Milk Bands

Hmmph. I subscribe to this blog and I'm very much XX;I'm not even XXY. I'm full blown XX.

However, I still find this product useless.

I'm a nursing mother and I don't know why anyone would use these. It's been my experience that you know which boob to use...it's the one that feels like it will explode or is throbbing like a neon sign in the Nevada desert. My mother did mention to me the safety pin thing, but again, I never had trouble knowing which boob to offer. It seems to me that if you need to know all this info: last feeding, duration, wet/dirty diapers, you keep a d*mned notebook...I know I did; not some silly bands. I can just see trying to count my rubber bracelets in the Ped's office instead of providing real written info.

I wonder if XY is really overrepresented in your blog readership....I suppose that is based on the evidence that women are allergic to medicine, technology, and the internet?

I'll stick my neck out and vote in favor of the Milk Bands. If such a low-tech and inexpensive item can actually help women breastfeed their babies more successfully (as the testimonials suggest), then they should give these out with hospital bracelets on Labor & Delivery.

The pegs, though, seem problematic. I'd imagine they'd get lost, only to be discovered later in the baby's lungs or something.

sweet jumping jehosaphat! women DO read our site. I thought the closest we'd get was an XXY like you said Rachel. The only thing better than knowing women actually check out our blog, is the fact that you actually left comments to help us out.

Thanks, this settles a little bet 'round the water-cooler here @ Medgadgets

Sure you have XX readers! I still wonder what the percentage might be - I've got a feeling we're a lot more than you'd expect...

I've never nursed, but from what I've heard from mothers in my family, these bands wouldn't be all that useful: journals aren't a hassle, plus mothers -especially first-timers- tend to really want to take a notebook to the ped with more info than the bands would ever help you keep track of... :)

Another XX'er here. I breastfed both my daughters and never had such a memory problem. But a product like this might have a market -- it can't hurt, if it helps promote breast feeding.

Of course, being able to conveniently track the frequency of nursing might habe been helpful with both of my girls -- who, if they had their say about it, would have suckled continuously. " Shortly after this preference became evident, I began occasionally referring to my oldest girl as my "10-pound tassel." ;o)

I am all for promoting breastfeeding, I nursed all mine with 'on-demand nursing' well into toddlerhood and all my grandbabies have been nursed by their mothers. "we" all thought this product was riduculous. If you can't tell which breast has more milk in it - you need more than this bracelet, not trying to be abrasive, but seriously!

The whole idea of nursing is being aware of the needs of the baby, not clock watching and no one needs to journal how many diapers, etc unless you are getting NONE. Listen to your body and the baby, don't use pacifers, extra water and don't start solid food until past 6 months.

The testimonies... I have read 'reviews' of other products, books, etc. that I know were not that great and recognized friends write a lot of those positive product reviews.

Of course the latest gen needs a gadget for practiaclly everything....
surprised it's not an electronic bracelet with some lights that flash on the ceiling (BTW - I am a Network Technician so i embrace it where it's needed)