Breastfeeding is best for your baby; it provides essential protection against illness and initiates a very intimate relationship between you and your child. Breast milk contains more than 200 essential nutrients and antibodies, ensuring optimal health and growth of your baby. Each drop of breast milk is precious for your child's health and development.

Benefits for Baby: Breast milk is the most complete form of nutrition for infants. A mother's milk has just the right amount of fat, sugar, water, and protein that is needed for a baby's growth and development. Most babies find it easier to digest breast milk than they do formula.

Your Breast milk corresponds exactly with the needs of your baby and it's composition changes continuously to be exactly what your baby needs- naturally!

As a result, breastfed infants grow exactly the way they should. They tend to gain less unnecessary weight and to be leaner. This may result in being less overweight later in life.

Premature babies do better when breastfed compared to premature babies who are fed formula.

Breastfed babies score slightly higher on IQ tests, especially babies who were born pre-maturely.

Benefits for Mother: Nursing uses up extra calories, making it easier to lose the pounds of pregnancy. It also helps the uterus to get back to its original size and lessens any bleeding a woman may have after giving birth.

Breastfeeding also lowers the risk of breast and ovarian cancers, and possibly the risk of hip fractures and osteoporosis after menopause.

Breastfeeding makes your life easier. It saves time and money. You do not have to purchase, measure, and mix formula.

Breastfeeding can help a mother to bond with her baby. Physical contact is important to newborns and can help them feel more secure, warm and comforted.

Ameda breastfeeding products have been developed in close co-operation with prominent scientists, medical specialists & most importantly, mothers. Decades of experience in this area, make the Ameda products one of the most superior product ranges available on the market.

Elite Breast Pump:

The Elite is a quiet, electric, hospital grade double breast pump. It is a cutting edge model, with adjustable vacuum and cycles to imitate the natural sucking of your baby, and similarly, is ideal for meeting a mother's own specific need. The Elite pump integrates the unique Ameda Diaphragm technology, which ensures the milk produced is completely protected from potential viruses and bacteria. It also means your milk will never go through 'the tubes' on the unit- only directly into the bottle, making it extremely easy to clean!

Neurotech offer the Elite pump on a monthly rental basis. Please place your order online and include your telephone number. Our customer care team will need to contact you to fully process the rental

Elite rental is €95 per month. Eco Double Pumpset available for purchase €34.

Lactaline Personal Breast Pump:The Lactaline, is an electric, interval double breast pump. It is one of the smallest units of its kind, thus it offers you ultimate mobility, and ensures you can take your pump with you wherever you go. It is easy to use, discreet, quiet and efficient, making it one of the favourite pumps for private use. The vacuum and cycle settings can be adjusted separately, a feature not commonly found on home use units, which mimics your baby's sucking motion to perfection, thus helping you, the mother to pump effectively. The lactaline meets the highest hygiene standards and can be battery operated.

Lactaline carry case also available separately. A discreet and safe way to transport your Lactaline on a daily basis, wherever you may be going.

One-Handed Breast Pump:The one-handed breast pump has been designed with ease of use, comfort and a need to be highly effective in mind. While using one hand on the pump, you are left with one hand free for massaging the breast to aid with milk flow. The one handed Breast pump also incorporates the unique Ameda diaphragm technology, ensuring that your milk is safe and protected from the outside world.

Accessories

Large Breast Shell:Offers women with larger breasts/nipples, a more comfortable option for optimal expression of milk whilst pumping. If the breast shell is too small on the pump set, it can become uncomfortable to express, which is why we provide you with an option of the larger shell.

For use with the Lactaline Personal breast pump.

Freezer Bags:Specifically produced for the collection, hygienic storage and freezing of your breast milk. The freezer bags will store the milk, in the most hygenic manner and it will not absorb foreign odours whilst it is stored in the freezer. It is possible to pump directly into the freezer bags, using all of the Ameda range, which makes them the perfect accessory for busy Mums on the move.

Supplied in packs of 20 bags

Tulip Nipple Shields:The Nipple shields are made from a soft silicone, which protects sore nipples. The Tulip shields, can be used whilst experiencing sore nipples, whilst breastfeeding, to protect the nipple from discomfort. The innovative shape of the Tulips has been specifically designed to allow your baby's nose to be in contact with your skin while feeding.

GoldCream:GoldCream protects and cares for the nipples during breastfeeding and prevents skin irritation. GoldCream is made of 100% pure Lanolin, which is a completely natural wax and contains no additives or preservatives, making it completely safe for you and for your baby. GoldCream Lanolin has been developed into this high-grade cream by a comprehensive cleaning process, and is completely hypoallergenic. GoldCream will keep the skin soft & supple and can also be used generally for dry skin.

Available in 10ml & 30ml

LilyPadz:The LilyPadz are the only reusable and non-absorbing breast pads made of breathable materials. They are made from a soft silicone gel material, which is extremely comfortable to wear. LilyPadz prevent milk leakage by applying light pressure to the nipple. They are ideal for use under clothes, with or without a bra and similarly at night. They are completely discreet and can be used with confidence.

Disclaimer: Please note that these products are for sale in the Republic of Ireland only