Hand expressing breast milk is a useful skill with so many benefits. Whether you're collecting colostrum for your baby in the NICU, battling clogged ducts, or trying to increase your milk supply ...

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 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.