And what if there is no milk?
Perhaps this fear is the most common. Previously, our mothers were trained to put a coarse cloth into a bra to prepare the nipples. Now it is proved that extra stimulation of the nipples is absolutely unnecessary stimulation of the uterus, which can lead to the cracking of the nipples. Preparing nipples for feeding has long been a thing of the past. Preparation should be more moral than physical. Of course, there are physiological reasons for the lack of milk due to illness or injury. But most often the lack of breast milk or its complete absence during the period of feeding is caused by psychology. It is necessary to tune in advance for breastfeeding, and everything will be fine!
Is it painful to breastfeed?
It hurts as a result of improper attachment to the chest. If the left shoe is worn on the right foot, and the right one is on the left, it will also hurt. With the right application, when the child captures the areola (the parasol), the pain occurs only in the first seconds within 10-15 days. With cracks in the nipples, air baths and pharmaceutical preparations, from sea buckthorn oil to "solkoseril" ointment, will help. And if we are talking about pain after teething, when the baby learns to bite, then here is the question of education. After all, he can not only bite the breast, but also other parts of the body of mother or older children, if any in the house there.
Do I need to get up at night for breastfeeding?
All the way around - you have to get up at night if you do not breast-feed. After all, we must prepare the mixture, make sure that it is not too hot and not too cold, and sterilize the bottles in the evening. Breast is always with you, milk is sterile and the right temperature. You do not need to wake your husband to hold a screaming child while you are preparing the mixture, or vice versa.
If you organize a joint sleep of mother and child (which is physiological and recommended by specialists), then in a month or two night feeding will become such an established process that in the morning you will not remember how many times the baby woke up at night and woke up at all. If, for some reason, you do not fit a joint dream, you can move the baby cot to yours, adjust the height of the bed to one level and remove a few twigs from the cot. During feeding, you simply move closer to the child, and do not have to get up.
Can I be free when I breastfeed?
When breastfeeding, the period of freedom is much greater than with artificial feeding. With a child it is much easier to move around the city, and make long trips. After all, the breast is always "at hand." And with the mixes you have a lot of tinkering, you need the conditions for their preparation and disinfection. A bottle of milk can be trivial to lose, that with the breast in principle is not possible:).
For the convenience of moving to help: slings, backpacks, strollers and car seats. With the help of a sling or shawl, you can imperceptibly feed the child in a public place. And in the children's polyclinic there is a specially assigned room for this. If you need to go to work or study, the breast will replace the expressed milk. Do not necessarily express it on the same day. Frozen milk at a temperature of -18 degrees can be stored for up to 6 months.
Mastitis.
Breastfeeding is the best prevention of breast cancer and various hormonal disorders in the work of the female body. To avoid mastitis, do not do it without need, that is, after each feeding. If, say, a baby in the hospital was taken to a dropper or other lengthy procedures, then you need to express every 3 hours and wear your baby's milk, warning the medical staff not to be fed it with a mixture.
Will the breasts become ugly?
If the breast did not differ with special beauty before feeding, then, of course, it will not add breastfeeding to her. First of all, you have gymnastics in your arsenal. Secondly, the large breasts will hang all the same with age, and the owners of a small breast-feeding will give the opportunity to feel themselves a pussy-breasted beauty, as the "breast" breast increases in size by 2-3 times.
Is it difficult to wean the child from the breast?
It is not any more difficult than from a bottle and from a nipple. Even easier, because from the chest wean one time, and from the bottle and nipple - twice. Circumstances and traits of the child's character allow one to finish without applying violence to the breast in the second year of life, another - on the third, and someone on the fourth. By the way, the old covenant states that they were breastfed for up to three years, after which they held a big celebration in honor of the fact that the child became an adult and independent.
Why is the period of breastfeeding the best:
1. Good for Mom and Baby. Vitamins and minerals are better absorbed, intestinal microflora is not disturbed.
2. Save time - do not mix.
3. Saving the family budget - do not buy a mixture, bottles, nipples, etc.
4. You can breastfeed at night without getting out of bed.
5. The child is protected from infectious diseases, which my mother has had.
6. Convenient for travel and travel - "I carry my everything with me."
7. Mom during the feeding "recharges" the child with her energy, gives him his positive emotions, his love for him, his inner world. No wonder in the old days they said: "he absorbed it with the milk of his mother."
8. Breastfeeding is a great pleasure, both physically and emotionally. And depending on the age of the child, this joy, this pleasure is modified. This can be compared with the seasons - white winter, green spring, colorful summer, golden autumn. Each of them is beautiful in its own way. So feeding a newborn, three-month, six-month, one-year-old, one and a half-year-old child brings different feelings. Moreover, each kid sucks his breast and communicates with his mother during feeding in different ways.
Breastfeeding for mom and baby is as natural as the intimate relationship between husband and wife.