The lack of milk is really an anxious topic. A message in the background touched me a lot:
Hello teacher, my baby is now more than forty days old, I don't have enough milk for the baby to eat. So I began my "career" of chasing milk: I felt that the child was going to grow up on me, I kept holding and feeding; I couldn't leave the milk soup; at night, when the baby was asleep, I still had to use a breast pump, although I couldn't suck any milk, but I heard that sucking with a breast pump can also promote the secretion of milk, so I used it. Multi-pronged, I'm tired myself but feel less milk, what should I do?
This hard-working mother, in the process of chasing milk, the milk does not increase but decreases, and anxiety is inevitable.
As we all know, milk chasing is to reduce milk powder while allowing babies to suck and stimulate more, so as to achieve a state of balance between supply and demand. In turn, when we look at her milk chasing methods, many of them are obviously wrong, especially their own non-resting, tired milk chasing, the result will definitely be half the effort.
In fact, there is experience to follow in milk chasing, we have guided many mothers to chase milk successfully, from which we summarized six "milk chasing experience", written down for everyone's reference, I hope that everyone will take fewer detours and successfully achieve exclusive breastfeeding.
1. About baby sucking
Everyone knows to let the baby suck diligently. However, many mothers will "use too much force" if they are not careful at this time. Let the child eat vigorously.
As the saying goes, "use the strength to eat milk", indicating that the baby is very tired to eat, let him eat all the time, and the milk array can not suck out, the child is not willing, after a long time will not like the mother's nipples. And the mother holds the baby to breastfeed, is very tired, the body is tired, the milk must not be more wow!
Anyone who masters a degree, when chasing milk, should also eat milk and rest for two hours at a time and then feed, which is good for mothers and babies.
2. About breast pump
The breast pump does solve a lot of big problems for breastfeeding mothers, but when chasing milk, it is really not as easy to use as we think. The breast pump imitates the baby's sucking, but unlike the principle of the baby's sucking, mothers should not put their hopes on the breast pump.
If you use it too often and use it improperly, it will also cause rupture of breast capillaries, nipple pain, areola edema and other problems, so it is not a special case, it is not recommended that mothers who chase milk frequently use breast pumps, and the stimulation of baby sucking is enough!
3. About reducing milk powder
Mothers who basically chase milk are mixed feeding, so how to reduce milk powder is also a very critical factor. The lesson here is – step by step.
According to the actual situation of their babies, mothers add it twice a day, start chasing milk and become it once, or 90 ml each time, become 60 ml. Gradually reduce until no milk powder is added.
Negotiate with your family and don't make the home disharmonious because of the problem of milk powder. Because we have seen many examples of this: the mother wants to feed breast milk, and the grandmother has to secretly feed the milk powder to the child, and it is strange that the milk chasing is successful.
4. About diet
Do you have to catch milk soup?
No.
Pig's trotter soup, crucian carp soup and the like do have a lactation effect, but it also varies from person to person - if mothers feel that they are effective in eating these soups, they can eat some, but remember to skim the oil; if there is no effect, just eat normally.
In the diet, everyone pays attention to balanced nutrition and does not exceed the amount. Nursing mothers should observe their own diet, meat, seafood, vegetables and fruits, fine grains and coarse grains, they must eat, eat well, milk will be better.
5. About rest
In a word, rest well, every day upwards.
Since the birth of the baby, almost all mothers have not slept a good night's sleep!
So let yourself go, don't use the breast pump to suck milk day and night, in addition to kissing, some of the baby's small things will be handed over to others to take care of it! Your body needs to rest, your breasts need to rest, and there will be more milk production in a good state.
6. About the mood
A good mood is definitely a "milk-inducing artifact". Dragging a tired body to chase milk, the possibility of success is really unlikely.
Undo your tight brows, raise the corners of your mouth, and breastfeed happily, when you let go of the burden, maybe in a few days you will be able to pure breast milk!
Every mother gives everything she has, gives the baby the best, or will not work hard to chase the milk. Just be sure to determine your own method of chasing milk, in order to achieve more with less.
And mothers must remember that while chasing milk hard, they must love themselves well, after all, if the mother is good, the baby will be better.
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