For a novice mother, the biggest worry is the baby’s food ration. The baby’s crying is often a signal that everyone starts to blame the mother.
Look! The baby cried, it must be that you didn’t have enough milk and starved the baby.
In the eyes of all people who doubt and question, the mother tries hard to stick to the already difficult breast-feeding. Often, she will be brainwashed successfully, labeled herself as “less milk”, and even felt deeply guilty because she did not have enough to feed her baby.
Today, let’s talk about the shortage of milk that mothers are worried about. First of all, let’s talk about the unreliable way of chasing milk.
Unreliable Way of Chasing Milk
As for the method of chasing milk, it is estimated that mothers can gather together a book, which includes all kinds of magical foods and medicinal materials. In fact, these have no medical basis.
Lactagogue soup
Drinking more soup does not increase the amount of milk. The so-called lactagogue soup often lacks research on lactation safety both at home and abroad, and it is not recommended to try it at will.
Pangolin hair milk
The Chinese who dare to eat anything also have the method of pangolin hair milk. In fact, pangolin, as a national protected animal, really has no milk hair effect. Please cherish pangolin and return it to Huludao’s grandfather.
Massage by a breastmaster
If massage is useful, the happiest one should be the owner of the dairy farm. Milk therapist massage is expensive and unreliable. Free milk therapist is the little angel who sleeps beside you.
Correct Tracing Milk
The first choice is to feed the baby. Not to mention TA’s small mouth sucking powerfully, just the cute appearance of the skin touching the little person nested in the chest can stimulate the mother’s prolactin to rise. This is something the cold machine of breast pump cannot bring.
Under special circumstances, babies cannot be fed frequently. Mothers can settle for second best and use breast pump to pump milk regularly to simulate sucking stimulation. When sucking milk, you can video with your baby, or look at TA’s photos and listen to TA’s crying and laughter, which is also helpful for mothers to secrete milk.
In addition, remind mothers that adequate rest and healthy mood are also very important, adjust their work and rest as much as possible to keep in line with their children, seize the time to sleep as soon as possible, and hand over everything other than nursing to others.
Why is [baby feeding] preferred?
Generally speaking, the principle of milk is summed up in one sentence: the more you eat, the more you have milk.
Baby sucking is the best signal to stimulate milk production for the breast. Through frequent close feeding, the brain receives the signal that a starving child needs milk and immediately directs the breast to start milk production.
Exclusive breast-feeding mothers are encouraged to breastfeed at least 8-12 times a day, including one night milk, and there is no upper limit on on-demand feeding. On-demand feeding means that babies are hungry and need to breastfeed.
Especially in the first few days after delivery, the baby is the best milk maker for mothers. Frequent sucking of TA is the best way to promote the increase of postpartum milk volume and relieve the physiological milk swelling in the early stage.
Is milk really insufficient?
Mothers who are used to looking for standard answers or like to keep up with the Joneses may care:
There is no scale on the breast, how do you know how much milk you have? Squeeze it out and measure it in a measuring cup? How many values is a passing line?
In fact, milk is to feed the baby, not to really become a [cow] to compare the absolute value of milk quantity. Each child’s appetite is different, the needs are different in each period, and the milk quantity of mothers is also constantly changing.
In the first three days after delivery, the baby’s appetite is only the size of cherries and its capacity is only about 5ml. The baby’s eating pattern is to eat less and eat more.
Baby crying is not the standard to judge whether milk is sufficient. There are many reasons for crying, such as cold and hot fatigue. At the same time, it is unreliable to predict the milk quantity when the baby is fed by the breast pump, because the sucking efficiency of the baby is far higher than that of the breast pump.
In many cases, mothers mistake themselves for [insufficient milk], so they don’t have to worry about the baby’s insufficient food, so they can master objective indicators to judge. Click here to view five indicators to judge whether breast-fed babies are full.
Know what it is and why it is, abandon those unreliable ways of chasing milk, and firmly remember that the principle of lactation is the only truth to test all methods of lactagogue.