Nature

Combining hand techniques with electric pumping increases milk production in mothers of preterm infants

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 ...
Medscape

Mix of Hand Techniques, Electric Pumping May Increase Milk Production in Mothers of Preterm Infants

July 23, 2009 — Mothers of preterm infants can avoid insufficient breast milk production by combining hand techniques with electric pumping, according to results of an observational study reported ...
Healthline

Hand Expressing: How and When To Use It

Breastfeeding is supposed to be natural, right? Between all the pump parts, bottle parts, nursing covers, nursing pillows, nipple shields, and nipple creams you’ve amassed you may have started to ...
EurekAlert!

Manual breast milk expression better than breast pump for poor feeders

And by the age of 2 months, breastfeeding rates were higher among those babies whose mums first expressed their breast milk by hand than those who first used a breast pump. Almost all the mothers (97% ...
Nature

Combining hand techniques with electric pumping increases the caloric content of milk in mothers of preterm infants

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 ...