Assessment of Annabella Breast Pump Performance

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Overview

This is an interventional, prospective, randomized, comparative, two-period cross over study to evaluate the performance of Annabella breast pump against a control breast pump.

50 women who are 2-5 months post-delivery will be included in the study following appropriate consent. Women will be randomly allocated to two groups for the type of pump used on the first session. Each expression visit will start approximately 3 hours after the end of a regular baby feeding session. Each expression visit will start approximately 3 hours after the end of a regular baby feeding session. During each visit, milk will be expressed once a day from each of the two breasts (left \& right). During the 4 first visits (at least 1 day apart) Annabella or the control pump will be used. After at least 3 days washout period, milk will be expressed for additional 4 days, once a day from each of the two breasts, using the other breast pump. An expression session will last until no milk is expressed for 3 min continuously but not for longer than 25 min. Participants will be serving as their own control. Milk will be collected for volume and quality assessment. Maternal comfort at the end of each visit will be assessed using questionnaire.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Breast Feeding

Interventions

Annabella Breast PumpDEVICE

Milk will be expressed using Annabella breast pump for 4 consecutive days (at least 24h apart)

Control Breast PumpDEVICE

Milk will be expressed using Control breast pump for 4 consecutive days (at least 24h apart)

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Women ≥ 18 years old * Women whom are 2-5 months post delivery * Lactating women - Breastfeed with no more than formula feeding twice a day and no solid food feeding (which replace breastfeeding) during the study period. * Breastfeed or pumping at least 5 times a day * Mother to healthy infant born at ≥ 37 weeks of gestation age. Exclusion Criteria: * Woman who consumes under 1,500 kcal/day (on a diet) * Report a high mental stress condition and/or depression * Use of estrogen oral contraceptives * Pregnant women * Suffer from chronic diseases that can impact breast feeding * Participate in another clinical trial * Mothers of babies who may develop feeding difficulties according to the investigator decisions (such as cleft pallet, autism). * Woman with Sunken/ flat nipple or inverted nipple. or any other physiological condition that may disturb breast feeding. * Woman that declares at time of recruitment that she is unable to extract more than 25ml per breastfeeding (overall from both breast)

Locations (1)

Shamir medical center

Be’er Ya‘aqov, Israel

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Milk Volume collected using the breast pump

Total milk Volume (cc)

Time frame: immediately after the intervention

Secondary Outcomes

Satisfaction Satisfaction questionnaires

rating scale: Min: 1 , Max: 10; higher score- better outcome

Time frame: immediately after the intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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