Avent Breast Pump (Avent Isis Breast Pump)

Member Name: Lisa.Marie

Product:	Avent Isis Breast Pump
Date:	16/08/07 (420 review reads)
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Advantages: easy to use and clean, partner able to feed baby, cheap

Disadvantages: none

INTRODUCTION

I was planning on breast feeding baby before he was born, although I never kept to it with my youngest child when he was born. I was determined to keep to it this time around. Although the only downside to that was my partner was unable to feed baby, so getting a breast pump was going to take away the downside and my partner is able to feed baby. Let me tell you more about the pump.

ABOUT THE PUMP

The avent breast pump is a manual pump that helps to express milk for bottle feeding, there is no discomfort in using the pump although if you do have tender breast then I wouldn’t advise using it. And although the pump is easy to use and is very quiet when using it, I wouldn’t consider to use it in public.

The pump comes in many pieces and can look a little complicated, but it is easy to set and use. The pump allows you to express breast milk, so that you can have a break of baby being latched on to you all the time, and also to give the partner or family/friends to feed baby too, it is also handy for making up bottles for going out on journeys too.

The pump is easy to use and isn’t to strong on your breast, you can control how strong you want the suction by just pressing the handle of the pump, pressing the handle all the way down will create a stronger suction then just pressing it down a little. You don’t need to press the handle all the way down if you have a good supply of milk as a little suction will drain away your breast milk with ease.

Cleaning the pump is easy too although the valve is little and could be lost if using a dishwasher to clean the pump. You can wash the pump in warm soapy water and then over to the steriliser once the pump as been rinsed off in cold water.

The pump works as a sucking machine basically, it works as though your baby is feeding from you. It creates a suction technique which will drain your breast milk into a bottle which will be attached to your pump. Once you have finished pumping, unattached the bottle from the pump, then add the teat to the bottle and there you have a bottle of breast milk for storage for your baby.

WHAT DOES THE PUMP CONSIST OF

You will get the following

2 5oz avent bottles
A manual breast pump
Instructions on how to use the pump ( which are easy to follow )
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

I bought mine from boots £25. You can also buy it from places like
Woolworths £27
Or online at – www.babycity.co.uk £25

FINAL THOUGHTS

I wouldn’t be without it now its very handy to have, especially to know my partner can feed baby even though I am breast feeding, thanks to the pump. It doesn’t normally take long to express milk depending on your supply. Sometimes its faster to latch your baby on you especially if you haven’t made a express feed in advance, also when/if your baby is very hungry and you don’t really have time to warm up the bottle. But other than that then I would consider getting one, they are not that expensive!!

Thanks for reading and I hope I have covered everything!

Summary: breast pumps