How often to hand-express Dr Davis suggests treating hand-expressing just like pumping if you’re doing it to increase or maintain milk supply while away from your baby.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.