Own, and so valuable the experience of breastfeeding.
My experience of breastfeeding without training shared with our readers Dina King, mother of one year old child.
Write about what was for me one of the most important issues over the last year. As usual we preparing to leave? All know what it is, to put it mildly, not nice, but can be alleviated, so we read tons of literature. And I was not original.
How are things done in your life? In childbirth, you forget about everything and move under the guidance of doctors and midwives. All goes well, the child is not you, and in the house, all day sleeps, but it needs to be fed.
Here we come to the main – feed! For some reason I naively thought that breastfeeding is a natural process, deep natural, and therefore nothing complicated. Here it is, chest, what no, but each has, here it is – a child. Yours is just to connect two objects. On all extent of the misconceptions I learned in the first month of your long-awaited motherhood.
I hope that this article fell into the hands of the reader that:
1. Will soon become a mother,
2. Will soon be a dad and preparing for this event
3. Will soon become a grandmother.
Please remember the most important rules of breast-feeding (GW), they will be useful to your family.
1. No need to cook Breasts to the guards. The opinion that the nipples should be cleaned with brandies, other liquors and lotions to intensive sucking of the child they are not cracked, not sick, etc. – is wrong.
2. The milk comes on the third day after birth. Prior to this, the breast is colostrum, so the baby will not be hungry. No need to give formula. It violates the formation of microflora in the body of a baby, and needed it.
3. The mother must drink plenty of fluids. Remember, a hot drink of milk contributes to the tides, cold – ensures the normal functioning of the body. In the hospital you can limit hot because of the numerous tides bring pain and can lead to lactose at this period the “settings” of the breast. But should drink cool water.
4. Food. Nuts, condensed milk, broths, which in great quantities are in the hospital our mothers in order to milk the bad fat, their darling faster come around after a difficult birth, only worsen the situation. The immature gastrointestinal tract of our kids will react to allergic reactions and painful cramps. No need to sit on the crackers, but give up your favorite treats at this time.
5. And the subject of the most heated discussions and debates – pumping. Only about them, and I’m scared rocketing from arriving milk breast of the newly made mother. Now in the hospital very good policy regarding pumping sessions – only for medical reasons. If you are given drugs that are not compatible with GW, if you birth something went wrong, the child is not with mom, and in intensive care – only if you need to Express milk, the ability to save and GW after. First, you perceive it as a failure almost a matter of life and death, but only poprosilsya time you will understand the whole truth of the doctors.
Our chest adjusts to the desired mode HS, only one person in this world is a CHILD.
Pumping is an artificial fence milk chest perceives this signal and begins to produce milk in such quantities that lead to stagnation and regular lactose.
Formed a vicious circle – the more you pump milk, the more you will need to decant it tomorrow, day after tomorrow, in a week. Wait out this difficult time – the beginning of GW. The child is working on his nutrition, breast – chooses the correct response to the request of the child. And the less You interfere, the better. But, nevertheless, something still can be done.
Feed ON DEMAND, not on schedule.
In the first month of life the child can eat every 1.5-2 hours Is normal.
Learn to PODSAZHIVALI chest. When you feel that another drop, and she burst from the tide, make a couple of movements of the fingers towards the center of the nipple. Will podadite milk, but not until the end. But only to ease symptoms. You relieve discomfort, and will not affect the amount of milk either to one or to the other side.
First aid KIT for breast
1. Antipyretic/anti-inflammatory (I used baby syrups on the basis of ibuprofen).
2. Ice. In the case of hardening in the breast you give the breast to the child after its complete devastation put ice twice for 5 min with an interval of 15 min.
3. Anti-inflammatory cream (compression) on the painful place (cabbage, Traumeel s).
IMPORTANT!
When pain, temperature above 38 degrees, you must immediately consult a doctor – mammologist or surgeon.
Dads, though you are without a breast, but can help a lot in the GW-period. The first months of a baby’s life mom is in the load space. I’ll remember for a lifetime, as the first day after the hospital put the kettle 6 times, and the tea never drank. And if my mother is against this background even starts to feel problems with the Breasts, the stress just rolls over. Your task is to read along with the mother of your child this article and at the right time – to support.
Comments of a specialist.
In addition, I want to highlight some mandatory rules breastfeeding:
1. When feeding mother should not feel pain or discomfort, otherwise slowing the outflow of milk from the breast; the body of the mother needs to be relaxed, there should be tension in the back, neck and hands;
2. Posture when feeding should be comfortable for mother and baby: the body of a child turned to his mother and pressed him (stomach to stomach); it is better to change position during feeding: day – sitting and night – lying on your side, it will contribute to a better emptying all lobes of the breast and to establish good lactation;
3. It is important that the child seized the chest: the normal child’s mouth should be wide open, he grabs the nipple and most of areola, the lower lip of the baby turned, his chin pressed against his chest – so child will be comfortable to suck and swallow, he will be able to hold the breast (it will not slip out of his mouth) that will help prevent cracked nipples; after feeding to be massaged nipples and brush them with milk; it is unacceptable to wash the Breasts with soap and water after each feeding – it helps dry skin and cracking.
