I didn't get anything before hand. I planned to BF and I didn't want to spend $$ on stuff I may never use.

That said, once the BF'ing was established, I then went and got a Madela mini electric to express with. But that wasn't till Olivia was about 7 weeks old.

Eventually, after all 3 babies, plus sharing the thing around between friends between times, my Madela Mini Electric has been used for about 9 babies and is still going strong, LOL!

Bottles and teats for expressing are a funny one.....each of my 3 babies had a different "preference"...Olivia liked the NUK orthodontic ones, Charlie liked Pigeon Peristaltic and Lexie was content on the bog standard cheapies from Target.........go figure.......


Either way, they were exclusively BF for 6 months........the bottles were for EBM on occasion....Charlie more so for some reason. I purposefully didn't buy any formula.

GOOD LUCK!