How to hand express breast milk. Renee Kam, Melbourne September 2018

This page belongs to collection of short articles and videos in plain language, called When baby cries a lot in the first few months of life. Together, these articles and videos will give you a brief and simple summary of the Possums 5-domain approach to the crying baby. For comprehensive information on this topic, please consider reading The discontented little baby book.

What is paced bottle feeding?

Many families find they would like to know how to use a bottle in a way that is best for their baby and which feels as close to breastfeeding as possible. We call this approach ‘paced bottle feeding’.

We recommend feeding by 'cued care' – that is, babies are offered the bottle whenever they seem to want milk, and only until they communicate or cue they are full. In general, older healthy infants will cue for feeds every few...