Medela Breastpumping Starter Kit
For first-time mothers, the new experience of having to feed her newborn infant at her breast can be too overwhelming sometimes. Then again, there are situations where the baby is premature, or has some sickness, because of which it cannot breastfed immediately, but the doctors assure that it will do so in due course of time. A starter kit, that contains all the bare essentials for the mother to get going about her breastfeeding job, is an ideal must-have. Medela's Breastpumping starter kit fills in this demand quite admirably.
Medela's design team kept a typical, perhaps stay-at-home, breastfeeding mother before their eyes when they worked out the components of the kit. This category of the mother is always around her kid, available to nurse her infant on demand. Plus, they also seem to have focussed on the mother who might be undergoing this experience for the first time. This is evident in the contents of the kit. The most important component of the kit is the breastpump, ofcourse - a Little Hearts Breastpump, which can be operated manually. There are two collection containers that have the capacity to hold up to 5 oz. of milk. The kit also comes with six CSF Bags which are disposable, and again can be used for collection. First-time mothers usually face the problem of sore nipples. To alleviate this condition, the kit has the Medela trade-marked PureLan 100 lanolin, which is quite effective. Mothers can also make use of the disposable bra pads that are part of the kitty, too. Finally, a tiny treasure trove, containing tips and hints on breastfeeding, has been thoughtfully tucked in.
The Kit's Breastpump is quite ideal for collecting breastmilk when the mother is going to be away from her
child for a period of time longer than its next hunger pang. It takes about half-an-hour to forty-five
minutes for the mother to express milk from both her breasts using the manual pump. The expressed milk
can be stored in the container, which can be kept in the freezer section of the refrigerator. Some times,
the milk remains unused for longer periods of time, which should not be a cause for worry really, since the
freezer can preserve the milk for upto six months without any problem. The breastpump is also useful
when the breasts become too full with milk, to the extent of being engorged. In such a situation, it is not
possible for the child to latch on to the nipple; as it instinctively recognizes that there is an abnormality.
While manually pumping the breasts, the area of tissues around the nipple and areola get gently
massaged, and a gradual disengorgement begins taking place.
The Collect, Store and Freeze Bags, CSF Bags for short, come presterilized at Medela's factory floor itself. They can be attached directly to the pump's breastshield; which means that the expressed milk gets collected straight in the bag. Whenever it is time to empty the bag, all that one has to do is to tear open the built-in pouring spot. These bags are quite handy when the mother feels the need to express milk from breasts that have become full, while she is away from the child.
The Medela Breastpumping Starter Kit is rightly meant for starters. For mothers who are going to be away from their child for longer periods of time, such as working moms, will obviously have to go in for more heavy-duty equipment. Ditto is the case for mothers who need to express frequently, perhaps more than once a day; which implies quicker operations. But for the mother looking for that occasional pumping, the Kit is the perfect fit!