Breastfeeding can be a wonderful experience for mothers and babies. However, it’s not always possible to breastfeed exclusively for various reasons. This is where the use of a breast pump comes in handy. Here are some reasons why it’s good to use a breast pump:
Pumping Helps Maintain Milk Production
Regular pumping helps to ensure that your body establishes and maintains healthy breast milk production in order to provide optimal nutrition for your baby.
Expressing Milk can be More Comfortable
A MomMed Breast Pump can help relieve discomfort from engorgement or overfull breasts, allowing you to express just enough milk to make yourself comfortable without causing an increase in supply.
Pumping Allows for Better Sharing of Feeding Duties
When both parents are involved in feeding the baby, one parent can take a shift with the breast pump so that the other parent has time for other activities or rest periods as well.
Allows Partners to Bond with Baby
Using a breast pump also allows the other parent to bond with the baby by providing skin-to-skin contact, holding, and cuddling while you are pumping.
Encourages a Healthy Milk Supply
Using a breast pump helps keep your milk flowing, which can help stimulate and maintain production even after the baby is born.
Promotes Convenience for Working Mothers
With busy lives often comes the need for flexibility and breastfeeding with a breast pump enables you to work or travel away from your baby without having to worry about feeding them.
Pumped Milk Provides Additional Nutrition
The number of calories and nutrients in each ounce of expressed breast milk will depend on how much time has passed since the last feed, but studies have shown that breast milk is more calorie-dense when it comes from a breast pump than directly from the breast.
Offers Discreet Feeding
If you need to feed your baby in public, using a breast pump allows you to do so without exposing yourself in any way.
Pumped Milk can be Stored for Future Use
You can store expressed milk for up to eight hours at room temperature, or in the refrigerator for three days and in the freezer for six months.
Aids with Weaning Off Breastfeeding
Breast pumps can help ease the transition from breastfeeding by allowing moms to slowly introduce their babies to bottle-feeding while still providing them with an adequate supply of breast milk. This can be especially helpful for moms who are returning to work but would like to maintain a breastfeeding relationship with their babies.
Protects Nipples from Over-Stimulation
Breast pumps can help protect your nipples from becoming sore and sensitive after too much stimulation.
Gives Moms a Break from Nursing
Nursing is an enriching experience, but it can also be hard work and emotionally draining at times. A breast pump allows you to take a break from the constant demands of breastfeeding and let someone else feed the baby for a change.
Prevents Overfeeding
Feeding with a breast pump helps to ensure that babies are receiving only what they need, avoiding potential problems caused by overfeeding.
Creates Backup Supply for Emergencies
Having expressed milk on hand in case of an emergency, such as accidentally running out of formula, can be life-saving for both mom and baby.
Increases Emotional Security
Knowing that your baby is getting an adequate supply of breast milk from a pump instead of relying solely on the mother’s body can help to increase her emotional security and confidence in her ability to provide for her child.
Enhances Breastfeeding Experience
Breast pumps can actually help enhance your breastfeeding experience by providing more choices and flexibility for how you feed your baby. With a breast pump, you can accommodate different schedules, locations, and other situations that may arise.
