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Why TheSagePump exists

I'm Pooja. I exclusively pumped for two babies, one full year each. The reason this app exists is simple. It didn't exist when I needed it.

Round one: I lost my supply at week 1.

I had read eight pregnancy books. None of them prepared me for what feeding actually looks like. I missed three pumps in a row at week one. Eight hours apart. Came home from a pediatric appointment with breasts hard as stone. Mastitis. I switched to formula while my body healed. Two days later when I tried to pump again, I got a few drops in twenty minutes.

I cried in the shower. I cried over formula bottles. I thought I had failed.

Then I rebuilt. From zero.

It took three months. Pumping every two hours, no skipping. Two letdowns every session. Trial and error to figure out my flange size (I was using 24 mm, turns out I was 19 on one side, 21 on the other). I tried methi, moringa, sunflower lecithin, cabbage, every cure the internet suggested. What actually worked: consistency, the right flange, hydration, and the courage of strangers on Reddit telling me their stories at 2 AM.

By the end of year one, I had pumped exclusively for twelve months and built up an extra four-ounce stash a day.

Round two: smooth.

By the time my second baby arrived, I knew my flange size before day one. I had the right pump for me (Pumpables Genie Advanced, plus a Eufy wearable for travel). I tracked my data. I knew my Magic Number. I pumped for another full year with almost no clogs, no mastitis, no panic.

Why this app.

I knew the gap. I'd lived inside it for two years across two babies. I knew exactly what EP moms needed and what every existing app got wrong. So I designed it. Every feature, every flow, every screen. My husband, a software engineer, agreed to code it. We built TheSagePump in the nights after the kids went to sleep. I led product, features, and testing. He led engineering. Together we shipped what should have always existed.

Because past me deserved this. And so do you.

— Pooja