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Hand expressing can be useful for several reasons:
- When your milk changes, you may feel engorged and uncomfortable. Your breasts may feel hard, and your baby may struggle to attach. Hand expressing a small amount of milk may soften the breast and help your baby to attach
- Sometimes babies can be reluctant to feed, and hand expressing some milk may encourage them.
- If you needed to be separated from your baby when the colostrum is being produced, the amounts are so small you would lose it in a pump. Hand expressing means the colostrum can be collected in a syringe and given to your baby.
Please look at this video for a clip showing you how to hand express.