Breast Pump

Ameda One-hand Breastpump

The market today is flooded with a mind-boggling variety of breastpumps. Companies vie with each other to bring out the latest product, and make use of most advanced technologies that their research and development labs can churn out. This abundance of choice could be quite confusing for a mom, especially a first-time mom.

Why do mothers go in for breastpumps in the first place? After all, previous generations of mothers too have reared children, without making use of these fancy contraptions, haven't they?

The reason is not too hard to seek. Today's mom is no longer confined to the four walls of her house after returning from the hospital where the child was delivered. In a majority of cases, she has to get back to her work or pursue her career, and that too, in double-quick time. While she is away, she has to ensure that her little bundle of joy receives the food that nature has bountifully made provision for - through her breasts. So, the mother does the next best thing to being with the child all the time: she expresses milk in advance, stores it in a refridgerator, and instructs the person taking care of the child to feed the baby on time. Now, in order to pump the milk efficiently, breastpumps are required.

More often than not, the mother need not hanker after a fancy breastpump, with all the bells and whistles that go along with it. All that she would like to have is a simple, manually operated device that performs the bare function of expressing milk at her own convenient pace. This is where the Ameda One-Hand Breastpump enters the picture.

The Ameda One-hand breastpump is manually operated. So, the best part is that there are no electrical wires coming to your body, and there isn't any need for batteries to run the machine. The mother can express on one breast at a time, or perform the expression on both the breasts simultaneously. The handle assembly can be conveniently placed on the table, and the tubings from the assembly to the pump adjusted appropriately. By regulating the frequency with which pressure is applied to the assembly's squeeze, suction and cycling strength can be controlled to the desired comfort level.

An important feature of the Ameda One Hand Breastpump is an built-in splash guard protector that directs milk flow away from the breast and also away from the piston.

The One-hand breastpump comes in two models: One with flexishields, and the other without. Flexishields are special inserts that cup the region around the areola, and while the suction takes place, these shields wield their magic by stimulating the areola tissue in exactly the same way that emulates the suckling action of the child. This results in the mother's body responding favorably by letting down faster, and producing more milk.

Ameda's One-hand breastpump is an economical alternative to its more fancy colleagues in the breastpump community. Despite its low cost, it has all the features that makes the life of a breastfeeding mom easier.