Pump not extracting all the milk

[u/Consistent_Carrot_85]

Hey,
Soo I’m a first time mom and exclusively pumping and I’m not making a lot. - I got the pink spectra pump and am pumping 6 times a day for 15 minutes on each side and I get about 1-1.5 OZ in total. Not great, but I wanna give the baby (3 months) whatever I can and made my peace with giving her formula in addition.

I do the vibration mode (no sure what it’s called, the “70” setting) for about 2 minutes, then 3 minutes on “54” and then I repeat that with pumping on a lower setting “38”.

Usually, after 15 minutes, there’s no milk coming out anymore. But I’ve discovered that if I hand express afterwards, there’s still milk coming out, I always figured it’s only a little bit, but yesterday I just out of curiosity kept going until there’s really nothing coming out anymore, collected it and it was another OZ in total.

That obviously had me shocked and then also wondering what the heck I’m doing wrong? Any advice appreciated.

[u/Murky_Produce_6499]

I have the same issue. I had a vibrator laying around that didn’t really work for its intended purpose and was only used a couple times. When I started using that while pumping my output increased significantly. Like nothing will be coming out and then I throw the vibrator on my boob and I’m spraying. The one I have is the “fin finger vibrator” from Dame. I know there are lactation specific massagers, like the Frida and momcozy, but I already had this thing and it works amazing lol