Breast shield size

I have a 24 right now, which really hurts and I cant get any milk out. How do you know if it's the right size?

 

My LC measured me and moved me up to the Large shields. HERE is the info on the Medela website about how to choose a correctly fitted breast shield. HTH

 

I had been using the 24mm shields for the first 3 months, but wasn't really pumping all that much and it was kind of uncomfortable. I went ahead and ordered the 27mm size, and it has made things little bit better -- definitely more comfortable and maybe a little more milk. It wasn't the huge improvement I had hoped for, but it was worth the $11.00 anyway......

 

Also be sure to slather LOTS of lanolin on BEFORE pumping. That also makes a big difference

 

A new custom-designed tungsten-antimony breast shield reduces radiation dose to the female breast during chest CT by 43% to 73% without compromising diagnostic image quality, say researchers from the VCU Health System, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Physicians, in Richmond.

For the study, the researchers constructed a tissue-equivalent female breast, referred to as a breast "phantom," and measured the radiation dose incurred during a chest CT scan at different quadrants of the breast phantom, both with and without the use of their breast shield. They found their custom-designed breast shield effectively reduced the radiation dose delivered to different portions of the breast between 43% and 73%.
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Vanessa

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