Baby Bottle

Avent Isis Manual Breast Pump
From Philips Avent

Product Description

You can prepare for a successful breastfeeding experience with the Avent ISIS Breast Pump. ISIS is a manual pump clinically proven to be as effective as electric pumps, yet mothers rated the Avent ISIS easier and more convenient to use. ISIS is designed to work naturally, and is ideal for new mothers who are learning to breastfeed. ISIS is the only breast pump that has a patented Let-down Massage Cushion to stimulate the same gentle let-down as breastfeeding. This allows you to express milk more quickly, with no discomfort, even in the early stages of breastfeeding. Avent ISIS Breast Pump is the only pump that doesn't rely on suction alone to be effective. Instead, ISIS uses a gentle massage and vacuum system that works quickly and efficiently.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6635 in Baby Product
• Brand: Philips Avent
• Model: SCF290/20
• Released on: 2007-03-09
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x 3.00" w x 7.70" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Includes one ISIS Manual Breast Pump, two 4-oz AVENT Natural Feeding Bottles and two Sealing Discs for breast milk storage

Editorial Review
The Avent Isis breast pump is a great portable system. This manual pump provides a comfortable and efficient way to pump without the need for a larger, battery-run breast pump. The disposable silicone "let-down" cushion has five petal-shaped massagers that flex in and out to imitate your baby's suckling. It's comfortable because you control the speed and pressure. This pump is easy to take apart and clean and comes with a stand, travel cover, sealing disc, spare diaphragm, and two valves. It also has a newborn nipple so you can use the 4-ounce bottle to feed your baby. --Andrea Linsky

From the Manufacturer
Clinically proven as effective as competitor electric pumps -- and the manual pump preferred by breastfeeding moms! The ISIS Manual Breast Pump is designed to be physiological ¿ stimulating a natural milk flow most like natural breastfeeding. ISIS is the only manual pump with a gentle Let-down Massage Cushion that flexes as you pump and creates a reliable vacuum, so you can express milk gently and quickly. ISIS is clinically proven as effective as competitor electric pumps, resulting in the same amount of milk in the same amount of time, and also rated by mothers as more comfortable to use. It's easy to see why ISIS is the manual pump preferred by most moms! ISIS works with the entire AVENT Natural Feeding System and lets you pump, store and feed in any bottle or cup. Try it and see!

Customer Reviews

Makes me wonder why I bought the Medela Pump In Style
Everyone on Earth told me, "Don't cheap out and get a manual pump! Get the Medela!!!" I do like the Medela, but...well, read on.

Last week, when my baby hit 4 weeks, my husband and I spent the weekend on a mini-vacation while my mother-in-law took care of the baby. I didn't want to take my big, luggy Pump-in-Style along and set it up in the hotel room, just to express milk that I wouldn't keep because I had nowhere to keep it. So I went to the drugstore and bought the Avent Isis, about which I'd heard good things.

Compared to the electric pump, this was SOOOOOOO CONVENIENT. All you have to do is hook up an Avent bottle (or disposable breastmilk cup) and go. There's no tubing to plug in, no bag to lug around, etc. I got just as much milk out of this as I do from my Medela P.I.S. It was easy on my hand, too, and I have a tiny, tiny bit of residual carpal tunnel syndrome left over from pregnancy. The milk just flowed.

Also, I was already using Avent bottles, so that makes this even easier. If you want to store your milk in Avent bottles but use another brand of pump, you have to buy Avent's bottle-neck adapters. (I have these, too, for the electric pump.)

With the electric pump (for the unfamiliar out there), you have to hook up tubing between the part that gets the milk from your breast, and your electric pump unit (concealed in the fashionable bag). You also have to hook up a plug from your bag/pump unit to the wall. It is annoying if one end of the tubing, say, touches the floor or your pet comes up and gets his face on it before you get started (have to re-clean and start over). There are other annoyances, but the setting up is the most inconvenient part of the electric pump. With the manual pump--and the Avent Isis is a particularly good one--you just hook the bottle to one end of the pump, put it up to your breast, and get milk.

I guess the one advantage of the electric pump is that you can pump both breasts at the same time.

I don't find the Isis to be remarkably slower than the P.I.S. And I get just as much milk. (Some people don't.) If I had less money and economy were more of a consideration, I'd surely try this pump first before trying an electric pump.

So...

PROS
--easy setup
--very portable
--gets as much milk as an electric pump (at least, for me)
--economical (much cheaper than electric)
--if you use Avent bottles, it's easy storage
--almost as fast as electric pump (at least, for me)
--hooks right up to Avent bottles OR disposable cups
--Avent adapters separately available for use with other brands of bottles

CONS
--only pumps one breast at a time
--doesn't always get good milk from all people, but does from many

Oh! One more thing: if you want to store your milk in bags, whether you use an electric or manual pump, just express the milk into a clean bottle and pour it into a bag. The Medela has a complicated method for expressing right into a bag, but it takes EVEN LONGER to set up. And use Lansinoh bags.

Great little pump!
Recently, while on vacation I misplaced the membranes for my "Medela, Pump In Style Breast pump", which are vital for operation. The spare parts were safe at home, and with a hungry boy on my hands, I was in a predicament. Unable to nurse, I have provided my son with breast milk by pumping three times a day since birth. I was concerned about maintaining my milk supply, not to mention the discomfort of very full breasts, so I purchased the Isis Breast pump because I use Avent products and liked the idea of being able to pump right into the feeding bottle, 4-ounce, 9-ounce or disposable. I am amazed by the comfort, control and power this little hand pump provides. In addition, I enjoy the convenience of not having to be "plugged in" and the reduced amount of bottles to wash. I found this pump to be great in a pinch, or for a weekend away. However, for my particular situation having to express 30 ounces a day in order to keep up with my little guy, the "Pump In Style" is superior to the Isis in both speed and quantity of milk expressed.

Avent Pump Works Wonders For Me!
My sister-in-law purchased this Avent pump for me when I told her I would continue breast-feeding after the first few days. It works wonders! I lactate frequently and I can easily pump 6 to 7 ounces (when my breasts are full) in 10 minutes. The Avent is painless and quick. I have read that some women only get 2 or 3 ounces out in 20 minutes with their other manual and electric pumps! I highly recommend this to anyone expressing and pumping. It is inexpensive compared to the electric models (somehow hooking my breast to something electric seems too freaky!) and very easy to clean up. I wash mine with hot water and a bottle brush and then place in my microwave sterilizer. It did take a few days to get used to because this is my first child and first breastfeeding experience but overall I can easily pump four bottles a day (ranging from 3 ounces to 8 ounces in one shot!) AND breastfeed my four week old on demand during the day. This pump was the way to go for me!