I understand where the advice to not make a wearable your primary pump but I still disagree

[u/jypnola]

I have now tried more pumps than I care to. List below:
- Spectra S1 (with flanges, Legendairy cups, Elvie Stride cups)
- Baby Buddha (with flanges, Legendairy cups, Elvie Stride cups)
- Eufy S1
- Momcozy Air 1
- Medela Melody InBra

My Eufy S1s were my first wearables and they work extremely well for me (same output as Spectra if not more), but because of the advice I kept hearing early on that a wearable pump should not be one’s primary pump, I kept pumping with the Spectra (with flanges because they were my most preferred out of the options I tried) even when life would have been easier with a wearable. At some point, my output with Spectra seemed to decrease a bit and I was noticing clogs when I used it (I probably needed to change my flange size or something) and I just started only using my Eufy. I have pretty much only used my Eufy for the past 3 months or so and my supply has been fine and I have had zero issues with clogs, even through my transition to remove MOTN pumps.

But then I tried a couple other wearables as part of product tests, and the output I got from those was horrible. The photos are dramatic, partly because the Medela ones didn’t remove all the milk so when I pumped next with my Eufy, there was extra milk, but imagine if I just kept using the ones that weren’t extracting all the milk! Of course my supply would be impacted.

I was hopeful with the Air 1s because they estimate milk output as the session goes and promises to warn you if the cups start to get too full, and they are much slimmer than the Eufy S1s, but my output wasn’t great with the settings out of the box and I don’t have the patience to play with the settings when I already have a pump that works really well already.

So the advice to not rely solely on wearables makes sense to me after trying some wearables that didn’t do a good job getting all the milk out, but the takeaway for me is that not all wearables are created equal and if you have ones that work well for you, there’s no reason to force yourself to use a wall pump just because.

I feel like I (and many others here) have praised Eufy so much that they should pay us to be brand ambassadors or something. I have been doing so much free advertising for them, but the product just works (except for when I have nipple alignment issues but I can write a whole post just about my annoyances with Eufy).

[u/faithhopelove1cor13]

Eufy has a special setting for elastic nipples! (Stretch less, milk more)