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When Baby Comes Home


  • Pregnant and preparing to breastfeed: a guide to the Possums resources
  • Choosing the breast milk pump that is right for you
  • Be ready for discombobulating body changes and a busy mind
  • How to hand express your colostrum or milk
  • Giving birth: what can I do to be ready? Dr Sarah Buckley, Karen McClay (Calmbirth) 2020 Baby May 2021
  • Support for breastfeeding, baby sleep and attachment. Karen McClay Australia, The Calmbirth Conversation 2021
  • 'Intuitive eating' in the perinatal period
  • Things parents need (or don't need) to buy when they are expecting or have a baby. Dr Pamela Douglas May 2022
  • Oh, baby. How much stuff do babies need? Radio National Australia, The Pineapple Project September 2022
  • About The Discontented Little Baby Book - hardcopy, audiobook, translations

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Choosing the breast milk pump that is right for you

Dr Pamela Douglas11th of Sep 202510th of Dec 2025

Emma McCabe (IBCLC) describes the pros and cons of the six kinds of pumps (with some discussion of various brands) which are currently available to breastfeeding women.

Emma is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant at Ora Feeding in Brooklyn, New York City USA. She is Dr Pam’s daughter.

The pumps discussed in this video are

  1. Hospital grade - (1:24)

  2. High grade single user - (4:50)

  3. Wearable - (8:34)

  4. Hybrid single user/wearable - (14:19)

  5. Manual - (18:38)

  6. Milk collectors - (20:20).

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Frequency and durations of pumping your breastmilk + what’s useful to know about pumping bras

How to protect your nipple and breasts from injury during pumping: video

Human milk pumps are an amazing technological advance, but there are downsides to be aware of

Pumping your breastmilk when baby is in NICU + human milk banks and donors

About storing your expressed breastmilk, cleaning your pump, and what bottles to use

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Possums acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands upon which The Possums Programs have been created, the Yuggera and Turrbal Peoples. We acknowledge that First Nations have breastfed, slept with, and lovingly raised their children on Australian lands for at least 65,000 years, to become the oldest continuous living culture on Earth. Possums stands with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.