Even Three Decades after Their Launch, Breast Pumps Cause Discomfort to Users – What are Manufacturers Missing?
Although breast pumps hit the commercial scene in 1981 with Medela, a Swiss company, bringing a range of hospital grade pumps to the market, the evolution of these pumps has not kept pace with expectations. In the early 1990s, the same company stepped beyond hospital grade pumps to launch more compact electric breast pumps that women could use in their homes. The pumps, based on a vacuum suction mechanism that imitates the suckling action of a baby’s mouth, were targeted mainly at working women. The vacuum suction mechanism in these pumps is still widely used in the many breast pump models currently on the market. Browse the full Global Breast Pumps Market Report: http://www.mrrse.com/breast-pumps-market What’s concerning is that for a product that has been on the commercial market for over three decades, breast pumps still cause lactating mothers a great degree of discomfort even today. Women using breast pumps face issues such as cracked skin around the nipples, ...