The Breast Pump Rental Center at South Florida Baptist Hospital opened in September of 2001 as a part of the hospital-s ongoing efforts to improve care to patients and the community.
The center offers more than 30 items featuring breast pumps and lactation accessories including nursing bras, storage kits and travel bags. Items range in price from .54 to $316.00.
Breast pumps are available to buy or rent. Rental Fee is an affordable $45.00 per month with a $50 deposit.
The Breast Pump Rental Center employs a lactation consultant to help new or repeat moms with fitting sessions for nursing bras, demonstrations on nursing technique and instruction on using breast pumps.
For a Breast Pump Rental Center price list or to talk with a Family Childbirth Center Breast Pump Rental Representative, call 813-757-8343.
Mothers who breastfeed enjoy the following benefits:
- Quicker return of uterus to pre-pregnancy size with minimal bleeding
- The benefits of prolactin and oxytocin, the hormones of breastfeeding. Prolactin calms the breastfeeding mother
- Less chance of developing ovarian and premenopausal breast cancer
- Less chance of endometrial cancer if breastfeeding continues for one year or more
- Less chance of developing osteoporosis
- Return to work sooner with less incidence of absenteeism due to enhanced health and greater immunity of child from childhood diseases
Breastfed babies have less incidence of:
- Allergic diseases
- Ear infections, gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, Crohn-s disease and ulcerative colitis
- Respiratory infections such as RSV
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Lymphoma, meningitis, urinary tract infections
- Childhood insulin-dependant diabetes
