The duration of breastfeeding can be long or short, and varies from person to person. The WHO currently encourages all infants to be breastfed for at least 6 months, after which they can continue breastfeeding until 2 years of age on the basis of regular complementary foods, thus providing a full range of nutritional and immune protection during the most critical period of life.
Moms should pay attention to the following during lactation:
1. Maintain a healthy and optimistic attitude, believe that you must be the best mother, and fully capable of providing continuous and sufficient food for your baby. Milk production does not depend on how much milk you eat, but on your peace of mind, routine and rest, and happy family status. The process of feeding the baby must be the warmest moment, at this time, through the baby's stimulation of the nipple, feedback stimulation of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to release oxytocin and prolactin, so that the mother feels happy, oxytocin also has a commonly known as the hormone of love, can be combined with prolactin to stimulate milk secretion, milk increased.
Therefore, the baby feeding process of 8~10 times a day is itself a key link to maintain milk production.
2. Healthy mothers can secrete healthy breast milk, mothers should pay attention to maintain good health, regular work and rest, balanced diet, avoid diseases, try not to use drugs casually, so as not to bring drugs to the baby through milk. But at present, in weighing the harm caused by breast milk entering the baby's body through breast milk and the pros and cons of stopping breastfeeding, we are increasingly inclined to continue breastfeeding, and even consider feeding first and then taking medicine, and reduce the dose of drugs through milk in a way that plays the drug metabolism time difference.
Of course, when breastfeeding, the mother should still use the medicine under the guidance of the doctor; When the baby is unwell, it is necessary to check whether the mother has a history of taking medication.
3. During breastfeeding, it is not absolutely strict to control the diet, some people say that you can not eat spicy, can not drink, can not drink coffee, and ask the mother to give up all previous personal preferences, in fact, it is not so serious. Indeed, the content of various components of milk will fluctuate with the mother's eating, but all the food consumed by the mother must be absorbed into the blood through the metabolism of the mother's gastrointestinal digestive system, and then enter the milk through the blood milk barrier, and the metabolic rate of various substances during this process is greatly reduced, that is to say, you ingest 10g of substances, the real milk content may be less than 1g, so that your favorite food, only need to pay attention to the appropriate amount, but more intake can be.
4. Keep enough milk: The folk have always had home remedies for milk and milk, and they think that they should drink more crucian fish soup, pig's trotter soup, and rib soup to increase milk production. In fact, it seems that this approach is wrong now. Time has passed, and the nutritional status of each mother is very different from the past. We have detected that the content of the three major nutrients in breast milk ingredients greatly exceeds the scope of textbook labels, and milk-inducing food brings uncomfortable symptoms of the baby's gastrointestinal tract, milk leakage, reflux, bloating, intestinal colic, etc., stool with milk flap, non-digestion, etc., and even some babies cause severe eczema, diarrhea or constipation and other food allergies due to excessive intake of eggs, milk, fish and shrimp foods.
Therefore, lactating mothers should pay attention to nutritional balance and not too much, but must pay attention to drinking water, so that the baby has enough milk to drink.