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 ...

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 published ...

A cross-sectional study in which colostrum samples were collected simultaneously from each breast using different milk expression methods, including manual expression or electric pumping, assigned by ...