Many mothers who have just given birth have experienced physiological swelling, which may be a wake-up, or it may be an hour or two, and the soft breasts become swollen, painful, red, can not be touched, painful and swollen and uncomfortable. It's a real hurdle for motherhood.
In the face of large swollen milk, some mothers can dredge it through the baby's sucking; some need prolactinators to help unclog the breasts and massage acupuncture points to solve the problem of large swelling. Before the prolactinator comes, there are some ways we can take ourselves to relieve the pain of swollen milk, which we will talk about in detail below.
1. Baby sucking
We often compare breasts to lactation plants (not just factories, of course), and babies suck by placing orders for factories. As we all know, a certain number of orders is necessary to keep the plant running. Therefore, in order to continue to secrete milk, or to maintain the normal lactation function of the breast, the baby's sucking must be the most important.
When the mother is physiologically inflated, it is more important to win the "favor" of the baby, as long as the baby sucks through, the swelling will naturally be reduced and gradually improved. So when physiological swollen milk comes, let the baby suck more!
Some mothers say that my breasts are swollen and hard, my nipples are flat, and my baby doesn't eat at all. At this time, you can use the method of hand milking to slowly turn the overly full breast into a normal state. If you can't milk by hand, you can wait for a professional prolactin to help drain and unclog the breast. However, mothers must not rub their breasts indiscriminately, and the wrong strength of the technique will cause secondary damage to the breasts, and the gains are not worth the losses.
2. Cold compresses
As we all know, physiological swelling of milk, swelling is not only milk, but also some blood, tissue fluid, lymph in the breast accumulation, we need to let these "back in place", so that the breast normal lactation.
So we can take some cold compresses, such as cabbage, potato chips, fresh dandelions, mashed cacti, all good choices.
Because the general physiological swollen milk mothers have just given birth and cannot use particularly cold compresses, the cold compress we say is at room temperature, not the "cold compress" that has just been taken out of the refrigerator.
Physiological swelling of milk, it is not recommended to apply hot compresses, which will aggravate the expansion of the breast ducts, and even lead to local infection and inflammation of the breasts, so it is necessary to apply cold compresses.
3. Acupressure point massage
When the breasts are particularly swollen, the baby can not suck, we can use acupressure massage to reduce the swelling.
The specific acupuncture points are as follows:
Middle acupuncture point, nipple root acupoint, period gate acupoint, eagle window acupoint, neiguan acupoint, shenmen acupoint.
Press separately for 2 to 3 minutes at each acupuncture point.
It has a good effect on milk and physiological swelling.
Precautions for physiological big swollen milk:
It is not recommended to use a breast pump for a long time and vigorously pumping
Pay attention to correcting the baby's latch position
Oppose violent lactation
Don't let your husband help pump
Except in special cases, generally do not introduce bottles to prevent confusion of the baby's nipples
Physiological swelling, the occurrence is quite common, it is recommended that mothers after childbirth, timely let the baby suck, both can eat valuable colostrum, but also can effectively prevent mothers from serious swelling, and the baby's first time pumping to get a gentle experience, will get more sense of security, give a good start to breastfeeding in the future, so that the breastfeeding road is smoother.
You can learn more about breastfeeding so that you don't get caught up in the breast milk process. All we can do is hope that every nursing mother will be helped when breastfeeding is having problems, support when you don't want to continue breastfeeding, and encouragement when you are hesitant to breastfeed. Pay attention to your own heart, whether breastfeeding or not, does not prevent you from being a mother who loves your children-
The prolactin master is always by your side