Janica and Jeff Alvarez think at least one aspect of new parenthood should be seamless and simple: pumping breast milk.
Jeff, a medical device engineer, made his very first breast pump from a surgical glove, a washer, duct tape and a piece of a catheter in the couple’s garage. His wife, Janica, a pharmaceutical researcher who was breastfeeding one of their sons but fed up with traditional electric pumps, was his beta tester.
