PIGEON: My Best Breast Pump

Well, maybe Pigeon is not the best breast pump you can find in the market, but for me Pigeon Manual Breast Pump is the best breast pump I’ve ever possessed. It helped me providing more than enough breast milk for my second baby so I can give him exclusive breastfeeding for six months.

Pigeon is not my first breast pump. As I’ve delivered my first baby girl, my mom bought me a very cheap breast pump. This pump used a bulb connecting with a plastic tube. It did work actually, but with so many limitations, such as:

1. This breast pump will work only if my breast is extremely full.
2. This breast pump can not help me pumping until my breast is empty.
3. I need to do both hand to operate, so it was very complicated and tiring.
4. Causing pain in breast because it worked by pulling the nipples to express the milk.
5. It produced only a little amount of expressed milk, the maximum amount I can provide with this pump was only 100 cc.
6. Very difficult to be cleaned.

The fact was; my pumping effort with this breast pump was not worthy with the expected result.

My First and Cheap Breast Pump

Actually, a friend has already bought a Pigeon Manual Breast Pump and offered me to use hers. But, when I did a trial on this breast pump, I decide not to purchase this pump, because of some reasons;

1. The resulted expressed milk is not as much as I expected.
2. It’s very complicated to assembly and re-assembly.

But that was 5 years ago, in 2007. At that time, my cheap manual breast pump cost only IDR 50.000 (about USD 5.5) and my friend’s Pigeon Manual Breast Pump cost IDR 95.000 (about USD 10.5).

Finally, I could only breastfeed my little Jasmine for 4 monthsL.

In 2010, when I delivered my second baby, Pigeon has already redesigned its breast pump. Although the price is much higher than its previous generation, I decided to purchase one. This new generation of Pigeon manual breast pump cost IDR 309.000 (about USD 34.3). Well, it’s not a cheap thing for us.

But soon I realized something; this expense was truly an investment. Why?

1. Because I don’t have to buy any expensive formula milk for 6 months.
2. More important, I could give my baby a golden standard of infant feeding, which has the best of the best quality of nutrient. The value of breast milk is incomparable with any kind of other infant feeding, right?

Now, why I’m so thankful to this Pigeon Manual Breast Pump? Because to me, this product has many advantages;

1. Very light, very portable.
2. Very easy to dismantle, very easy to be cleaned.
3. Very easy to operate, I can operate this pump with one hand, while another hand is holding my phone cell.
4. The most important thing, it can express until the last drop of milk left in the breast.
5. Moreover, it can provide more breast milk in a short time (comparing with my previous cheap breast pump). I can produce about 200 cc of breast milk in only half hours (with my older pump, only 100 cc in 1 hour!). So, I don’t have to leave my desk too long.

With this pump, the amount of expressed milk I can provide is approximately 500cc/day and it’s enough for to supply my baby’s requirement when I left him for work from 6 AM-4.40 PM. In addition, I can exclusively breastfeed my baby for 6 months and keep continued until he was 20 months.

For me, this breast pump is my favorite gadget of this century ^-^. Thank you Pigeon!

Pigeon Manual Breast Pump; My Favorite Gadget

In the next post, I’ll write about how I manage a daily schedule on expressing breast milk.

See you ^-^