Actually, you don’t have to use both hands while using ameda. You can use only one hand, with your elbow supporting one side of the bottle while your fingers holding another bottle. Usually I use one hand to pump while the other hand on the computer mouse, surfing internet.

Using ameda is a little bit tricky. This is because there’s two knob to rotate, one vacuum and one cycle. To imitate the Medela PISA 2 phase expression, initially you need to put one low vacuum and high cycle. Once the let down is achieve, toggle to high vacuum and medium cycle.

I have both medela harmony and ameda. For medela harmony is very difficult to achieve let-down. Once let-down is achieved, yield is high. For ameda, very easy to achieve let down. Usually less than a minute. My whole pumping session for ameda takes about 5 mins while medela harmony takes about 30 mins.

What I did is I latch of baby on one side of the breast while using harmony to empty another side of the breast. For the next feed, baby latch on the other size of the breast while I pump on the side which was previously feed by the baby. This method I can save time and energy. I did this over the weekend.

During the weekdays while at work, I pump 5x a day using ameda, 6am, 11.30am, 5.00pm, 10pm and 2am. Baby direct latch on after she is back from baby sitter place at 7pm.

For you case, instead of pumping 2 hours, how about delay it slightly like every 2.5 hours. This is to let your body knows your baby doesn’t need that much.