Almost all the mothers (97%) assigned to manual expression were breastfeeding compared with just under 73% of those assigned to the breast pump.

Better breastfeeding after manual expression 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 ...

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 ...

Almost all the mothers (97%) assigned to manual expression were breastfeeding compared with just under 73% of those assigned to the breast pump.

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.