Medela Pump & Save Breastmilk Bags - 50 pack
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: MedelaBrand: Medela
Model: 87034
Product features:
- Convenient and sterile; these sturdy double;wall bags protect your precious breast milk and easily work with your Medela pump
- No;leak; easy;close zip tops
- Stand;up bottom prevents spills
- Attaches directly to breastshield with self;stick strap
- 50 bags
Description of Medela Pump & Save Breastmilk Bags - 50 pack
Medela Pump & SaveTM Breastmilk Bags 50-pack - Medela 87034.Designed for the collection, storage and long-term freezing of expressed breast milk, Medela's Pump and Save Bags make it easy to keep fresh, nutrient-rich breast milk on hand for feedings. Safe and sanitary, these are the same bags as those used in hospitals. Compatible with all Medela breast pumps (except the Single Deluxe) for pumping directly into the bag, the Pump and Save Bags are both pre-sterilized and disposable for safe handling and quick clean-up.
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The Pump and Save bags are specially designed to securely store breast milk. They feature a quick cleaning, leak-proof zipper top for easy open and close as well as to keep milk safely contained.
In addition, the no-spill, stand-up bottom lets you rest the filled bag on a countertop while recording the name, date and time in the convenient labeling area. And once in the refrigerator or freezer, these bags line up and stay in place for effortless, space-saving storage.
Safe and Sanitary Storage
Because it's so important that everything in contact with baby be clean, sanitary and chemical free, the Pump and Save bags are made to be safe for the collection, storage and feeding of breast milk. Each bag is double-walled to remain fresh during long-term storage, and all parts that come in contact with breast milk are 100-percent BPA/DEHP free. Made of special plastic, these bags also retain breast milk's beneficial properties so every feeding truly nourishes your growing child.
Easy to Use
When it's time to store milk or feed baby, Medela knows you don't have extra time to struggle with complicated procedures. That's why the Pump and Save Bags are made to be easy to set up and move to the refrigerator or freezer.
For optimum convenience, the exclusive self-stick strap attaches directly to the breast shield for fast and easy set-up without any struggling with special attachments. Then you're ready to pump directly into the bag. Once you begin, clear markers tell you when you reach the 150 millimeter mark, which helps ensure that milk, which expands as it freezes, won't cause a mess once stored.
About Medela
Founded in 1961 in Zug, Switzerland by Olle Larsson, Medela is committed to supporting the WHO Code's depiction of breastfeeding and breast milk as the optimal nutrition for the growth, development and health of babies. The company believes it is their obligation to offer a complete solution, "from breast to belly," of high quality products that enable mothers to provide the optimum nutrition of breast milk to their babies. Today, Medela's primary focus remains to help moms successfully breast feed their babies as long as they wish. This goal lies at the heart of every product the company develops.
What's in the Box
20 Pump and Save bags, instructions and specifications.
Baby Products Reviews of Medela Pump & Save Breastmilk Bags - 50 pack
Customer Review: Good idea, lousy product
Summary: 1 Stars
I love the idea of being able to pump directly into a bag -- eliminate the middle-man and avoid washing extra bottles! Unfortunately, this bag just is too problematic to work. You might think that these bags are specially designed to work with Medela pumps. Not true. There's just a piece of tape at the top of the bag to hang it off the pump. And the tape doesn't even work well for all Medela pumps! I use the In-Style pump, and these bags fit OK, but it's still pretty precarious trying to pump into them, because of all the problems below.
As a number of other people have mentioned, the ziploc seal is *very* finicky and easy to not seal correctly. I've had the seals fail so many times that I now check and double-check them multiple times and I've *still* had them fail! Somehow the zipper mechanism seems to get off track, so you can zip from each of the two sides and have a gap in the middle that you can only close by opening the whole thing and starting over. And it's not obvious when it's not zipped correctly. It's also hard to open, requiring both hands and a lot of force, which can cause spillage if it's a full bag.
A second problem is the fact that the bags are wide open at the top while you're pumping. So you have to be careful to avoid spilling if you pump a full bag, or if you're not sitting straight up, or if you lean to reach something, or if the milk is caught near the top of the bag (see next complaint).
Third problem: the plastic the bag is made of is very stiff, which makes it difficult to get the bag inflated. This is not helped by the fact that there is no finger-hold or other way to pull open the bottom of the bag to help it inflate, so you really have to open it from the top, either by sticking your finger in or blowing it up, both of which defeat the purpose of having a sanitary bag. If you go ahead and pump without inflating the bag, the milk pools up near the top of the bag until there is enough weight to make the lower part of the bag open up. Unfortunately, sometimes the weight of the milk doesn't make the bag open up soon enough, and you end up spilling or overflowing the milk out all over yourself (and potentially ruining the leather chair you happen to be sitting on, and needing to re-wash the pants you just washed that morning -- grr!! Since the milk is body temperature, if you're not paying attention when it spills you don't notice it for a while and you can pump out several ounces before it cools and you feel how wet your leg is!).
And finally, as others have mentioned, the bags only hold 5 oz, which isn't always enough for a full pumping. If the bags were a little easier to work with it wouldn't be much of a problem to just switch out the bag mid-session. But since it takes both hands and some wrestling to get the bags open and closed, you don't want to have to do that mid-session while your boobs are dripping all over you.
As much as I like Medela, I have to say I'm more than a little disappointed in them for selling this product. I would have given them two stars for selling a bad product, but they lose an extra star because clearly they didn't do much product testing on this one. And I do blame them for the big stain on my leather upholstery! Avoid this product!! A piece of tape on a Lansinoh bag would work *much* better!
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