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.

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

New mothers who practice expressing their breast milk by hand during the first days following their child’s birth are more likely to still be nursing two months later than mothers who use an electric ...

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 ...

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.