Milkies Milk Saver is a silicone cup that collects your breast milk on your non-nursing side. When I first heard about it, I honestly thought it was a little strange but interesting. I know that I leak a lot but didn’t ever think about collecting the milk from the non-nursing side while I breastfed. Even once I read about it, I questioned how much I would actually collect while breastfeeding.
When I got the Milk Saver, I made sure to try it out while I was at home. It does say on the website that you can slip it easily in your bra and it will be unnoticeable, but I wasn’t so sure. After positioning it, I did find that it was mostly unnoticeable, but you could see the edge just a bit. I am not sure if it is something that I would try to do out in public anyway, but it was easy to use for when I am nursing at home.
After using it the first time, I was totally surprised at how much milk was collected in there! It seemed to be about an ounce. I couldn’t believe that I was essentially wasting that much milk on my non-nursing side when I breastfed! I was pretty excited that I collected that much and after my daughter was done nursing, I went to go put her down in her swing so I could empty out my Milk Saver into a storage bag. Well, when I bent over to put my baby down, all the milk spilled out of the top of the Milk Saver and onto my baby and the swing! Haha. So, I learned the hard way to take the Milk Saver out of my bra, and rest it in the case it came with, which also doubles as a stand. Fantastic idea!
Since then I have continued to collect milk with the Milkies Milk Saver, yielding different amounts each time. However, I can easily get a few ounces a day. It’s amazing to me that all this milk was getting wasted each day. This product would be great for mom’s who need or want to store milk for future use. I have no particular reason for “needing” to save my milk since I am currently a SAHM, but now that I know how much I can collect in one day, which would otherwise go wasted into a breastpad, I make sure to grab my Milkies Milk Saver so I can collect whatever I can for future use.
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What a neat looking idea! I used to pump one side while I nursed on the other but never would have thought about collecting what leaks.
This is really timely for me as I’ll be giving birth 2 months from now. It is really interesting that aside from being able to collect those milk, this can really free you from the mess that usually comes along with the leaking
Being a first-time expectant mom, I really know nothing about breastfeeding, which I did intend to do. I really didn’t know that both breasts have let-down when you are breastfeeding. It’s an amazingly simple idea and I’m totally surprised nobody’s thought of it ’til now.
I will soon be a mom for the fourth time, and I’ve always wanted to breast feed. I usually get very discouraged about the third day into it, due to the other side leaking so much, it seems like such a hassle and a mess, I always end up taking the easy way out and using bottles instead. With this product however, I can understand how much more convenient it would be to have all that extra milk saved and handy for those times when i just don’t have time, and need an extra set of hands do the feeing for me (like my husband). It would be very nice to have extra milk stored for that purpose.
Great idea! I saw an ad and have just run through your website and plan to go out and get one soon. I’m a 5th time mom, I’ve breastfed all my kids, although my first also needed bottles since she didn’t nurse well/properly. If I’d had this (OK it hadn’t been invented) she would have had more breastmilk than formula! Sounds Waaay more comfortable than pumping (which didn’t work for me, even though I was doing it to build supply). I’m running to get one. My only question is, can I use it at night? If not, maybe there can be some kind of improvements in the near future to do so?
We just purchased some milk savers and were busy collecting milk. Bent over and lost it all! So we took out the inner rectangular insert. Stuck a zip lock sandwich bag in the outer collection cup. Put the insert in the bag,reattached collection insert to outer collection area, cut hole in bag and zip shut. To empty milk, unzip bag, pour out into jar and rinse bag. To be safe, replace bag every 6 to 8 hours.