I bought my first breastpump before the delivery of my 1st child. Don’t know why, but breastfeeding and expressing breastmilk was,to me, part and parcel of having a baby. An ex-colleague of mine kindly advised against getting a hand operated pump citing ‘hand cramps’ as her major issue with them. So my first pump was an electric single breast pump. My first…..not my last!

I went through three electric pumps in the first one and a half years. My major problem was backflow of milk into the darn motor. Once that happenned, there was no chance of using the pump discreetly. The motor would sputter and it would begin to sound like I was taking a ride on a motorised sampan in Phuket everytime I used it. At this stage, the pump would only last a few more days before it ceased all noise making….and operating, permanently. Then came the urgency to replace it immediately so that I could continue to express my milk for my allergy-ridden baby.

After pump number three started giving me problems, I decided to invest in an Ameda Lactaline double pump which I bought from the Breastfeeding Mothers’ Support Group in Singapore. It was really a pleasant upgrade! No more backflow problem, no more noisy motor and it was super efficient in getting me to have a letdown.  Phew!

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My 1st baby was breastfed for 3 years. I am really very thankful that I was able to continue to express my breastmilk when I went back to work just before he turned 2 months old.

Truth be told, my employers actually encouraged me to continue breastfeeding and allowed me time and space to do the ‘daily pump’. In turn, I shared my experience and helped our clients who were new mums embarking on their breastfeeding journey. I recall helping a young mum who was not too sure how to position her baby during feeding. Having my own experience made it all so natural for me to help her out.

I finally quit my job to look for a position nearer to my home so that I could spend less time commuting and more time with the baby. I was offered a place which was literally a stone’s throw away from home. This meant that I could use my lunchtime to go home and express milk, which in turn meant, no more carrying my pumpand breastmilk bags around! How blessed I was to have everything fall neatly into place….

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I’ll be the first to admit that I did not really know much about breastmilk when I started breastfeeding bub no1. All I knew was that I wanted to try it out and was encouraged to do so by my colleagues, my gynaecologist and the paediatrician.

I’ve definitely come a long way from then and would just like to share a few insights on breastmilk – so here goes…

• breastmilk is by far superior to any and all infant formulas, it IS the Gold Standard for human infant nutrition- formulas are ony superficial replicas of breastmilk, they in no way contain all the nutrients available in breastmilk nor do they deliver the common nutrients to the baby’s bloodstream as effectively.
• to this very day, medical journals are still describing new discoveries on valuable substances found in human milk. Scientists are only just beginning to write on other factors in breastmilk that may be important to baby’s growth and development.
• every deficiency in formula milk that is rectified is marketed as an advance or breakthrough in infant nutrition…even I was wondering about the DHAs recently advertised to be included in formulas. Hello! These are all components of breastmilk
• breastmilk is a ‘live’ substance which contain enzymes, hormones,antibodies and living cells (white blood cells) all of which aid in baby’s development. These are all notably absent in infant formulas.

There is just so much more information on the goodness of breastmilk. You can read a bit more about it here and look at a comparison with formula here. I really feel that there is a lack of awareness when it comes to breastfeeding. It is still more the exception than the norm amongst most mothers to breastfeed totally for the first 6 months of their baby’s life.

Well, if you knew that you were paying premium prices for an inferior product, would you still buy it? Especially when one that is proven to be THE best in its class is practically free?

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