Introduction to Hand Expression Technique

July 20, 2009 | By azrina In Hand Expression Technique |

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Breastfeeding is one of the most magical experience I’ve had in my life and no one baby is the same as the next . I have four and I think, I do have a tiny wee bit of authority to admit just that.

Anyhow.

Because I work full time and I am obligated to start work 2 months after the childbirth. It’s a constantly stressful time. But that needs a new post altogether.

You see, mu husband had athma when he was younger and being genetically hereditary, I became overly obsessed over breastfeeding. I figure that, if I can’t avoid it, at least, I hope that I could at least lessen its onslaught.

So I was determined to exclusively breastfeed my baby.

Like most working young mother, I could not afford those fancy Medela or Avent breastpumps and I could just afford the manual breast pump, the one where it comes in many parts and funnels and you’re supposed to pump up and down, creating vacuum so breastmilk would collect in the bottle.

My first pump was attached to a bulb. I later learned that that was meant to relieve engorgement and not meant to store expressed breastmilk.

Anyhow.

By week 1, I was not a hammpy camper, having to lug in the pump and pump away to not much milk collected and I especially hated having to carry the whole gangbang to wash those tricky funnels and tubes and whatnots.

There’s got to be something better, something easier and in my Dorling Kindersley Mother and Baby Book, I found it. There was a picture of a woman, leaning over a wide-mouth bowl espressing milk.

And I was sold.

To me, the Hand Expression Technique to express my bountiful breast milk was the most natural thing to do, next to breastfeeding itself.

So, read up my next posts on how you can make it happen too.