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Philips Avent Isis iQ Duo Twin Electronic Breast Pump
From Philips Avent
List Price: $349.99
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Customer Reviews

Love it. Comes in a great bag!
I love this pump. It’s very easy to use and comes with lots of stuff. The item description lists all the items; however, it’s difficult to see all of them in the picture in good detail. So when it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised. Also, it all comes in a really nice bag! It almost looks as if it should be a designer bag. I’m very pleased with this product, its look, and its ease of use.

Dig it.
Bought this pump to nurse my first child in hopes that I would be able to continue to nurse after I went back to work. I work a lot - at leat 50 hours a week (not by choice…) and wanted to be sure that if I can’t be with him all of the time, he can at least keep the benefits of nursing. I nursed exclusively for 10 weeks and pumped a few times each day to build up my freezer supply. Currently I’m using this pump about 7-9 times each day (including right now while I type). When I first cameb ack to work, I was pumping about 6-9 oz total in about 10 minutes. After a week, I was only able to pump about 3 oz. ot sure why - but I odn’t think that it’s the pump. Anyway - I have had topick up the pace with the pumping at work, using it at least 5 times during the day, which I couldn’t do with another pump.

Things I like - This pump is super quiet. I can pump in my office and nobody is the wiser (though I guess I dont’ really are if they know…). THe control handle with the one touch button is great. I’ve watched my friends try to pump with the medela and let me tell you - this pump is way easier to use. the bag is nice, bigger than i thought it would be, but very nice. If you don’t take tons of stuff with you, you can use the back pocket (no designated use) for a wallet, cell phone and other relatively flat things. Cord/tubing is long - I can leave the bag (with the pump in it - no reason to take it out) on the floor and sit in my desk chair and pump while I type. The petal inserts are nice - I didn’t use them right away, but eventually got better results when I did. Now I love them. You get two plastic bags to store the horn setup in (one is always recently washed and drying) as well as pieces to seal off the horns so that they don’t get dirty - great idea. The thinsulate bags are very nice, work very well. I pump WAY faster (never more than 10 minutes, letdown within 1 minute) than anybody else and get just as much if not more milk each time (keep in mind that even though some people get 8-10 oz or more each session, the average is like 2-3 ounces regardless of the pump).

Things I don’t like: AS much as I like the petal inserts, they do make the pump a bit more drippy - milk gets stuck under them - keep a paper towel handy. We’re not talking streams or constant drips here though. With the horn setup on, it is VERY top heavy and takes a couple of ounces (3 ish) in the bottom of the bottles to balance better, so be very careful. It’s a closed system though so even if it falls over, you’ll lose a few drops at most (milk can’t get from the bottle back into the horn). Also - I don’t like avent bottles - they leak too much. And this is true with the pump. The horn screws onto the bottle and it leaks just like the bottle with the nipple would. The icepacks are cumbersome - several small ones per thinsulate bag instead of 2 bigger ones or something. Also, two of my icepacks ruptured before i ever used them. I bought bigger icepacks at the dollar spot at target and am having better luck using those. I only need them to stay cold for 30 minutes at most!

Solutions to what other people don’t like: Setup time isn’t really that long. 1-2 minutes once you know how to do it. I leave the control wire in and unplug the tubing, leaving it in the same pocket the pump is in. I unplug the power cord but I don’t separate it into the two pieces - this gets stored inside the main compartment instead of the compartments it is supposed to be in. There is plenty of space of iti n the main compartment. I go to work, set it up on the floor by my desk and leave it there all day. There are lots of pieces that attach to the horns, but I just leave them attached to the bottles and store them in the refridg. There is no real reason to wash the pieces every singe time you use them - you can leave breastmilk sit at room temp. for 6-10 hours and you can pump into the same bottle all day long, topping the milk off (read “So That’s What Their For!” it will explain this), you can certainly pump, leave the horns attached to the bottles, unplug the tubing and throw the whole horn/bottle setup into the fridge. When you are done for the day, cap the bottles and close up the horns, head home and wash them up for the next day. Problem solved.

Control at your finger tips
I bought this pump for occasional use. I am nursing exclusively and had a lot of trouble and pain with latching problems. So I figured that if the issues continued, it would be very good to have the pump ready to go so that we wouldn’t have to rely on formula.

The pump is very good. Just yesterday I pumped 8 oz from both breasts because my 6 week old decided to skip the 3 am feeding and I was very engorged. The pump did the job in 4 minutes per breast (I know that it is a double, but I had only one horn upstairs and didn’t really wanted to go fetch the other one downstairs). I don’t have to haul the pump, so I can’t give you information on that. The Amazon price cannot be beaten.

Pros:
- It works with all the Avent bottles and sterilizer (you will need one of those, it is worth the money).
- It is fast and reliable.
- Doesn’t make a lot of noise.
- Comes with everything you may need to pump on the go and haul pump, parts and expressed milk safely, including features to keep the parts sterile properly.
- Comes with all parts for the manual pump as well, so you have a back-up in case something happens with the electric and if you want to have a pump nearby just in case while traveling.

Cons:

- It has a lot of parts and it takes a while to get used to what goes where.
- It makes my breasts sore. It is better with the comfort shield, and it is getting better with practice, but it is still a con.