expensive, and for us what worked best was to order alot of them (at one point we had 10 - now we're down to 3), so that there were always plenty ready and i didn't have to hassel w/cleaning them immediately after every use... i've worn them under my clothing alot, and the only problem is if dd is wanting to be right on my chest, then it wanted to leak from all the pressure... but i've nip'd with them plenty.... as for the pumps, i actually have a brand new one, that i never used that i'd be willing to sell if you're interested... just pm me and i'll give you the details..

the gals over at fourfriends are really helpfull too.... we did a modified lact-aid w/small bottles for use at home to save buying bags, that someone there suggested... and some of the gals there have nursed multiple kids...anyway, best wishes!!

[Laurel]

Oh, yeah, I forgot. I had six lact-aids--that seemed to be a good number for us.

I think the reason why I couldn't wear them under my clothing is because we were using the large (7 oz?) bags instead of the smaller ones. They were simply too bulky. Also, I am very small-chested, so there was nowhere to hide things. Ds was pretty good at managing to get his hands on the bag and send milk shooting everywhere, so I found it helpful to be able to see the bag at all times. I didn't mind wearing the bags over my clothing, though. I rarely nip'd because ds had such a difficult time and couldn't handle even the slightest distraction.