| View Larger Image | Medela Tender Care HydroGel Pads - 4 pk. | Health and Beautyby Medela Inc.
| List Price: | $12.39 | |
| | Sales Rank: | 20,824th |
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FEATURES | - Cools on contact for instant relief
- Contoured shape for comfortable fit
- Reusable for up to 24 hours
- Sterile & ready-to-use
- Soothing on their own, or use with Tender Care Lanolin for extra comfort and relief
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Advanced nipple therapy for moms with severe sore or cracked nipples. Each pad provides up to 24 hours of relief. This listing is for one retail package that contains 4 individually wrapped pads. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 6 reviews)
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Good Pad - 4.5 stars by AmShopper (So. Cal, USA)  4 Stars
October 12, 2009
Nice and large so they stay in place. They do a good job. They don't shrink after multiple uses. I definitely prefer to use pads over lanolin.
As a comparison, the hospital gave me a pack of Ameda Comfortgel Breast Pads. The Ameda were okay, but they are smaller (i.e. harder to keep in place) and don't last long if you wash/rinse them in water (i.e. you really have to try to keep them clean b/c you can't rinse them). They also seem to shrink as they get a few days old (maybe they start to dry out, don't know).
Bottom line, if price were the same b/t the two products, I would go with the Medela.
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They work pretty well, but there are better ones out there by M. Myers (Norman, OK)  3 Stars
July 03, 2009
These gel pads work pretty well. My nipples were really raw and sore and these really helped with the pain when I nursed my baby. But you can only wear each pair for 24 hours. So the package only lasts you two days. Soothies, on the other hand, are reusable for up to 3 weeks and are comparable in cost. I'd recommend those instead.
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Sweet Relief! by Kim (Ohio)  5 Stars
May 30, 2009
When I first started nursing in the hospital my nipples got torn up. A few days after we got home from the hospital I started searching for something to give my painful/sore nipples some relief. These pads are AMAZING! Not only did they provide me with much needed relief, but I truely believe they helped my nipples heal faster. They are a bit pricey but I cut mine in half & they lasted even longer! I will be sure to buy these as a shower gift from now on (as long as she plans on BF)!
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Great short-term solution by Emily M. Verbeke (Albion, MI USA) 4 Stars
April 01, 2009
These are a great short-term solution for tenderness caused by nursing or pumping. These are not ones that you can wear for a week like you might get from a health card provider but they feel great when you first put them on. They really helped minimize my discomfort. I would recommend these to other nursing or pumping mothers.
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If you have cracked nipples or fissures you need these. Now. by D. Mancino (CA United States) 5 Stars
November 16, 2008
Why is breastfeeding such a mystery? You'd think we'd have figured this stuff out by now. I have a marathon nurser with my second baby. She is a round-the-clock boob-a-holic and my nipples became raw like hamburger. I got loads of bad advice. Everything from limiting nursing (bad advice for my milk supply and baby's weight) to diagnosis with thrush (it wasn't thrush). I had fissures in my nipples. I know. It sounds bad because it is bad. These are deep cracks and a kind of scabbing over them. When the scabs got dried out between feedings, the next time the baby would latch on, she would painfully rip them off. It was eye-watering. I found these gel-pads at Target and when I applied Lansinoh and then these pads over it and kept them in place between feedings, the cracks and fissures began to heal. Thank goodness because I was really starting to question whether I could breastfeed while in that much pain. So if you have scabs and major pain, try these with the Lansinoh for a day or two. I am sure things will improve. Hang in there, mom.
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| Medela Tender Care Lanolin
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Introducing Tender Care, Medela's new line of advanced nipple therapy products. Tender Care Lanolin is a modified lanolin with beta-glucan, it is safe for baby but overcomes moms challenge with lanolin in an easier to apply formula with soothing relief for dry, cracked nipples.
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