Advice about induced lactation and adoptive breastfeeding?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at
1:41 am
I’m going to induce lactation so that I can breastfeed my adopted baby. I need help picking a pump, and supplementer. I’m stuck between the Avent and Ameda. I’m also trying to choose between a Medela supplementer and the Lact-Aid supplementer. Please tell me the cons of the products, and any other suggestions about induced lactation or adoptive breastfeeding you may be able to share. Thanks!!
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First of all you are amazing. The fact that you are doing this is great. The experience of breastfeeding is amazing. Ok now onto your question. I know your looking at the Avent and Ameda pumps but I have to tell you that the medela pumps are amazing. I am military and we have a room for mothers to pump in so we talk about everything. We all love the medela pumps. We have two moms that were having problems pumping enough milk and were using Avent pumps, they both switched to the medela pumps and they got more milk. I do also know one mother in our group who loves the avent pump because you can set your own speed manually. I will also tell you if your having a lot of trouble pumping enough try renting a hospital grade pump fron medela. We have two at work and all of us have commented on the fact that we get more milk when we use that one.
As far as the supplemental feeding I don’t have any experience of my own but there is a website thats for adoption and breastfeeding and they said:
Of the two, the Lact-Aid is by far preferred by adoptive mothers over the Medela SNS, by mothers who have had a reasonable amount of experience with both (yours truly included!). Among the features which make the Lact-Aid more convenient for adoptive mothers, most of whom must use it many times a day for many months, are that the Lact-Aid is:
– much easier and faster to put on and get set up to nurse (which is important when there is a baby screaming to be fed!)
–much easier to conceal under clothing and use discretely in front of others
–more comfortable to wear
–easier to adequately clean
–easier to use lying down or slumped down in a recliner
–much easier to use without tape, which can cause a great amount of skin damage
–more conducive to proper suckling.
The information is from a mother who has breastfeed 6 adopted babies. Good luck and I hope this helps.
Both links I have included suggest lact-aid for supplementing.
All I can tell you is that the manual pump I had purchased was so slow, that i resorted to just expressing
the milk manually by hand.
I found it so much easier and faster.
Sorry, I dont recall the name.
But i just wanted to let you know in case you had the same situation…..
Very noble thing you are doing! Have you talked to your doctor about inducing lactation? Or perhaps lactation consultant? They may be able to help you, also get in contact with your local LaLecheLeague to see if they can help you with anything as well.
Here is a website that is probably better geared to help you,
http://breast-feeding.adoption.com/
You should really rent a hospital grade pump and probably only one kind is available where you live.
Nursing Supplementers
http://www.fourfriends.com/abrw/Darillyn%27s/supplementers.htm
Lact-Aid vs Medela SNS ?
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=478536
Notes from "Induced Lactation and Adoptive Nursing"
http://www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/adoptivebf.html
Preparing to Nurse Our Baby;
Learning about Adoptive Nursing
http://marimar_1.tripod.com/a_nursing.html