Expressing Your Breast Milk; After Pumping - Medela Harmony Instrucciones De Uso

7.2 Expressing your breast milk

CAUTION
• Do not hold the pump by the bottle.
This can lead to engorgement and blockage of the milk ducts.
• Only fill the bottle to the 150 ml mark.
• Contact your healthcare professional or breastfeeding specialist if you can express only
minimal or no milk or if expression is painful.
Refer to figure ¢5 on the foldout pages.
1. ¢5-01 Start pumping with stimulation: Using your thumb, press down the smaller part of
the handle. This is the part with the milk drops on top. Press and release quickly, again and
again, until your milk starts to flow.
2. ¢5-02 Once your milk starts to flow, switch to expression: With your fingers, press down
the lower, longer part of the handle.
By doing so, you build up a vacuum that facilitates the milk flow. You control the level of the
vacuum with the speed of the handle stroke and the compression that is created.
Decide yourself which pumping rhythm is the best for you.
3. Stop pumping when you feel that the milk does not flow anymore or when the bottle is full.

7.3 After pumping

Prepare the milk for storage as follows:
1. Unscrew the bottle from the connector.
2. Use the bottle stand to prevent the bottle from tipping over.
3. Close the bottle with a lid.
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