Medela pump + lansinoh bags+ playtex drop ins?

lansinoh bags don't work too well when attached directly to medla pump.
what you can try is putting the playtex drop-in bottle liners (4 oz ones) into the bottle into which you are pumping and then transfer the milk filled liner to the feeding bottle. or if you are using medela bottles for feeding just attach the nipple to the bottle into which you have pumped.

I purchased 2 medela accessory kits Amazon.com: Medela Breast Pump Accessory Set: Baby

so that I would always have spare bottles and pump parts at hand. This way I only had to wash the bottles and pump parts once a day. or you can also buy a dishwasher basket to wash the bottles and pump parts in the dishwasher.

Amazon.com: Munchkin Deluxe Dishwasher Basket Colors May Vary: Baby

 

I use lansinoh bags, and they work gr8.

 

the lansino bag might be too big to use as a drop in liner. what I did was put the playtex liner into the medela bottle, pump into the liner and then transfered the liner into my son's born free bottle. that worked fine. but if the lansinoh bag fits inside your kid's bottle, then there should be no problem using it that way.

 

no the playtex bags dont go into the freezer.

if you are concerned about saving BM then I'd say concentrate on increasing your supply. the more you pump the more the milk supply will go up. at 6 weeks, I was pumping atleast 5 times per day and my supply was about 85% of it's peak which hapenned at around 10 weeks.

Have you tried feeding your baby with the medela nipples that fit right onto the medela bottles into which you pump?

 

yep it's a good idea to freeze extra milk for later supply. I bought a separate chest freezer for my extra milk as it kept the milk good upto 6-8 months. In the fridge freezer, the milk is only good for upto 3 months and anyways I need the space in my fridge freezer for other stuff. Home Depot had a chest freezer for around $200 and I later sold it for $150 on craigslist.

Lansinoh bags are best for freezing. What I would do is pump into the medela bottles, dump the milk into lansinoh bags (despite what they say on the box, each bag can hold upto 6 ounces), then put back the cap on the medela bottle, left it upside down so the extra milk collected in the cap and then after some time, poured the milk from the cap into the storage bag. I also laid the bag flat for freezing, that way it was easier to store more milk in small amount of space. make sure and label the bag with the date of the milk pumping so that you could use the oldest milk first.

 

Madela has its own Pump and Save breastmilk bags. You can directly pump into the bags and freeze it. It has a neat label where you can write the info on when you pumped etc.

If you want to use the milk from the bags, show the bag under running warm water in the tap or dip in a bowl of warm water after thawing in the referigerator and you can transfer the milk directly into your baby bottle..

Amazon.com: Medela Pump & Save Storage Bags 50-pk.: Baby