Not exactly a question you'd expect from a guy

[sraun]

kosmickitten is about sixteen weeks along now. She's starting to think about dealing with a baby - they're doing baby registration, and she's pondering breast pumps. She thinks she'll be an occasional user - she's not working, and by the current schedule she'll be done with college. So, what she wants is the capability to leave enough milk with bernesemntdog, a sitter, or a relative, that the baby will do fine and she can go do something away-from-baby for a few hours. So, she's looking input. Electrical vs. manual. Any specific brand/model recommendations or dis-recommendations.

If you really want to write a monologue in comments here, go ahead and I'll forward it to her. If you'd like to have a dialogue with her, leave me contact info and I'll have her get back to you.

Comments

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

I'm with Dek9, forget about the manual. After the first time you'll be out buying the electric. Might as well just start with them. And unless you're working, the ones from Target should be good enough. If you're working full time, you probably want to go with the bigger ones that work faster. I used to take a 15 minute break twice a day and get enough milk for the whole day. With the smaller electric ones, it'd take a good 1/2 hour to get 8oz of milk.