hi

you can rent an electric pump from most hospital for just ten pound as i know i brought an advent pump myself and was not cheap but usless.

expressing and stright to the breast worked great for me as my daughter was in nicu for three weeks.

my breasts did not produce milk untill i first expressed but i found i had so much the nurses asked if i could donate to nicu.

make sure you relax and try not to stress about how much or when you produce. and if you have to use formular it is just as good.

good luck hope all goes well.

lol what a story!!

As long as it's normal, i will wait until a few week before baby is due and try express.  I don't want to start something if its perfectly fine as it is. thank you for you reassuring words.

Thank you for that!  On a related topic, should i be worried that my breasts haven't started leaking? Im 24 + 3

Yup you just might find expressing hard to start with some woman manage fine others struggle ive got 10 month old twins and to start with they were just BF then we started expressing and hubby gave them the odd bottle they ALWAYS latched on fine after a bottle and until a stay in hospital a couple of weeks ago they were still happily breastfeeding, and would accept either from the breast or the bottle no problems, only stopped now due to expecting again 1st Jan and having not fed them for a whole weekend while in hospital it seemed like the ideal time lol  xxx

Yes mine does, iv got 11 day old baby girl and had problems with bleeding nipples so had to express whilst they healed and am now back onto breast feeding and expressing so OH can feed to and she takes either

Hi girls and boys!

I'm hoping to breastfeed my baby if possible but i don't want DP to miss out on that part.  I was wondering if anybody could tell me if me if i breastfeed and my partner does a bottle feed of expressed milk on a monring when he gets in from work, will the baby take my breast again? I hope that makes sense

Thanks

Mandy

22 + 4 with a blue bump