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Lansinoh Affinity Double Electric Breast Pump (Health and Beauty) I bought this breast pump reluctantly after two manuals didn’t work well. I’m a stay at home mother and exclusively breast feed, so I needed this pump for date night and mixing cereals and just plain staying infertile….so I saw all the great reviews and bought this pump from Baby’s R Us. I was sorely dissapointed in the process. I thought I would hook them up and bam there would be plenty of milk with little effort and easy cleanup….not so much. I paid extra money for this. First thing was the noise. I can ONLY pump when my DO is asleep. We live in a one bedroom apartment and so there’s no place to hide. I just shut the door and pray. It woke her right up both times. It sounds like hippos humping (no offense). I couldn’t even hear her when she started crying. Then there was the suction. I couldn’t believe how little suction it offered. I pumped for 10 minutes with both breasts attached. I barely got 2 oz and was very tired of holding those bottles in front of me. How do you working mommas do it??? So, I thought how much more suction my manuals had but they seemed to break down eventually by 3 months of use. It makes sense though, most manual things do work better; I’m paying for ease of use I guess. I just didn’t think it easier at all. It was tiresome, loud, stressful and once I got them on, I didn’t have hands to adjust the settings! Now, I’m in search of a single breast pump manual or electric that really sucks and is very quiet! Please let me know if you know of one. It’s not cool that someone spends loads of money on these things for your baby’s health and then can’t return it when it doesn’t work well. Breast pumps can be boiled for 10 minutes and are completely safe to use. They even make you boil them at first use anyway, which makes me think they are returned and reshelved more often than we think. |