July 2011 Moms

Breast pump question

How important is it to bring this along with you to the hospital?

I wanted to wait to buy one until I was sure that I would be successful, but I have read that you should bring your pump along with you to the hospital. Now I dont' know what to do. I would hate to spend ~$250 and then it not work out.

Any thoughts?

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Re: Breast pump question

  • Not important at all. Barring something out of the ordinary, there's no need to pump for quite some time (for example, I didn't start pumping until my son was 4 weeks old to give us a chance to establish BF-ing/supply first, and then I pumped at work until he was over a year old).  While you're in the hospital, you're just going to be working on latch and baby will get colostrum. Milk probably won't even be in by the time you're released.

    If it turns out you're someone who needs to pump for some reason, your H or someone else can always run to Target or Babies'r'Us.

  • I'm not planning on bringing mine. The hospital provides hand pumps if it's necessary since most mom's don't get their milk in while in the hospital and the hand pump is enough if they don't want to BF.

    Mine is still in the box in case I need to return it for some reason. I've already returned one to Target to get a better price and as long as you didn't remove the "don't remove this sticker" sticker it was no problem returning the pump.

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  • when I toured the hospital, the nurse said do not bring your breast pump- you will not need it. If for some reason you need to pump while at the hospital, they will supply you with a breast pump to use.  You may want to call your hospital to find out what their policy is on this. 
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  • I brought mine last time. *But*, I did so because I knew I was going back to work in a week....so I had to jump start my supply and work on a stash from day one (between regular nursings). LC said that was a smart move. I had a stash within days.

    Other than a situation like that, there is no need (unless you want some help from LC there on set-up, etc)

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  • You don't have to bring your own, but be prepared to be billed for use of a hospital pump upwards of $100.
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  • they gave me a pump to use while in the hospital. i got to keep the parts that are not reusable which was nice since i do not need to buy them now.
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  • No need--I couldn't work on breastfeeding in the hospital because I hadn't gotten weaned off the medicine that we were unsure about yet, so they had me pump and provided the hospital grade Medela pump and gave me new tubing, cones, and storage bottles, which I got to keep (I have an Ameda pump, but the bottles are useful, at least!).

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  • Thanks for all the responses! This helps a ton.
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  • There was a medela pump already in my room. It sounded like every mom/baby room had one since the tag was my room number.
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  • I had my husband bring ours when he came home so that the lactation consultant could show me how to use it.  Other than that if you would need to pump your hospital should have some available. 

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