Nikki re-posts this study:

>
>Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2012 Jan;97(1):F18-23. Epub 2011 Jul 11.
>
>Randomised trial comparing hand expression with breast pumping for mothers
>of
>term newborns feeding poorly.
>
>Flaherman VJ, Gay B, Scott C, Avins A, Lee KA, Newman TB.


Interesting, because it indicates that the mothers in the trial were 
more likely to be bf at 2 mths if they had used hand expression.

What strikes me here is that both sets of mothers - the pumping ones 
and the hand expressing ones - got such poor yeilds:

>
>RESULTS:
>The median volume of expressed milk (range) was 0.5 (0-5) ml for hand
>expressing
>mothers and 1 (0-40) ml for pumping mothers (p=0.07).


Half a mil? One mil? Seems very strange....

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK


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