Purely Yours Electric Breastpump
There are as many uniquely varied situations as there are breastfeeding mothers. Some mothers balance their demands of a full-time profession with rearing their newborn infant; others decide to stay at home and look after their child till it is totally weaned away from breastfeeding. Yet others find themselves in a hospital, trying to feed their child through bottles containing milk expressed using hospital-grade breastpumps, as the latter is either too weak to suckle, or the mother has some condition with her breasts, such as flat or inverted nipples or engorgement.
Every such mother that finds herself in such situations where direct breastfeeding is just not possible, has her own set of demands and expectations from a breastpump. Ameda, a company in the market for fifty years now, and concentrating on mother-and-child health care issues, has recognised this aspect. In their quest to keep responding to their customer - the mother's - demands, they have come out with a fully-automatic breastpump.
Unlike the more fancy models of its family - such as the Backpack and the Carry All versions - the Purely Yours Electric Breastpump is a no-frills pump, and focuses firmly on the basic aspects of the work it has been designed to do; and that is pumping of milk from the mother's breast.
Like its brethren models, this particular model has all the facilities and features that make it top class. For instance, the hightech, patented HygieniKit that comprises of a silicone diaphragm is standard part of the electric breastpump's machinery. Thanks to this diaphragm, transmission of life-threatening bacteria and viruses, such as HIV and Hepatitis B & C, is blocked. This feature is especially useful when the pumps are rented (it does not stop transmission of disease from mother to baby, but from user to user).
Another plus with the Purely Yours Electric Breastpump is the eight levels of suction settings and four cycle speeds that it offers the mother. Suction at the breast stimulates the milk- carrying ducts to express milk, while the cycle speeds determine the number of times suction is applied and released in a minute. The combination of these two aspects faithfully mimics the suckling action that the child naturally performs, once it is latched on to the breast. Since every mother has her own comfort level where she can express milk at the optimum, she is free to experiment with both the suction setting and the cycle speed till she is adequately at ease.
The mother also has another option that she can make use of, and that is the double pumping facility. She has the freedom to pump milk on one breast at a time, or both the breasts simultaneously. Doing so speeds up the time taken in expression; and actually causes the body to produce more milk.
The Purely Yours Electric Breastpump comes with an AC power adapter, and can also function with AA batteries (it requires six of them). The company also sells a "Cool 'N Carry Tote" separately, that contains three cooling elements and six 4 oz bottles.
Thus, with this bare-bones equipment, a mother can get the best that the world has to offer in terms of breastmilk pumping. What more could she ask for?