Hello everyone, I'm Eleven Mom! Welcome to eleven moms' breastfeeding tips. After the baby is born, the mother should feed him frequently, during this period, if the right feeding position is used, the mothers will feed much easier. Today I will share with you three very practical feeding postures and explain how to use these postures at different times to achieve the effect of doing more with less.
1. During confinement: first of all, breastfeeding semi-lying, pad waist, arms, knee sockets, etc
First of all, I most recommend that mothers in confinement use the semi-lying type of breastfeeding.
There are two reasons to choose this posture:
First, it's a position that gives your baby the most initiative.
Second, the mother in the confinement is lying down most of the time, and it is more convenient to breastfeed half lying down.
With that said, you understand that half-lying breastfeeding is the best option for both mom and baby.
When in the hospital, you can ask the nurse to help you shake the head of the delivery bed to about 45 degrees to 60 degrees, and then ask your family or nurse to put a pillow on your head, so that you can raise your head slightly and observe the baby in your arms, which can also make you more relaxed.
Then you just need to put your hands around your baby's body and let your baby's head naturally rest on your hand. It will be easier to change a pillow under your hand.
After you go home, the bed at home is not like the hospital bed, you can shake it up directly, and you need a pillow to help you lie down. You can use a pillow at home, or you can buy a memory cotton pillow that resembles a lazy memory triangle pillow, which fits the curve of the waist and neck. It will be more comfortable for you to lie down after being placed on the bed, or it is recommended that you buy a bed seat that is also very suitable for semi-reclining feeding. If you are interested, you can search for it.
In addition to the pillows, you'll need a square pillow that is well supported to support your arm around your baby. If you have a relatively hard pillow at home, you can also use it directly, or buy a square memory foam pillow.
In addition, if you have any uncomfortable places, such as knee sockets, you can also take the size of the home pillow pad, in short, how to be comfortable.
There are two reasons to choose semi-lying breastfeeding during the month:
First of all, confinement is when you recover, and the baby has a long time to feed at this time, so it is recommended to choose a position that allows you to stay for a long time and is not tired, that is, semi-lying breastfeeding. At this time you can even rest while feeding.
Secondly, the baby in the confinement is not skilled in feeding, may often choke on milk, semi-lying breastfeeding can help the baby reduce the occurrence of choking.
2, out of the confinement: semi-lying breastfeeding + cradle breastfeeding
After confinement, we can alternate between semi-lying breastfeeding and cradle breastfeeding, which are more convenient for mothers to breastfeed during the day.
Cradle breastfeeding is when the mother sits in a chair or sofa with her arms around her baby. The baby's head rests in the crook of the mother's arm, and the body turns in the direction of facing the mother's body. When feeding your baby, you can put a pillow under your baby's ass, as well as a pillow for your waist and arms. In short, all uncomfortable places need to be well mated.
After the confinement, your baby may be feeding for 1-2 hours at some point in the day. If you are tired from using a position for a long time, you can alternate between cradle breastfeeding and semi-lying breastfeeding to make yourself more comfortable.
3. Night milk feeding: side lying breastfeeding + semi-lying breastfeeding
After talking about the feeding position during the day, let's talk about the feeding position at night.
Because at 0-3 months of age, the baby will still breastfeed frequently, and the mother's rest may be disturbed.
If breastfeeding at night, the first choice for breastfeeding positions is to breastfeed on their sides, because the mother can sleep while feeding.
Specifically, lying on your side is when you lie on your side and your baby is lying on your side.
When facing the breast in the lying side of the breast, there is easier to have a gap between you and the baby, so at this time, pay special attention to keeping the baby's chest and small belly close to your body, and ensuring that his body and head are in a straight line.
However, if the baby in the confinement can not lie on the side to breastfeed because of oral structure and other reasons, such as the more common tongue tie short, high palate arch, etc., it will be difficult for the mother to breastfeed with a semi-lying style.
As your baby grows up and practices many times, he becomes a nursing skilled worker, and there is no pressure to feed in any position.
Some babies can already feed in any position by more than three months, and they can eat very happily on your body very casually.
Finally, let's summarize the main points of today's article:
First, semi-lying breastfeeding is preferred during the confinement period, and attention is paid to pillow pads such as waist, arms, and knee sockets.
Second, out of confinement can adopt a combination of semi-lying breastfeeding and cradle breastfeeding;
Third, when feeding night milk, lying on your side is the easiest. If your baby has difficulty drinking milk, choose a semi-lying breastfeeding style first, and then practice slowly.
Well, today's article is shared here, I hope that we can have the opportunity to become a better self because of the arrival of our children, be better parents, learn to think, learn to judge, learn to analyze, and accompany our children to grow up with him.
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