Information on the Baby Buddha pump
April 2023
Several of my clients have spoken so highly of the Baby Buddha pump that I have decided to collate some information on it. Not only does it seem to work very well for the majority of women, but it’s also very reasonably priced.
The Baby Buddha pump comes with motor, tubing, 24mm flanges (and cushions which make it more like 21-22mm), duck bills and collection bottles.
It also comes with a lanyard to wear so if you’re at home you can just wear it around your neck. If you want to use it out and about, you will need to buy freemie cups and then the tubing will just slot into the cups directly:
https://thebreastfeedingmama.com/babybuddha-freemie-hack/
The Elvie versus the Baby Buddha with freemie cups:
The freemie cups are pumping collection cups that go in your bra but are still attached to an additional pump motor, versus the Elvie where it’s an all in one system. The benefit of the Baby Buddha is you get a much better pump but the negative is that its not as ‘discreet’ as an Elvie. However, the Elvie is very bulky and not actually discreet in reality, and many women find the Elvie doesn’t work for them, or doesn’t work very well.
Baby Buddha sell a 21mm flange but they can take some time to arrive. Alternatively, Libra Health (now Libra Baby) sells 20mm ones that are compatible; you just have to attach a plastic part from the Baby Buddha tubing to the tubing they provide in order to make it fit to the motor: https://www.librababy.co.uk/collections/breastshields-and-flanges/products/spectra-premium-breast-shield-wide-neck-20-32mm
Baby Buddha EasyFit Flanges sets (21mm-32mm) here:
https://www.librababy.co.uk/products/babybuddha-easyfit-flange-kit-21-32mm
and smaller inserts (10mm to 19mm) for Baby Buddha here:
Baby Buddha have published lots of component hacks:
https://babybuddhaproducts.com/pages/component-hacks
Many thanks to Sasha Sabapathy for putting together the information above.
Feedback about the Baby Buddha from Farah A:
The Baby Buddha pump was a gamechanger with my third baby. I triple fed all 3 babies round the clock 8 times a day and those first weeks seemed to be an endless cycle of triple feeding, a nappy change and time to start again. I had the Medela Symphony for the first two, which worked great but I was tied to the pump unable to do anything.
At the recommendation of someone in the NWL Breastfeeding group, I took a punt on the Baby Buddha and was so pleased that I did. It's hospital grade, but so lightweight and tiny at the same time. It can be worn around the neck whilst going about with pretty much anything else! I could easily pump and bottle feed A at the same time, but actually I loved the freedom it gave me the most. In those early days, my husband used to take A in a baby sling whilst I put my other children to bed, or prepared dinner so I never felt tied to a pump which was so helpful psychologically. I also used to carry the pump in the changing bag, which meant I could be out and about even when I was pumping round the clock. I have pumped everywhere with this pump - at restaurants, whilst driving, at a friend's 40th birthday party, on an airplane, on a train, at a conference - you name it!