Mom Cozy or Willow?



                        

 The world of wearable breast pumps is way more intense than I ever knew. People are very invested in their pump and it's kind of culty if I am being honest. Willow people think theres no option but the Willow, Elvie people only talk crap about the Willow, and Mom Cozy people just want to save a buck. (Hey don't be offended that was me too)

So price wise the Mom Cozy is by far the most affordable. One pump is about $75 on Amazon so a set would run you about $150. This is for the S12, newer pump. The Willow and the Elvie both run between 400-500 depending on the promotions going on at the time. 

Before this last week I would have told you hands down to get the Mom Cozy and not to even think about the other two. The Mom Cozy worked for me from October until now with very minimal issues. Now I will say this should not be your all the time pump. I have an at home pump that I use for fully emptying. I bought the Mom Cozy just for on the go ease. I would get about half of what I got in my home pump on my Mom Cozy, but it was so easy and so affordable. 

Flash forward to now. My Mom Cozy has completely crashed on me. The motor no longer works right, is extremely hot, and is offering no suction. So as someone who is planning to continue to breastfeed hopefully until my little one is a year old, I splurged and bought a Willow. 

I had no idea what I was missing out on. The Willow is AMAZING. As I said before, the Mom Cozy is great for the price but the Willow is great overall. I am getting about twice as much milk with the Willow as I am with the Mom Cozy. 

Some perks about the Willow:

-very quiet

-you can pump into bags or into a reusable container. The bags are leakproof and I have tested this. 

-you can easily keep track of how much you are pumping through the app. Now I have found that this overestimated how much milk I am actually pumping but not by a lot, about a half an ounce total throughout a whole day. 

-it stays charged much longer than the Mom Cozy

Some not so great things about the Willow:

-pretty large for a wearable pump

-the price. I really wish this were a less expensive pump that was more available to others

-the parts are also expensive. Bags, extra flex tubes, reusable pieces. 

So all in all, I wish I would have just bought the Willow from the start. It definitely has a learning curve but it is so worth the money and the hype. If you have the ability, get the Willow. 

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