Hello everyone, I'm Eleven Mom! Welcome to eleven moms' breastfeeding tips. Last articleI told you about the preparation of the mother before carrying the milk. Today I'm going to talk about the things to pay attention to after the back of the milk.
First, the mother's precautions: choose Thursday, Friday to start working, milk according to the baby's needs, do not suddenly disappear or appear in front of the baby's eyes
1. Choose To work on Thursday or Friday
Let's start by choosing which day to start working. If you have the option, it is recommended that you try to start work on Thursday or Friday, so that you can spend time with your baby again on the weekend. Strive to minimize the time of first separation from the baby, so that the baby has a process of adaptation.
Of course, in order to let the baby know in advance about the mother's work, you can also take the baby with you on the first day of work and introduce your work place to the baby.
After going to work, the mother will have an hour of breastfeeding time every day, and she can decide how to use this hour according to the distance of the work place.
If your home is close, you can choose to go home and feed it at noon. If your home is far from the unit, you can also choose to go home an hour earlier in the afternoon, so that you can have more time with your baby.
2. Milk according to the baby's needs
After officially going to work, you may be most confused about how much milk you have to carry home in a day to drink enough for your baby to drink.
There is actually no standard answer to this question, because each baby's situation is different, I have talked to many mothers before, most of the feeding amount is between 300 and 400 ml, you can first follow this amount of milk, if the baby is not enough, then adjust.
This is important to note that the back milk period still needs to be fed on demand, and how much milk you need to pump each day depends on how much milk your baby needs to eat. The specific amount of milk you and the baby will know for a few more days.
Once you know your baby's milk intake, you'll have to schedule the number of milks you'll have to milk each day.
The actual experience of most nursing mothers is 2 to 3 times a day. Of course, this can be adjusted depending on your job position and busyness.
Usually the working hours are 8 hours a day, plus there are almost nine hours on the road without the baby, generally every three hours to milk, you need to milk about three times a day. If you can go home once at noon, you can reduce the milking.
I recommend feeding your baby before going to work and scheduling a milk in the morning.
If you can go home at noon, you can feed it once. Feed your baby again before you leave at noon, schedule another milking in the afternoon, and feed you as soon as you get home, or if you can't go home at noon, add one more milking at noon.
It should be noted here that you should communicate with your family in advance, and do not let them feed the baby two hours before you arrive home, or give the baby who has added complementary foods to eat other things, otherwise it will affect the baby's feeding.
3. Soothe the baby's separation anxiety
The problem of the baby feeding is solved, but in the face of the first separation from the mother, how do you deal with the baby's separation anxiety?
At this time, you should remember that you should not suddenly disappear like magic, or appear in front of your baby's eyes.
Mothers should not sneak out of the house after work, even if the baby is crying, kiss and say goodbye to the baby, so that the baby can slowly adapt; the time agreed with the baby to go home should be on time. If there is indeed a delay in the key, it is also necessary to tell the baby about it through video or other means.
You need to let the baby know that although the mother has left, the mother will come back. Although the baby can't understand, he can feel that his mother will eventually come back to be with him, thus relieving separation anxiety.
Second, the precautions of the baby caregiver: arrange the baby's work and rest, learn how to heat breast milk
After talking about the work of the mother, I will talk about the work of the baby caregiver, but before the replacement mother takes care of the baby, the caregiver must first learn how to heat the breast milk and the correct feeding method.
1, heat breast milk: heat with warm water below 40 degrees, or directly into the room temperature environment
After the mother brings home the milk, she can refrigerate the amount the baby needs the next day, let the caregiver take it out the next day, heat it up and give it to the baby.
When heating milk, it is not recommended to use hot water to directly dissolve or heat it at high temperature, or heat it in a microwave oven. All of these methods have the potential to destroy milk.
The best way is to heat it with water below 40 degrees or simply put it at a temperature similar to the room temperature. Caregivers can also use the warmer, which is set below 40 degrees.
If it is heated and frozen milk, it needs to be taken out first, put it in the refrigerator excessively, and then gradually increase the temperature of the milk with warm water below 40 degrees after thawing.
2, feeding: on-demand feeding + each feeding time is not too short
After talking about how to breastfeed after heating breast milk, the key is to pay attention to two points:
One is feeding on demand.
Feed your baby as much as he wants, but be careful not to overfeed.
Sounds a bit contradictory, doesn't it?
In fact, if you want to avoid overfeeding, parents only need to use a newborn-specific pacifier for their babies all the time.
Do not feed vertically when feeding with a bottle, let the baby sit as straight as possible, and place the bottle horizontally to ensure that the nipple head is full of milk when feeding. Let the baby suck as much as he wants, and don't force it.
Second, the time to feed the baby each time should not be too short, and the time for the baby to feed on the mother's breast is almost the same.
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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