Expressing breastmilk (2008)

Description

This resource is part of the Growing strong: feeding you and your baby set of resources from Queensland Health. It is a simply written and illustrated booklet providing a broad outline of expressing breastmilk. Topis covered include:

• hand expressing
• expressing with a breast pump
• storing breastmilk
• thawing and warming breastmilk
• transporting expressed breastmilk

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

When to use this resource

This booklet could be distributed to women with infants and who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. The information on how to store/use breastmilk would also be informative for any person providing care to an infant using breastmilk.

Contact details

Queensland Health Building
147-163 Charlotte Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Ph: (07) 3234 0111

Links

• View resource: Expressing breastmilk (PDF - 523.4 KB)
• View information: Growing strong: feeding you and your baby
• View website: Queensland Health

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