Becky, My experience with Medela pumps is the same as yours. I can't understand what Medela is talking about when they say the Lactina and Classic are equal. I am a private practice LC and we have a fairly large rental station. We carry both Classics and Lactinas. Any mother that is separated from her baby (NICU, etc.) always gets a Classic from us, as well as those mothers who I am working with that have a breastfeeding problem. For the *back to work moms* we usually rent a Lactina, since it is so much more portable. Yaffa ********************** Yaffa Stark, MA, IBCLC Los Angeles, CA [log in to unmask] ****************************