Hand Expression 101 🤱✨ An essential skill that every breastfeeding parent should know! Here’s the technique: 🔹 Warm & massage your breasts first to stimulate letdown (milk release reflex) and milk flow 🔹 Make a “C” shape about 1 inch back from the nipple 🔹 Press back toward your chest, then compress and release in a rhythm Why hand expression matters: ✔️ Can be fed directly to baby from a spoon, helping them practice coordinated sucking and swallowing 🥄💛 ✔️ Gets baby used to breastmilk’s t

Here's what usually happens: you're given a list of exercises to push through. Your baby is upset, you're stressed, no one is having a good time. Here's the alternative: you focus on engagement. Connecting with your baby. Using an older sibling, using play, using songs, using food in older babies, using toys. When the focus is emotional safety, regulation, and connection, the progress you see is so much faster! If the plan you have for your baby isn't focused on both of you feeling regulated and