When our breasts are swollen and the baby is not around, we will need to expel the milk in the breasts, and the breast pump and hand milking are all available.
However, the breast pump is often unsatisfactory, when the flared mouth or the strength is not appropriate, it is easy to cause nipple areola edema and even rupture of capillaries in the breast, we sometimes see that the milk pump is light red, which is why in order to avoid breast injury, we must pay more attention when using the breast pump.
There is a better way is hand milking, we know our own breast state, the technique will be more gentle and able to adjust in time, there is almost no harm to the breast, so it is still very necessary for nursing mothers to learn to milk by hand. Let's talk in more detail about hand milking.
Correct hand milking method
Drink a cup of warm water, find a comfortable place to sit, prepare a clean wide-mouth bottle or cup, and relax and we can prepare to milk.
Excessive or wrong milking will not only hurt the breasts, but also completely unhelpful to milk production, and pain is not the right way.
When milking by hand, do not squeeze out a drop hard, let the milk drip down, so that the breast will be very painful or even injured, the milk spray reflex will come badly, the hand is relaxed and squeezed, repeatedly squeeze with the same force, when the milk spray reflection comes, the milk that oozes out will naturally quickly concentrate into a drop, and then catch it with a cup or bottle.
This kind of hand milking, suitable for healthy breasts, back milking mothers hand milking back milk or breast swelling need to remove milk situation, can not help the accumulation of milk discharge, we must pay attention to.
Step-by-step milking method
Sometimes, there are some conditions in our breasts. We divide the breast into three parts, the part close to the nipple areola is called the anterior segment, the near the nipple root becomes the posterior segment, and the middle part is called the middle segment. If there is a problem with one part of the breast, we can use the step-by-step milk discharge method to promote milk discharge.
When draining milk (pushing and squeezing in the direction of the nipple with the abdomen of the finger), it should start from the front part and slowly discharge, not directly from the back of the breast, because if the front part is blocked, the milk in the back section will inevitably not be discharged. Warm a towel for 15 minutes to help the breast ducts soften to help drain the milk, and after slowly squeezing out the milk little by little, when you feel that the whole breast becomes softer, the middle and back stages of the milk are discharged.
Here's how:
Before milking: gently squeeze the fingers, which need to be squeezed in each direction;
Milking the middle section: the hand is C-shaped, the outside of the areola is 2 fingers wide, and the skin is pressed into the chest wall to the areola;
Post-milking: the hands are C-shaped, 3-4 fingers wide outside the areola, and pressed along the skin to the chest wall;
Situations to be aware of
1. If the nipple is swollen very large, it may be that the baby sucks too hard, the breast pump is used improperly, the nipple is squeezed too hard and the nipple is swollen, pay attention to adjusting the baby's latch position, stop using the breast pump, and apply egg yolk oil or comfrey cream to alleviate;
2, if the color of the nipple is white, it may be that the blood vessels supplied around the nipple suddenly contract to form a Raynaud's phenomenon, at this time you can first put hot compresses to rest, do not feed or milk immediately, because the nipples will also be tired, the breasts will also be tired, we must also avoid making the nipples too tired, pay attention to rest;
3, hand milking is also something that we need to practice more, because of individual differences, some mothers milk array fast, so hand milking is relatively fast, milking out more, some mothers need to stimulate a period of time to come to the milk array, can not be generalized, mothers are skilled after naturally able to express milk very well;
4, if there is mastitis, milk stasis, it is not recommended that mothers milk by hand, because milk stasis or inflammation, we need to cooperate with professional milk discharge, soothing and acupuncture point massage techniques, so that the accumulated milk is discharged, simple squeezing may lead to the spread of inflammation, then find a professional prolactin to help at the same time with the baby sucking it!
Hand milking, at first it will not be easy, this is normal, we also need to know more about their breasts, find the most suitable way for themselves, and learn a new skill that no one is familiar with to the fire!
So even if you don't look at the ticking milk in the beginning, slowly you will see the milk spray like a shower.
Give yourself time to learn hand milking, an essential skill for nursing mothers!
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