Playtex drops-ins and daycare -- confused!

[neeter]

I've been reading about the Playtex drop-ins system and it sounds great. I really want it to work, but I purchased a premium gift set and I'm getting really confused.

I work outside the home, and generally will be pumping for my son's milk that I will send to daycare the next day. What's the best strategy for this?

If I pump directly into the liner, then I will be using the liner ring and breast pump adapter (I have an Ameda). I screw the storage cap onto the liner ring to seal everything. Then I store that whole thing in the fridge. And I send it just like that to daycare?

Does that mean that I need to get *alot* more of these one-step kits, because the one I have only contained one liner ring (at $10 each, that's not cheap, especially since I need to pump 3 bottles, and 3 bottles will be at daycare on that day).

Or is there a better way to do this? Pump into a regular bottle, and then transfer directly to a liner? But then how do I give the daycare a liner (unless I assemble everything, including the nurser) -- then I'll be buying alot more nursers.

Yikes, can you tell I'm confused? I hope this all makes sense, and someone can help. Or at least tell me your daycare strategy.

(Oh and any excess will go into the Lansinoh bags). Help!

Thanks!!

[juliasmom05]

I'm not sure this is the best way, as I didn't know about pumping into the liners at the time, but this is what I did. I just pumped into regular bottles or lanisoh bags and then brought the playtex nursers already assembled. I think we ended up with 6-8 nursers, but you probably just need enough for one day. For us, this seemed to work out fine.

Good luck

Marci

[Clarity]

I had a Pump Mate set that came with adaptors, liners and seals that I used when I was pumping and freezing. The liners fit perfectly into the Platex drop-ins. However, when I started pumping for the next day, I pumped into bottles and then poured the bm into the drop-ins.

[rgors]

The OneStep kit has *4* liner rings. The piece that it has one of, is the adapter ring.

I would pump into whatever you want, but then I would prepare all of the bottles individually to go to daycare with nipples and dome lids, etc. I wouldn't want to chance someone mishandling and spilling my EBM if they are not familiar with the playtex system.

[suz]

My daycare is kind of strict. They require that the bottles be assembled already, so I send 3 - 4 assembled nursers per day for my DD. Your daycare may be more accomadating than mine.

I have the one step kit but find that pumping into the regular medela bottles works better for me. I pump into the bottles and then just transfer them into the liners when I am ready to assemble the bottles.

Yes, you would have to get at least two kits if you want at least a pair of adapters. I find it strange that the kit only includes one adapter.

[denna]

This is what I would do. Pump into a bottle or Lasinoh bag and then send the bottles already filled/ made to daycare w/ your DC.

[neeter]

Hi there -- Thanks so much! This is really really helpful...I'm getting it now (especially assembling everything for daycare). This way I don't need all the liner rings (I also realized that my breast storage kit inside the premium gift set only had one liner ring, but that the one step system has 4 -- thank you).

Now, my DS doesn't seem to like the nipple...that's another story -- hopefully he will like it!

Thanks again!

[pb&j]

You don't have to send the liner ring to daycare. I used the liner ring and nipple ring w/sealing disk to transport liners home. I then put *just* the liner into the nurser bottle w/nipple ring/nipple/dome on top to go to school. I had just enough nursers to send to school plus 1 or 2 extra.


-Ry,
mom to Max, age 1.5
and my girl in heaven

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