>In my 30+ years of helping moms, I think I have tried every method and
>placement under the sun for hand expression...and observed mothers doing it
>for themselves effectively with many different placements of hands and
>fingers.
>
>Could you all be right?  I think so!


Of course!

This is why I felt so strongly that *doing it to the mother* is 
unhelpful. Apart from the potentially highly invasive nature of the 
process if it is done by someone else, the mother has to feel for the 
right spots and get the right pressure in the right rhythm *herself* .

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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