heather wrote:
>
> Denise's 'defence' of hand expressing is something I would go along with -
> it's common practice in the UK to hand express before using any form of
> pump, for term babies as well as pre-term babies,  and as hand expressing
> usually gets something, however small, that can be collected and given to
> the baby (unlike the pump) it makes a lot of sense for mothers to do this
> in the early days.
>
> Heather Welford Neil
> NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

In my own experience in a hospital in Adelaide SA, I was asked to hand
express some colostrom for my baby when he had early nursing problems,
the midwife spent a lot of time with me being offering encouragement
with every drop that came out.  Never was any kind of mechanical device
offered or mentioned at that stage.  BTW the midwife was very impressed
with the amount of colostrom I managed to express, 20ml :)  I imagine a
good deal of that might have been lost in pump tubing etc.

Gitte
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