- Medela or Lansinoh Lanolin Cream: Varying positions for feeding your child may help to avoid receiving miniature hicky marks from your child’s repeated position.
- Medela Shells: Pending your anatomy, these shields may help with inversion, soreness or engorgement. Beware… if you were blessed to lactate heavily then you may not be able to sleep the entire night with these because of pooling & leaking.
- Breastmilk Storage Bags: These are not the best for the environment yet some people prefer for ease storing, freezing, transporting, etc. I kept a box of Medela Pump & Save Breastmilk Bags at work in the event that I did not have enough bottles for storing pumped milk.
- Nursing Bra Liners: I preferred Madela's Disposable Liners because of my production and snug blouses. There are many options from other companies including more environmentally choices such as washable cotton liners.
- Pump: Although I use a double, electric pump, I never pumped both sides simultaneously. A single pump would have sufficed since I spend pumping time at work by answering e-mails, etc.
- Bottles or bags: Used to store pumped breastmillk. even if you are planning to be sole child provider, you may need to express milk for engorgement or dating.
- Nursing Bras & Tops: Check out my blog on Maternity/Nursing Clothes for recommended stores online and in the Pittsburgh Area (posted June 1, 2011)!
- Nursing Cover: A receiving blanket or larger sized cardigan/sweater will suffice but children with hands that explore while they eat may easily shift or toss these covers aside. Many colorful options are available for purchase in stores, or if you (a family member or friend) is crafty then you may sew your own.
- Blow Pops: I was not prepared for the soreness within the first few weeks of breastfeeding; thus, blow pops were my mouth’s aide to distraction from clenching my jaw or making gasps when our child would repeatedly latch on during the first few minutes of nursing.
Lactation Consultants
The Lactation Consultants at Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC were incredibly helpful during our hospital stay and afterwards! We scheduled a consultation outpatient visit one week after our child's birth. More details are available through the Lactation Center online. A magnet given to use by one of the consultants remains on our refrigerator. It is a comfort knowing that these caring nurses are available by telephone when a question arises!
What supplies do you recommend from personal use or referral?
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