Every person is different and some people will need to pump more or less frequently to get the amount of milk their newborn needs. Your pumping schedule will also likely change as time goes on, and as ...

Much like breastfeeding or chestfeeding, pumping milk shouldn’t hurt. The pump’s job is to gently encourage a milk letdown, then continue suctioning to collect that milk. This process shouldn’t be ...

Nancy Murray, nurse clinician and lactation consultant at Duke Children's Primary Care, answers some frequently asked questions about breast milk pumping. I wrote about WakeMed's Mothers' Milk Bank ...

Both nursing and pumping are excellent ways to feed a baby breast milk. People should choose the feeding strategy or combination of strategies that work best for them and the infant. Breast milk is ...