Reddit mentions of Medela Pump and Save Breast Milk Bags, 50 Count

wow those clip right to the pumping funnel? Thats awesome. Once I run out of my lanisho bags I'm going to switch. Thats two less bottles I have to wash/steam after every use! Thanks *edit: after reading reviews I'll just stick with the lansinoh ones and keeping washing bottles.

I use these to freeze milk. I've heard of people reusing them, but I don't since I only use about 4-5 a week.

We typically send 10ozs/day to daycare for my 10 month old, which usually gets eaten if we are lucky. 5 of it is stuff from the day before that I pump and 5 is from my freezer stash. When I pump each day, 5 goes to the fridge and 5 goes to the freezer. This way, my baby gets some fresh and some frozen while at daycare.

Good luck!

There are these, although the reviews don't seem that stellar.

I have a Hygeia, not a Medela. But my process is, pump into bottles, transfer to bag and send bags to daycare with one bottle. Our daycare provider then pours the milk into the bottle herself, so there's less dishes for us that way. I believe some daycares require you to send individual bottles though, so that may not work for you. Either way, I only use the one set of bottles to pump into, refrigerate them with the bags of milk in between pumpings and then just wash them once at night at home (usually in the dishwasher, less hand washing that way).

You could just pump into bottles and cap them to send to daycare, you don't necessarily need a huge stash. My IBCLC actually recommended that I not start pumping until a week before I went back to work. It depends on your supply and how you react to the pump, but the average woman pumps a perfect amount in one day to send to daycare the next day. Then you only really need a stash for emergencies.

Just some options to think about!

• I bring all the items I need to actually pump (tubes, flanges, etc.) of course, then I used to bring the attachable bottles but I found these bags save a lot of time, and now I don't need to bring the bottles. I pump straight in the bag and give it to daycare at the end of the day. I also bring the little bag that came with the Medela Pump In Style. It's black and small and can conceal the milk and pump parts as I walk around the office putting them away, etc.
  
  
• I have the PIS so the bag is built in. I super super love it.
  
  
• The first couple weeks I would wash everything in between and it was a pain in the ass. I then just did the zip loc bag trick. Cut down on a lot of time. I found a little plastic zip-able folder here at work (the kind you can snap into a binder and keep pencils in). I used two of those, one for each boob accessory. I didn't really wash them in between, which might be gross but oh well.
  
  
• At first I pumped three times a day, then when I got busier at work, twice a day around 10:00 and 2:00. I stopped nursing (just pumped) for a week while on antibiotics, then got my period, then kid got sick and now is highly distractable and more interested in food...so my supply has taken a big hit. The past couple of days I have been able to make it BFing her in the a.m. and then after I pick her up from daycare and she gets formula and solids the rest of the time. I believe if I were more diligent and kept pumping, it would be fine, but she is happy, I am happy and we made it six months EBF so I'm pretty proud of that.