We observed additional milk could be expressed following pumping using hand techniques. We explored the effect on production of hand expression of colostrum and hands-on pumping (HOP) of mature milk.

Mothers of preterm infants can avoid insufficient breast milk production by combining hand techniques with electric pumping.

Hand expression vs breast pumping in the early postpartum period may improve eventual breast-feeding rates at 2 months after birth, but more research is needed.

News Release 18-Jul-2011 Manual breast milk expression better than breast pump for poor feeders Randomized trial comparing hand expression with breast pumping for mothers of term newborns feeding ...

Francie Webb, a full-time working mother-of-two, is leading the charge to return to the natural breastfeeding methods by urging mothers to 'dump the pump' in favour of hand expressing milk.

A mum has started a campaign to try and encourage other women to express milk by hand Credit: Instagram The mum-of-two told Mail Online Australia: "I first started hand expressing milk full-time ...

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 ...