Hi friends,
I recently got back to pumping and learned that my first months of pumping was with cups WAY too small..! I’m a small B-cup so I’ve been using the medium Noogleberry cups until I figured I would get a better shape from using large cups. My breasts have a flat round shape so even if they are small, they are still wide if that makes sense. I came over a very cheap deal on the large kangzhu cups and trying them the first time I was blown away by the difference! Not only is the shape of swelling better and rounder but my god, the way they fit!!! They are contoured with a silicone ring around the edges which creates a great seal and they fit my chest so good I can actually walk around with them on and do stuff. This is revolution in my NBE journey and made my life so much easier, I’m very motivated and just wanted to share that " alt="
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Now my question is about pressure, I don’t have a pump that shows the actual pressure so I have to go by feeling. I have very stretchy skin and I’m afraid I might be hurting breast tissue without noticing. I only got the red dots once on the side under my armpit and I didn’t feel any discomfort when causing that. I’ve read some post about pressure being too high if skin turns purple but I don’t think that applies to everyone, I’m so pale my skin tone changes immediately from any pressure. My go to pressure right now is to have a pressure that’s high but when knocking on the domes the breast still jiggles. I wear them while studying from home so I can’t apply the 7:2 method, that would take too much attention from studying, but I take a 5 minute break every 30 minutes or so and I wear them 2-4 hours Monday-Friday, on weekends I don’t pump at all. I am of course using oil when pumping, coconut at the moment while waiting for my aloe Vera to arrive.
Should I regulate pressure depending on the time pumping? For example if I only have 30 minutes I go high pressure, and if I can sit a couple of hours I apply a lower pressure? Is there ever a benefit from pumping so hard the breast is not able to jiggle at all inside domes? If you do it very short intervals for example.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this!