I came across this paper about "colostrum-kits", that a structured way of informing mothers before risk deliveries about colostrum and how to express it, can shorten the time it takes to first colostrum feeding. (link below)

Would be interesting to hear from you all if/how you do this in your NICUs.

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s13006-024-00682-5

Yes, this is quite routine in UK units. The ones we give antenatally and in delivery suite where I work also have some bonding squares that parents can pre-scent antenatally or at birth.

You might be interested in some printable resources on milk expression, including staff posters on the impact of early expressing: www.hifn.org/printable

Those posters were really great. I’ll add a couple of them here. 

That's very interesting graphic material.

We have a routine of prescribing prolonged oropharyngeal colostrum, so whenever a mother delivers a preterm baby, we have a team ready to help this mother express colostrum as soon as possible. Even if the mother goes to the ICU, we have a designated team to support her.

When we explain the importance of her colostrum to her baby care and that 2.5 ml are enough to provide oral care for the whole day (we apply .1 ml each side, every 2 h, with enteral feedings), their faces light up, and they say that volume they surely can provide.

We don't use any graphic or written material, but this might be interesting to do.