Ardo Calypso Double Plus Electric Breast Pump - Ultra Quiet - Single or Double Pumping - Mumsnet Best - BPA-Free - Swiss Medical Device

My poor little baby couldn't latch properly since birth so after trying several different options, I had to resort to expressing milk to make sure she received the goodness of breastmilk. I researched for several weeks before I went and splurged on an electric pump (I was using my philips avent hand pump till then and omg my hands were sore!). There are many pumps available on the market for various prices...you'll find that a hospital grade pump is expensive unless you rent it...but if you're planning to express long term, I would recommend THIS pump. Double electric, easy to use, improves milk supply, quiet, easy to clean and use and most importantly, closed circuit so NO risk of contamination, even if you buy one second hand. There are so many cases of mold and fungus growing inside the tubing of various high end breast pumps but that's not a problem with this one. VERY pleased with the product. Was delivered to me by 11am the very next day and customer service has been absolutely fantastic. The set comes with three different sized flanges for different sized breasts for comfort. Don't we just love swiss-made products? :) Oh and I'm yet to see or hear of a bad review about this pump! I would say its VERY reasonably priced for what you get and in comparison to other similar models. You can adjust both the speed of suction as well as the suction pressure, each to 6 different settings...just fab!

Overall great product, compared really well to hospital grade pumps, incredibly easy to use and versatile and finally customer service is excellent.I used a pump in hospital and was not disappointed with the Ardo pump I used at home. It comes with a lot of different sizes pump heads which makes a SIGNIFICANT difference. Other pumps don't have this (you might be able to buy pump heads seperately), Ardo sends you various different sizes as standard and you can try them out to see which works for you.The pump is nice and strong and has a very simple to use set up where you can vary suction strength and auction frequency. This is great and works very well.It is portable - works both with a mains connection and with batteries!It is super clean and totally mess free. It comes with milk collection bottles but not baby bottles. I think this is a huge plus because it allows you to use which ever brand bottles for your baby (and as any parent will know, you might end up trying different bottles to see which works for you so would not want your pump to tie you to a certain brand of bottle).It was dispatched incredibly quickly and delivered perfectly. I ordered at 10am one morning and had it with me less than 24h later (for no extra cost).I ordered double pump but have only used it as single - my choice entirely. It is also relatively quiet and like I said, very efficient.Have compared to Tommie tippie and medela pumps that a friend has and I still think Ardo is better (medela might come close too, but the Tommie tippie one is definitely not even a competitor).I would thoroughly recommend this and I don't understand why its not more well known!

Edit: This isn't a very well made piece of kit. Only a week after the refund window the electrical part of the kit failed, I have bought replacement parts but the main box makes a squeaking sound for every pump and the suction has significantly decreased. Leaving me in a rubbish position because I obviously need to keep up with regular pumping so it's either I buy another one or give up and use formula.So I bought the double Calypso after being lent a single one by the NHS. It's a good electric pump and does what it says on the tin. I like how you get provided with different sized flanges catering for different shaped nipples. I wouldn't say I'm able to extract any more milk than with my wearable with this product, which was slightly disappointing as I was told closed systems were more efficient.The thing that bothers me is that I need to use both hands to keep the pumps in place, so it's very difficult to change the settings between stimulating and expressing as you need to stop was your doing to free a hand to change vacuum / cycles. Would be better if you could switch cycles automatically. If I knew how annoying it was I probably wouldn't have bought it.

Ordered this following using the larger version whilst my son was in NICU, cannot fault this product did the job perfectly and I am still using this 1 month after ordering, as unable to latch, so solely expressing to feed - milk came in 5 days after premature birth at 33 weeks using this machine - I have had no problems or pain