Expressing breast milk by hand in the first days after birth is better for boosting breastfeeding rates among poorly feeding newborns than the use of a breast pump, indicates a small study. Expressing ...

Pump-dependent mothers of preterm infants commonly experience insufficient production. We observed additional milk could be expressed following pumping using hand techniques. We explored the effect on ...

While every breastfeeding journey is unique, there are many reasons you might choose to express your breast milk. It's essential to know how to express and store breast milk safely, whether your baby ...

Almost all the mothers (97%) assigned to manual expression were breastfeeding compared with just under 73% of those assigned to the breast pump. Most who used a breast pump at 2 months said they did ...

A small study published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood says that expressing breast milk by hand in the first days after birth is better for boosting breastfeeding rates among poorly ...

We previously reported that preterm mothers’ milk production can exceed levels of term mothers by using early hand expression and hands-on pumping (HOP) with the highest production (955 ml per day) in ...