The other reason that I waited so long is that the flanges that I had were working and I wasn’t exclusively pumping so I figured it wasn’t worth stressing over.
Sure, I read the instruction book that came with my pump and there was a diagram in it that showed what a too big and too small flange should look like but do you have any idea how hard it is to judge if your flange fits the way it shows in the picture? (Below is a picture similar to the diagram in my user manual) I mean my pump happened to come with two sizes of flanges and I knew for sure that one size was too big but if the other one was right? It seemed OK! To be honest I didn’t even know that there were additional sizes available that didn’t come with the pump and when I did find out… I assumed that they only came bigger (because that what was always discussed when I heard/saw it brought up) rather than the smaller size that I actually needed. This topic wasn’t even touched on (as far as I can remember) in my breastfeeding class that I took before my son was born and unfortunately with breast pumps and their subsequent parts, there’s no “try before you buy” option so I didn’t have anything to compare.
One of the biggest reasons that it took me so long to realize that I was using the wrong size is that as a new mom I had no clue how the flange was supposed to fit or how the pump was supposed to feel. I discovered about 8 months into my nursing/pumping journey that I had been using the wrong flange size and I WISH that I had known this much earlier on.
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