Medela Starter Supplemental Nursing System with 80ml bottle. A disposable system ideal for short-term (24-hour) supplemental feedings at the breast. Quick Clip; attaches to mom’s clothing for maximum convenience. Sterile packaging Product Features This comes with the bottle
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Added on: May 30, 2018 - More: Comments & Reviews
Medela Starter Supplemental Nursing System with 80ml bottle. A disposable system ideal for short-term (24-hour) supplemental feedings at the breast. Quick Clip; attaches to mom’s clothing for maximum convenience. Sterile packaging
Warning: started kit is not intended for long term use. This was wonderful in the beginning! I thought I would love it for a long time. The instructions says “Wash with soapy water after each use.” Then it says in bold letters, “Discard after 24 hours.” Really? It’s only good for a day? Yep, at the end of the day when I first got it, I tried to wash it well with hot soapy water to use again the next day. It warped the plastic just enough that it doesn’t seal and is ruined now. It makes sense now why we are suppose to discard this…
Worked for us Pain in the ass to use and clean, but it was one of our options to feed the baby in the first couple months, when he wasn’t able to breastfeed due to tongue tie. Eventually we both figured out breastfeeding (I sucked at it, too! took a while to learn positions), but in the meantime, our options were 1) syringe-feed him, which took FOREVER…fill syringe, slowly squirt in mouth, refill, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat….. So when we got this SNS, that made it easy because we could just fill…
Works well for the first few times. This seems to have a lot of bad reviews but I think people forget that this model is the disposable version. I had no issues myself and managed to get 4-5 uses out of it before it stopped working which was all I needed to decide whether or not this was something I could do with my son. The tube connection is very delicate so you have to be careful not to pull too hard on it or it’ll break and be useless. My only real complaint is that the clip on it sucks. I ended up holding it up in my hand…