If you’re needing to express milk, especially in the early postpartum period, hand expression is an incredibly valuable skill. In this video, after a full pump session, 8 mL of milk was collected. With just two minutes of hand expression afterward, an additional 5 mL was obtained! Hand expression is especially useful during the colostrum phase, when milk is thick and produced in small volumes. Because colostrum can be difficult for a pump to effectively remove and collect, hand expression is oft