In regard of this discussion, the following may be interesting:

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From: "Helen Armstrong" <[log in to unmask]>
>      Can mothers really hand express all the milk their baby needs for
>      about six months, without ever expecting to put the baby to the
>      breast?
>
>      Are there cases demonstrating how long a milk supply of about 700 ml
>      per day or more can be provided using non-electric means alone?
>      Morrison of Zimbabwe collected some cases of non-breastfeeding


http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/AnSci308/milkejection.html

citation:

"The streak canal must be opened to remove milk. This can occur by:

negative pressure - such as with the milking machine

positive pressure - such as with hand milking

positive and negative pressure - both occur during suckling

A small amount of milk may be obtained from the teat cistern, the gland cistern,
and the large ducts by passive milk removal in the absence of milk ejection. "


It is interesting to see that hand expressing and electric expression is
categorized as two different things. so, probably we cannot apply the results of
the one thing, to the other thing.


regards, Annelies Bon
Lay counsellor of the Dutch bf organization "Borstvoeding Natuurlijk"

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