Brand Name: My Great Baby

Product Page: https://amzn.com/B01GBQNKWQ
List Price atm: $23.97

Firstly, a product such as a breast pump is going to be highly subjective. So please take your personal needs into accounts while considering ANY of them. If you read through many of the reviews you’ll see some women say that they think the suction is far too low where others mention that it’s too high and then the rest think it’s right where it should be. There are other details that also fall all across the scale throughout the reviews. This doesn’t make some right and some wrong, this just shows that everyone is different.

I breastfed my first child for two years and am ramping up to feed my second starting in November. I m an On Demand Breast Feeder and did not often pump. Part of this was being O.D. part of it was that in trying three separate high end electric breast pumps, I did not find one that worked well for ME. I hunted down properly sized flanges, I learned the mechanics of the machines, I educated myself and spoke to consultants. Electric breast pumps just are not very effective with my body, and I had a HIGH supply nearly the whole two years, so that was not an issue. I could literally hand express more efficiently than these machines worked.

With this in mind, while I prepare for Baby #2, I wanted to pick up a manual and hope I had better luck with it. This came across my path and I thought I’d check it out. It arrives in a pretty simply box and is what I consider to be rather straight forward. It’s nice that they include a set of breast pads and two bags. I will say the pads are not pretty or heavy. But I did not order this for breast pads. I do not know whether the bags are freezer safe or strictly fridge storage.

I found the pump and bottle to be easily disassembled, which will be nice for cleaning regularly. It was also easy for me to put back together. Everything seems to function smoothly when you’re just testing the construction. I like that it comes with a cap for the funnel. I would probably be keeping this for trips out without my little one, so I like that I won’t have to worry about dust and lint getting in it. Even better is the fact that this cap snaps onto the bottom of the bottle, helping it to stand since it’s unbalanced on it’s own. All of the caps and cap inserts are universal within the product and fit the necks of both the bottle cap and the pump head. I like the included rubber flange insert, as I would not be able to use this with just the hard plastic funnel, it’s neck simply being too large for me. The rubber insert makes it manageable and non-painful.

Again, I am 33 weeks pregnant. So OBVIOUSLY I’m not going to be sitting down to pump a full 5 ounces. I did try it anyway; to test suction, fit and ease of use. I found the suction to be of medium power and honestly thought it would not be very effective due to it’s lack of power. The angle of use was not uncomfortable for me, but the handle does slip off if you’re not EXACT in your pumping motion. If you change speed or twitch, it may dislodge from the plunging mechanism. It’s easy to put back on, but it is annoying. This makes it not a five star product. I also found the cap over this to wiggle loose, killing the suction, these two things need to be adjusted in production. I WAS surprised to get about .25 oz colostrum in about two to five minutes. Again, I am luck y and have not had issues with production, so I know this is high and fast. But it was still much more than I expected from a product with mid-level suction and a wonky handle. Enough that I would consider this product to be effective and worth keeping, for me personally. I will say, that as some ladies point out, not all of the moisture found it’s way to the bottle. A very small percentage of my very small pump got lost in the works.

Annoying? A little. Functional? Yes.

I received this product complimentary in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.