Ameda Purely Yours Ultra Breast Pump - New with $50 Rebate!

Description
Ameda knows moms respond differently to different pumping patterns. The Purely Yours Ultra CustomControl dual adjustability has separate suction and speed dials that let you choose from 32 different combinations to customize your pumping experience for the best results every time.

Ameda takes customization a step further with its CustomFit Flange System. Moms need their breast pump flange to fit properly for greatest comfort and better milk flow. Because flange fit can change with birth, breastfeeding and pumping, the three most popular flange sizes are included ensuring a good flange fit as long as you continue to pump.

Purely Yours Ultra includes everything needed to pump comfortably and effectively while on the go.

Includes
- Newly styled Purely Yours Ultra Breast Pump (1 each)
- Ameda HygieniKit Milk Collection System (BPA and DEHP free) with extra valves
- 30.5 mm CustomFit Large Flanges (2 each)
- 28.5 mm Medium inserts (2 each)
- AC Power Adapter (1 each)
- Car Adapter (1 each)
- Cool ’N Carry Tote including three cooling elements and four 4-ounce bottles with lids (BPA and DEHP free)
- One-hand handle assembly for manual pumping (1 each)
- Milk Storage Guide Magnet
- Pumping Pad for a clean pumping surface
- Ultra Suede/Faux Leather Tote/ Shoulder Bag (1 each)

Product Features
Microprocessor Controlled, Piston Driven

Only Ameda electric breast pumps are controlled by powerful microprocessors. This amazing technology allows greater variability in suction levels and cycling speed, ensuring that more mothers can find their personal comfort level while pumping. Additionally, it allows suction to be adjusted independently without affecting the cycle speed and vice versa, unlike other brands of pumps.

Piston-Driven
A piston moving back and forth inside a cylinder is the means by which suction is generated and released in all Ameda electric and manual pumps. This has long been the highest standard in breast pump technology for safe and effective suction.

Adjustable Suction Levels and Cycle Speeds

What is the suction level? The level of vacuum strength. What is cycle speed? The number of times suction is generated and released in one minute. A combination of suction strength and cycle speed on a breastpump provides the stimulation necessary to remove milk from the breast. Each mother is unique and requires a certain level of suction and cycle speed to be comfortable and successful using a breast pump. Ameda appreciates every mother's individuality, so both of our electric pumps offer a greater variety of suction and cycle settings than any other pump in their category. This ensures that with Ameda, each mother can find a setting that creates the best stimulation for her individual needs. The Purely Yours Ultra breast pump offers eight suction levels and four-cycle speeds.

Lightweight and Portable
Ameda electric breast pumps were designed with today's mobile mother in mind; therefore our pumps are lightweight and easily portable. The Purely Yours breast pump weighs only around 1 lb. (0.5 kg).

Bottle Holders for Bottles/ Freezer Bags

Bottle holders are built into the pump to minimize the possibility of spills and loss of precious breast milk. For added convenience, they are specially designed to hold the HygieniKit when used with either bottles or freezer bags.

Product Benefits
- Comfortable and effective, with 8 adjustable suction levels and 4 cycle speeds to mimic baby's sucking
- Mothers can pump anywhere with this convenient pump that operates via AC adapter, car adapter, or AA batteries (sold separately)
- Ensures the purity of expressed milk with the patented HygieniKit Milk Collection System

Rebate Form with instructions included with breast pump.

Voltage

110V North America $289.95 220V Australia $309.95 220V Europe $309.95 220V UK $309.95

NOTE: Price valid only for US Addresses (48 contiguous states). Contact us for other locations.

Pure and Simple - The Purely Yours Breast Pump

Breast pump manufacturers believe their products to be the best – and they should, otherwise their advertising claims are nothing but inflated half-truths told for the sole purpose of making money. Quality pump makers are of course interested in profit, but unlike their "shady" counterparts, quality pump makers also want their products to enhance the lives of breastfeeding mothers and babies.

On my crusade for quality pumps, I have been fortunate to come across more than one quality pump maker. The latest addition to that list is Ameda. For a one-month period in February 2003, I tested the Ameda Purely Yours breast pump (with backpack).

Since 1997, Hollister, Inc. has been distributing Ameda pumps and breastfeeding accessories, yet the Ameda name has been synonymous with breastfeeding products for well over 50 years. Currently, Ameda offers a wide range of breast pumps for rent and for purchase.

Easy-to-use

The Purely Yours breast pump comes packaged in a brightly-colored box. Pictures of pumping moms grace the cover along with points that Ameda feels are important positives of their product: easy-to use, comfortable, convenient and safe. My first taste of the Purely Yours breast pump's ease of use came when I slid the black, backpack out of the box. Much to my delight, assembly – what there was of it – was pretty self-explanatory. In less than one minute, I was set up and ready to pump. (Cleaning is equally easy.)

Comfortable

Instinct told me to be wary of the hard plastic funnel. My past experiences with similar structures left a bad taste in my mouth. But in the spirit of fairness, I did my best to put those thoughts out of my mind. The first two seconds of pumping were uncomfortable, but then I discovered exactly why it is important to have a pump with adjustable settings. I fiddled with both the suction and the speed, and within seconds, I was pumping in pure comfort. My first 15-minute pumping session yielded 4 to 5 ounces.

During my research, I discovered that Ameda sells a Flexishield Areola Stimulator, a flexible insert that can be used with the Purely Yours pump. While I can't attest to its effectiveness, Ameda literature claims that the Flexishield mimics Baby and helps stimulate let-down. This could be a nice alternative for pumping moms who are leery of hard funnels.

Convenient

This is where the Purely Yours breast pump gains beaucoup points. Besides being housed in a super-trendy, sleek backpack, which unzips at the bottom to reveal the motor, this pump operates on three power sources: AC adapter, car adapter and batteries. How's that for convenience?

As a bonus, the Purely Yours breast pump with Backpack can be converted to a manual, one-hand breast pump. While I certainly didn't pump nearly as much with the manual pump as I did with the electric, I could see how nice it would be to have the option – especially if you were dealing with engorgement or simply wanted a "no frills" way to pump a few ounces.

The top half of the backpack houses a "cooler" that contains ice packs and six, 4-ounce, clear plastic bottles.

Safe like the idea that my breast milk is protect from viruses and bacteria. The Purely Yours pump accomplishes this by using a patented diaphragm to create a barrier, which protects the pump and tubing from contamination. (Ameda has obtained FDA clearance to make this claim.)

When my month-long trial period had come to an end, I was happy to see that Ameda's advertising claims on the box – easy-to-use, comfortable, convenient and safe – held true off the box, as well.


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