Whittlestone breast expresser
Over the years, working places have seen an increased participation of women who balance their domestic demands with their career quite admirably. Women who become mothers have their own requirements of nature, one of them being the periodic expression of milk from engorged breasts. Breast pumps are a solution that helped such working mothers, as well as moms who are unable to nurse their child directly, due to various reasons. The Whittlestone Breast Expresser has taken the breastpump several notches higher in terms of quality and comfort to the letting activity.
A seven-pound light-weight wonder, the Whittlestone breast expresser is a portable equipment that beats so-called "hospital" grade electric pumps in terms of quality. The pump comes with patented technology that gives better comforting experience to the lactating mother as compared to a traditional pump. The latter is purely mechanical in operation - the pump might just as well have been used for any suction in general. There is nothing unique about its technology that qualifies it to be of exclusive use for breast expression.
Contrast this with the Whittlestone Breast Expresser, which combines vacuum and compression in a dynamic fashion, to create a pulsating effect on the breast tissues. Vacuum thus created does not go up and down in sharp-spike like fashion, but it takes a gentle, sinusoidal form. The tissues thus get a gentle, massaging around the nipple-areola area. At around fifty-two suckle-release cycles per minute, the mother's body gets the feeling as if it is the child nursing at the breast, and its response is a very natural flow of the milk.
The rhythmic massaging is especially useful in circumstances when the breast has swollen and hardened. This hardening is sometimes accompanied by pain, since the skin over the breast tightens; and the mother experiences a lot of discomfort. In such a situation, all of the mother's mind and bodily reaction is towards relieving the pain, and this reduces letting to a trickle, if at all. The infant, too, realizes this situation very subconsciously, and it finds it difficult to latch on to the breast. Traditional pumps, with their mechanical spikes add to the discomfort. It is not usual to see such mothers experiencing a gradual reduction in their milk flow, and moving towards formula feed after being unsuccessful at nursing as well as pumping. The Whittlestone breast expresser has proved to be a boon in such circumstances. Due to its non-spiky vacuum suction, the breasts are not traumatized. Instead, the gentle massage begins to loosen the tissues, and after about ten minutes, some degree of compressibility returns to the breasts. After the pain having eased, milk begins to let normally. Mothers who have gone through such a situation once should take care not to let it recur, and recognize the symptoms as they start showing.
For expression in normal circumstances, the Whittlestone breast expresser works like a charm. The relaxed feeling created due to the pumping action stimulates copious letting, and the body produces more milk. The soft liners on the breast cups snugly hold the tender breast tissue, taking care not to injure them.
The Expresser comes with a range of accessories, all catering to the nitty-gritty of day-to-day lactating. There are two bottle holders and four extra milk collection bottles with covers. The manufacturers also supply cleaning brush and an extra washer in the kit.
A periodic cleansing of all removable, non-electric components of the kit is highly recommended. Ideally, all parts that come in contact with the breast or milk should be rinsed in cool water. This removes any residual milk, without coagulating any protein in them. Further cleaning these same parts in hot, soapy water removes any possibility of any bacterial or viral contamination. Drying them immediately thereafter, completes the cleaning process.
Whittlestone have provided an instructional video, too, for mothers on each and every step of the lactation process - from how-to-express, to how-to-clean. Any mom serious about giving her child wholesome food without any risks, would find it worth her while to enhance her knowledge by viewing the video atleast once.