Manual breast milk expression better than breast pump for poor feeders

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 02:00 in Health & Medicine

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 online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

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