expressing milk

Removal of excess milk from tight and uncomfortable breasts by simulating with the fingers the action of the baby's gums. Expressed milk is often offered to the baby from a bottle.

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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* One third said that career opportunities were negatively impacted by breastfeeding or expressing milk at work.

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Michelle couldn't breast feed Eden-Olive after that so she became obsessed with expressing milk for her.

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Although breastfeeding was important to 95.6 percent, 58.1 percent stopped earlier than they wished because of poor access to lactation facilities and challenges associated with expressing milk. Thirty-nine percent of respondents strongly considered leaving surgical residency, and 29.5 percent would discourage female medical students from a surgical career.

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"Experiment with expressing milk if breastfeeding."

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The courts now are required to provide employees with reasonable break time for expressing milk for the first year of the child's life, and to provide a private and sanitary space, other than a bathroom for women to pump.

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(14) While such breaks remain unpaid and are unreliably enforced, expressing milk has now become a modern mother's reality.

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I initially started expressing milk but the milk was not enough at some point.

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(9) Analogizing to an earlier Fifth Circuit case that found that discrimination against a person who was denied employment opportunities because her menstrual cycle and not yet re-emerged after pregnancy was prohibited under Title VII/PDA, the court determined that lactation and expressing milk are indeed aspects of female physiology that, like menstruation, are "related medical condition(s)" of pregnancy for purposes of the statute.

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"In many cases, like Leanne's, expressing milk allows mothers to maintain their milk supply until their babies are strong enough to feed and help them establish breastfeeding.

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But in Hong Kong, even women who want to breastfeed their children, whether by nursing them at the breast or expressing milk through a pump to then bottle feed to a baby, often lackAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA a venue to do so, especi when they're out and about in public.

In Hong Kong, New Spaces For Breastfeeding Moms

So it's been a surreal Christmas for me, as I now know everything there is to know about breastfeeding and expressing milk.