There are a few minimal bodily controls on the Willow itself: an influence button, a mode button, and a plus and minus button to alter the suction stage. You at all times flip the pump on manually to start out a session, however you will want the Willow Go app useful to see see what mode or stage you are utilizing (you may sense a distinction in these, and the Willow at all times begins on the bottom stage) and the way lengthy you’ve got been pumping.
The Willow Go has two pumping modes: a stimulation mode and an expression mode. Each have a couple of ranges of suction and rhythm to select from within the app. The Willow Go will begin out in stimulation mode for 2 minutes earlier than switching to expression, to attempt to replicate how a child begins feeding and activate let down. You may manually change modes on the highest of the Willow and inside the app, and alter across the depth, too, to seek out the perfect setting. Either side is managed individually, and also you’ll see a timer within the app to point out your general pumping time for every pump (however not how lengthy you spent in every mode). It guarantees hospital-grade suction just like the traditional Medela Pump in Style Advanced, and I pumped the identical variety of ounces that I might with my Spectra S1.
I attempted the Willow Go together with each a sports activities nursing bra and one in all Willow’s personal pumping bras. Each have full protection and a hook to permit the bra to return all the best way down after which safe round each the pump and breast, which is what it’s best to search for in any bra you employ with a wearable pump. It match effectively in each bras and was comfy sufficient to put on, nevertheless it actually wasn’t discreet.
Elements Occasion
Either side of the Willow Go has six components: a container bowl, a duckbill valve, a diaphragm, a flange, a container again, and the pump itself that sits in the course of all these components. Whole with two pumps, that’s 12 items for the pump. The Willow additionally comes with two USB-An influence cords to cost every pump, however no energy adapter.
All these components, plus stuffing it into your bra, make it laborious to get a visible of how a lot you’re pumping. When you’re making an attempt to test your progress or work out whether or not you’ve wrung each ounce of liquid out of your physique, it’s a must to do some head angling to see if something continues to be popping out of the duckbill valve. It’s really helpful to pump for round quarter-hour, however it’s best to be capable to work out after a couple of makes use of how lengthy a pump session your physique wants.
Whilst you don’t wash the middle pump, you do wash the opposite 10 components. That’s no small quantity, however the Spectra S1 has an identical variety of washable components. However I choose washing the Willow Go’s items. They’re bigger, making them simpler to deal with and simpler to air or hand dry versus among the smaller breast pump components that I’m continuously afraid I’ll drop down the sink drain. I particularly love that the container bowl pops all the best way off for me to wash, relatively than scrubbing yet one more child bottle. These components are all dishwasher protected, too.
