When to Use a Breast Pump

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For many years now, the world has been told that one of the best gifts that a mother could give to her baby is to breast-feed (nourish) him or her. Due to this, many people have been actively pushing for parents to choose breast-feeding over formula. However, with providing ones baby with the best food, comes with its own challenges and due to them, a pump can be very useful.

Some of these challenges are:

Engorgement

Breast engorgement (enlargement and overflowing of the breast due to milk) is a common occurrence for women who have just given birth. This painful and at times fever causing issue, can be handled in a few ways and three of them are: breast feeding the baby even more often than you are doing presently, expressing some of the milk with your fingers and of course use a pump.

Medication

There are differences of opinions when it comes to medication transferring from the mother to the baby via nursing. Nevertheless, there are cases where mothers who are on medication will need to stop nursing for at least 12 hours and this is where a pump will come in handy. You can store some of your milk in the refrigerator or freezer before taking the medication so that your child remains well fed.

Away from Baby

If you are a mom who will be working away from home, pumping and storing your milk will also be profitable for you and your baby.

Bonding for Fathers

Breast-feeding is one of the best ways that a mother can bond with her child and bottle-feeding breast milk is an avenue that fathers can use to bond with their child as well. At nights when mummy can hardly open her eyes to attend to the baby, daddy can step in by taking the bottle.

Measurements

"New" mothers are usually anxious about how much milk their babies are getting and therefore desire to know exactly how much they are drinking. Therefore, by pumping the milk into a baby's bottle will give you the measurement.

Therefore, if you believe that a pump will be helpful to you, you have a choice of three types to choose from and they are electric, battery operated and manual.