So I keep reading that medela has a button for letdown, but my medela doesn't have any button. It just has 3 different speeds. How do I use my pump to get the best possible output?
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My medela is different - yours does not appear to have a button.
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Which Medela is that? I don't see one.
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Well I thought it was the PISA, but now I'm not sure. I got it through Byram. They say it's Medela Personal Double Pump (MY57038)"
Eta: I thought it was the Pisa but just without the fancy bag, but obviously it's different.
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I think there may be a difference in the PISA (a for advanced I think) and just a PIS. I had a freestyle.
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I had a pisa and it looked way different than yours. Mine had the button, it looks like yours doesnt.
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Not all the medela pumps have the let down button. It looks like this or with the drops actually on the button:
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Ugh that sucks. I thought I had the advance. Does anyone know the best way to use this one with the different speeds? I usually start of on low, then up it to medium after my milk starts flowing.
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I was told in the hospital to start as high as I can stand/is not painful and increase to maintain.
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@MrsH: oh OK. Thanks! Maybe I'll be able to get more this way. I had no idea what I was doing, lol. We are giving LO a bottle at night and she drank 5.5 oz last night! Yikes. I only get about 2 oz per pumping session which is decent but if LO keeps that up, I won't be able to keep up with her.
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@abbydabbydoodlebug: thirsty girl! Hope it helps!
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@abbydabbydoodlebug: The letdown part is really fast-- mimics baby sucking fast at first. So I'd do whatever setting is fastest until your milk starts flowing, then go to regular speed. I don't usually adjust the suction between the two (but I'm not at all an expert).
As for the 5.5 ounces, she may have drank that much because it's so much easier to take it from a bottle. The first time LO had a bottle, she drank it SO fast and it had taken so long to pump it! Make sure you are giving her the bottle slowly so she has time to realize when she is full. Also, over time I've gotten more when I pump, but I'm usually doing it in between feeds, not in place of them. When I actually do it to replace a feeding when I'm away from her, I do get more.
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@Foodnerd81: 2nd this. First time we gave LO a bottle we used the standard med flow nipple and he ate 5 oz in about 5 mins. When we switched to the slow flow he only drank about 4 oz!
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@Foodnerd81: We've been giving her a bottle for a couple weeks now. We learned from our first bottle we gave her... She puked it ask up! Lol. We take lots of breaks now. She usually only drinks 3 oz but she had her 8 week shots yesterday and slept most of the day so she was probably hungrier than usual. We'll see what she drinks tonight!
The low speed seems to be the fastest but lightest suck. Medium is slower but firmer suction, and high is slowest speed with hardest suction I think.
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