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Expressing and Storing Breastmilk

How Milk Production Works

Mothers have successfully fed their children for thousands of years of human history without understanding how it works. It’s a bit like driving a car – as long as it’s working well, you don’t need to know what is going on under the bonnet! If you are having breastfeeding problems, such as low … [Read more...] about How Milk Production Works

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Exclusively Expressing Breastmilk for Your Baby

When babies cannot feed at the breast comfortably and effectively, and breastfeeding support is hard to find or not able to help, mothers may choose to use a breast pump to express all the milk their baby needs, and then feed via a bottle or feeding tube. This is known as exclusive pumping. While … [Read more...] about Exclusively Expressing Breastmilk for Your Baby

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Expressing Your Milk

Expressing your milk by hand or with a pump helps you establish and maintain your milk production if you’re separated from your baby or if he isn’t breastfeeding well. And if your milk production is low, expressing can help increase it whilst also providing extra milk to give to your baby. When a … [Read more...] about Expressing Your Milk

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Storing Your Milk

Your breastmilk is the best possible food to help your baby grow and develop, combined with antibodies, live cells, and other substances to protect him from infection. It’s worth the effort to provide expressed milk for your baby when you can’t be there to nurse him. Although some of the nutrients … [Read more...] about Storing Your Milk

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