Avent Isis Breast Pumps
In 1997, Avent revolutionized the baby-and-mother-care industry when it launched the ISIS Breast Pump. With an efficiency level that matches, feature by feature, the hospital-grade electric pump; the ISIS has become a benchmark against which its peers on the marketshelves get compared with. The company has a beautiful integration policy that compels its engineers to design products that connect to the ISIS pump. Thus, you have the ISIS pump's expressed milk collected directly into a VIA disposable, or a Natural Feeding Bottle, or even a sipping, Magic Cup. In one stroke of simple design decision, thus, the need to transfer the pump's collection from one container to another is totally eliminated.
The ISIS breastpump has at least two patented technologies incorporated into it, namely the Let Down Massage Cushion, and a Silicone Diaphragm, that allows it to function without any batteries or electricity, with the same efficiency as an electric-driven version. The Massage Cushion has "petal" like structures embedded into it, which massage the breast gently when the pumping is in progress. The silicone diaphragm creates a vacuum effect, and the whole device mimics the suckle-relax-release cycle that the infant unknowingly applies at the breast.
The compression of the handle causes the soft petal massagers to flex, causing a natural let-down. When the handle is relaxed, the massagers around the areola work in tandem with the silicone diaphragm to draw milk gently and consistently. The mother aids the drawing process through occasional compressions. This breakthrough of an invention actually came about by observing the child's own natural tendency of combining its jaw, the cheeks and the tongue to latch onto the nipple to create the suckling pressure.
The diaphragm acts as a vacuumed enclosure around the cup's brim, drawing the milk into the container so as to fill in the vacuum - since nature abhors vacuum. The tandem motion becomes rhythmic, and the breast tissues let down quite smoothly.
Since Avent integrates all its storage products around the ISIS, so whether it is a reusable bottle, a VIA disposable, or a cup, it is quite easy to lock any of these storage containers to the pump to collect the expressed milk.
Being totally mechanical, the entire pump can be easily disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled again. Cleaning may be carried out by sterilizing the individual components in boiled water for about ten minutes. Avent has a special-purpose Microwave Steam Sterilizer that can do quite a good job of sterilization, and ensure that the pump is germ-free.
ISIS breastpump is especially useful for first-time moms who are learning how to breastfeed. Mothers who find their breasts getting engorged quite frequently, too benefit from this pump. An engorged breast can be quite painful, as the entire area, from the nipple extending backwards, becomes hard due to the accumulation of milk in the tissues. The skin tightens over the breast, and the child finds it difficult to latch in such a situation. The gentle massage of the petals in the Cushion of the ISIS for a few moments begins to relax the tissues. After some time, the breasts return to a compressible state, when natural flow becomes easier.
It is the ease and convenience of use that has made ISIS a very popular choice of pump for moms. Nothing can replace Mother Nature's own mechanisms of doing things - though the ISIS comes quite close.