I wrote about this in my mornings daily pump comment, but thought I would put it in a separate post ... just incase someone has the same roadblock.

So I pump with the Pumpables liquid flanges (new size arriving next week to try). No matter the pump (Spectra S1 or Pumpables Genie) I seemed to have stopped going beyond expressing just a trace.

My husband, for a few days now, is able to get a little bit of milk with every suckle & after 2-3 suckles he swallows. Says it tastes like regular milk, no more salty taste, and doesn't taste watered down anymore either.

When he suckles he compresses and holds it for a few seconds, then let's go. It's a slow suckle for the most part.

For my last pump session I did just try using the Freemie Liberty II pump with the liquid flanges. However, this time I kept the suction on the very first level, and put the cycle up as high as I could to get the long pause. This seemed to work a little bit. Got a couple very small beads from both breasts. I tried this because he mentioned he holds it against the roof of his mouth for a few seconds before letting go. Neither the Spectra S1 or the Pumpables Genie Advanced seem to have a long enough pause like the Freemie Liberty, without a higher suction which causes both of my nipples to hit the ends of the flange. I would try the BabyBuddha but I can't justify getting another pump any time soon lol

Not sure what else to do ... am using the 19mm liquid flange with single pumping. Am waiting for my order of another 19mm to arrive. Hoping double pumping will give my breasts what they're looking for.

I also ordered a Momcozy lactation massager. Am hoping between the new flange size, double pumping, with a very high cycle on the Freemie and the massager will do the trick to get my breasts to let go of the milk we know is there with the pump ... and not just hold out until hubby suckles.

Thoughts? What things have you done when you've gotten to this point?