Many lactating Mums find it convenient and most times necessary, to use electronic and/or manual breast pumps to express (or extract) and store their breast milk. This is usually the case once mothers return to work, are travelling, or are separated from their nursing baby.
Mothers are usually delighted to learn that breast pumps can be used to supplement breast feeding and that some of these Avent breast pumps are designed to mimic the suckling of a nursing baby.
Avent Electric Breast Pumps can also serve to:
• maintain or increase a mother’s milk supply
• feed multiple nursing babies
• relieve plugged milk ducts and engorged breasts
• pull out inverted or flat nipples to enable the nursing baby latch-on to the mum’s breast more easily

Avent Breast Pump Types
The 3 main types of Avent Breast Pumps are manual pumps, battery operated pumps and electric breast pumps.

It is quite important that mothers who use powered a breast pump (either battery breast pump or electric breast pump) are prepared for emergency situations when batteries or electricity may not be readily available. Having alternative means for expressing breast milk and a fall-back method, such as Avent Isis manual breast pump, can help a Mum maintain her breast pumping schedule during such emergency.

Expressing Breast Milk

Three different pumping types are possible with Avent breastpump:

Single (Uno) Pumping: This expresses milk from one breast at a time. Most battery-powered and manual Avent breast pumps are single pumps

Double Breast Pumping: can be used to extract milk from both breasts simultaneously. This dual suction action can significantly reduce the time it takes to empty the mothers breast. Some Avent electric breast pumps are duo pumping types.

Double alternating Breast Pumping: Just like in double, double-alternative can express milk from both breasts at the same time. Unlike the double, the alternating releases suction from one breast before applying suction to the other breast. An Avent electric breast pump would typically utilise double –alternating breast pumping.

Things to consider in choosing the Avent Breast Pump that would do it for you

• Do you intend to use a pump in addition to breast feeding?
• Do you intend on pumping and storing several containers of milk?
• Are you resuming work?
• Are you going to be away from baby for several days?
• Time and ease it takes to pump – electric and battery can be faster
• Where would you be using the pump – it’s easier to use Avent manual breast pumps and battery powered pumps in small spaces, unlike the Avent electric breast pump which needs power outlet

Using Avent Breast Pumps

Note that breast pumps are typically single-use devices. Hence a breast pump should only be used by one Mother because there is no way to guarantee the pump can be cleaned and disinfected between uses by different women.
The money you may save by buying a used pump is not worth the health risks to you or your nursing baby. Breast pumps that are reused by different mothers can carry infectious diseases, such as HIV or hepatitis.
Buying a used breastpump or sharing one may be a violation of the manufacturer’s warranty and you may not be able to get help if you have a problem with the pump.