medela PISA battery pack

[jennlin]

my pump came with a plug in battery pack that takes 8 AA batteries. i'm going to be traveling for work soon without my baby and may need to use the battery pack from time to time... i'm wondering how many pump sessions i might be able to get out of the batteries? i will be gone for 4 nights.

[babycaps]

I always made sure to travel with at least 2 sets of batteries for every 4 days. I think just to be overly cautious. But I also had reusable/rechargeable batteries to use and they don't last a long.
Sorry i'm not much help. I never ran out of batteries but never had to pump more than 2-3x w/o plugging in.

[jennlin]

thanks. i don't imagine needing to use the battery pack more than once a day..i'm just afraid that it's only good for ONE pumping session and i would need a billion batteries. rechargeable are a good idea since i can charge them in my hotel room.

[Deleted]

Make sure you try it out first. My battery pack sucked (well, not sucking well was the problem) no matter what batteries I tried. I had a friend who had this problem too. I used a car adapter and found outlets, but I know this isn't always an option.

I hope yours works okay!