Why do I need a breast pump? If you give birth for the first time, he can be your savior when establishing breastfeeding.
It is not necessary to listen to nurses' advice that supposedly every mother should be able to decant your hands if necessary. With all the breast pump will be easier, faster and without risk of damaging milk ducts due to improper technique of pumping hands.
Breast needed if the child is not taking the breast and its need of supplementary feeding expressed milk if too much milk the baby is not eating and you or physically hurt by unpleasant fullness in the chest, if you or the child were taken to hospital and need to decant or feeding, or simply to facilitate their state.
However, despite the benefits of breast pump, the price of many scares. On the other hand, because you can not buy it, but rented. Below we consider the pros, cons, the pitfalls of renting and buying a breast pump.
Rental Pros:
- Price. It's simple math: Buy - 3000 UAH, rent - 300. But there is a "pitfall." Talk about him later.
- The ability to quickly restore a breast pump and save your money. Again, the question of money. Indeed, the need for a breast pump can fall away after a couple of weeks.
- The opportunity to try a number of different models. If the landlord offers several models of different companies at the same price - you can this week to try them all at the same time you pay only 1 time. Here, of course, depend on the specific conditions of the company, in which you take out, but it is exactly what's in store this will not work.
- Fairly good condition for their money. Landlord usually cares about its reputation and provides a really normal equipment: serviceable and clean. Places can be darkened plastic, for example, but "you have cheap or go?" Before using those parts of the breast pump that come into contact with the milk, wash enough with the children of dish and pour over boiling water, if permitted by the instruction.
- Your disgust. If you are disgusted to even think about the fact that someone else has already used this breast pump, and now with the help of your child will have if you jar traces of use on equipment - and if it's all you care about more than the price of a new breast pump, the rent, of course, not worth.
- The probability that will break at the right time. Still, you can not know how long and how extensively used breast pump before you have rented. And its shelf life may come to an end suddenly.
- The final cost. If you take a breast pump rental for a week, two, three - it's really beneficial. But if you need it the entire first year of life, or even six months - you pay at least the cost of the new device, but it you will not.
What is the advantages of buying Breast.
- Are you sure that it is new and has not been used by anyone before. Enjoy new things are always more enjoyable, anyway.
- He is with you always and is still under warranty, you can fix the free and used as long as you want. This is especially handy if you're planning to have more children.
- Bought a breast pump can be sold after use and return part of the money spent.
- The need to put up a large amount. When the house there is a child, you need to buy so many things, that each significant waste much effort on the family budget. Especially when you do not know exactly what will come in handy breast pump.
- If you bought a breast pump will not work, you have to spend time / money for its refund or replacement. A resource such as time, usually do not have young parents.
Until the child is born (even if it is not the first time), you will not know whether you need a breast pump. But in order to avoid possible problems in the form of lactostasis and mastitis, better take care of this acquisition in advance.
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