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 ...

And by the age of 2 months, breastfeeding rates were higher among those babies whose mums first expressed their breast milk by hand than those who first used a breast pump. Almost all the mothers (97% ...

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. Expressing ...