How To Use Haakaa When Not Nursing

This will help heal the nipple and make breastfeeding your little one less painful.

How to use haakaa when not nursing. You get the milk while nursing simple preparation and cleaning. How to put on your haaka. How haakaa can help you collect more milk. This is how i ve been ab. Here is an updated review of the haakaa pump.

Unlike regular pump whereby you need to set up the bottle flanges connect to the tubings and turn on the pump and adjust the setting some more using haakaa is super duper easy. Once the pump is secure and comfortable you can squeeze the base of the pump not interfering with the top suction to create some movement. This is especially true in the early weeks whereby you want to focus your effort to breastfeed your baby and not spending too much time fiddling with the pump and washing numerous pump parts. I m actually wondering if i got two if i d be able to pump pretty decently that way. Invert the flange squeeze the air out of the base as much as possible line up your nipple with the centre of the flange.

I have too much trouble managing it when lo is nursing on the other side. The haakaa can also be used to relieve sore or cracked nipples. It s all about suction. Those early days of breastfeeding can be rough on your nipples. The haakaa pump is a silicone pump that i use while breastfeeding to catch breastmilk.

Not long term but maybe occasionally when i don t want to fuss with the electric pump. Then you can relax while haaka does the work for you. Here s a helpful video that shows you how to do this. In addition to nipple cream you can fill a haakaa with warm saline water and attach so that your nipple sits in the water. Just latch it to your non nursing breast and that s it.

I ve been able to use it as a pump to stimulate letdown and have gotten 2 3 oz a few times without lo. To collect leaks when you are nursing your baby on one side tandem feeding and haaka. Even then your supply will be all over the place and you may find that one day you can collect a few ounces and the next day you don t collect anything. Some nursing moms that are using the haakkaa as a milk saver find that once their baby gets a bit bigger and starts kicking and moving around a lot while nursing they need to wear a hands free pumping bra to ensure their haakaa stays in place while they nurse. And then flip the flange back over your breast.