Margaret and Susan - that's brilliant!  Thanks so much.  I definitely 
liked the first link Margaret gave - the one described as "not the 
classic technique" but I completely agree - you can't argue with 
those effective, strong spurts!  That's what I'm used to seeing when 
mothers express by hand effectively.  Lovely!  Thanks!

The one showing the Marmet technique had me whispering, "cup the 
breast, cup the breast" but alas, the mom was instructed _not_ to, 
with predictably slow and ineffective results ... :-(   The best 
hand-expressers I've seen use all the fingers below the areola to 
squeeze inwards, and the milk gushes out - and I see that the 
diagrammatic video you suggested, Susan, uses all the fingers.  Wonderful.

Pamela
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http://www.breastfeeding.com/helpme/helpme_video_hand_expression.html
(maybe not the classic technique, but can't argue with those spurts of
milk!  Also shows a pump flange being used as a funnel into a bottle.)

the animated graphics on Victoria Nesterova's website -- do you know this site?
http://breastfeeding.narod.ru/expressanim.html

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