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 Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Breast Pump
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by Matia Bryson
JustMommies.com Forum Question (4 September 2006):
"At Babies R US they now carry Dr. Brown's manual breast pump. Anyone have
this? Do you recommend it?? I want a manual pump and I was going to buy
Avent until I saw this now I can't decide."
Answer (6 September 2006):
I will throw in my two cents worth, since no one else has yet replied. I have
never tried the Dr. Brown's Natural Flow breast pump or any of their products. However, I have
been spending all my spare time since this spring researching and writing about
breast pumps for my website
Baby Loves Your Milk Breast Pumps.
Ameda and Medela have been the leaders in the breast pumps industry for the last
fifty years, mostly with their hospital grade pumps. In the last few years, the
way I see it, many other companies have been jumping on the bandwagon. Some of
the breast pumps have been utter failures to their users who review them (i.e.
cheap pumps like Evenflo and The First Years). There have been a couple of
promising new contenders like Avent and Playtex, that are receiving reviews
comparable to Ameda and Medela top-of-the-line electric breast pumps. I was so
hopeful for the new Gerber Massaging Breast Pump, because I have always liked
all of Gerber's other products, but it is disappointing to report that early
reviews are as bad as their previous line of breast pumps.
I would say if you have to be careful about your money (and who doesn't), get
the Avent Isis, or the Medela Harmony, or the Ameda One-Hand if you are certain
you want a manual breast pump and you must buy one right now. If you can wait,
let's just see what the users of the Dr Brown's say.
I really like this forum and I hope more breast pump users will post their
opinions of the pumps they have tried.
Updated Answer (15 November 2006):
Ok, I am back. I have done some more investigating of the Dr. Brown's breast
pump, and when
I contacted them and told them I write about
breast pumps for my Baby Loves Your Milk website, they sent me a press kit
including a DVD not yet available publicly.
I must say I am impressed with what I saw: the nipple was not tugged and pulled
in a "point-and-relax" fashion like you see with most suction-only pumps. It
looked much more comfortable. I can not emphasize this enough. I am only
concerned about whether it is effective in expressing milk. If I were still
lactating I would go out and try it myself.
What do the users of the Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Breast Pump say about it? So
far the only reviews I have found to read are on the Babies R Us website and
they are mixed. So mixed in fact, it is a wonder that people can be talking
about the same pump. I wonder if some of the users have confused this pump with
the "Natural Flow" breast pump by The First Years. It is unfortunate about the
names of these pumps having this similarity. I really wish when reviewers say
that a pump is horrible or painful they would be more specific about the nature
of the problem they had, i.e. friction issues, cycling times too long, suction
too strong on lowest setting, etc.
For more information about this breast pump you can read my article,
The New Trend in Breast Pumps: Massage or the official
Dr.
Brown's Natural Flow Breast Pump website.
Please share, anyone who has tried this breast pump.
Update August 2007... see
A Letter to the Handi-Craft Company
about the Dr. Brown's Electric Breast Pumps
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