Expressing Your Breast Milk - Medela Freestyle Flex Mode D'emploi

Operating your breast pump (cont.)

8.4 Expressing your breast milk

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• Do not hold the pump set by the bottle. This can lead to compression and blockage of the
milk ducts and engorgement.
• Do not try to express with vacuum that is too high and uncomfortable (painful). The pain,
along with potential breast and nipple trauma, may decrease milk output.
• Contact your healthcare professional or breastfeeding specialist if you can express only
minimal or no milk or if expression is painful.
Make sure that the tubing is not kinked or pinched while pumping.
freestyle
CAUTION
NOTICE
1. If not already done, connect your assembled pump set to
the tubing port on the front of the breast pump.
2. Make sure that the pump set is connected and positioned
properly.
3. Press the On/Off button
pump emits an audio signal, then release the button.
Æ The breast pump is now in standby mode.
4. Press the Start/Pause button
operation.
Æ The breast pump begins in the stimulation phase.
on the side until the breast
to start the pumping