How best to express breast milk

You can express breastmilk by hand, by means of a breast pump, and also by the "warm bottle" method. Each of these methods has its supporters, so the choice of the most suitable option is carried out exclusively individually. Consider everything in order.


Manually expressed breast milk

Plus, the manual expression of the breast milk is that it does not injure the nipple. How correctly to do this, it is better to ask the doctor in the maternity hospital. You can learn this from the nurse coming to the house. If, however, you decide to learn how to manually express yourself, stick to our simple rules that can facilitate the whole process and make it more comfortable.

To produce manual decantation is most convenient when the chest hangs down. Embrace the chest with your hand in such a way that your thumb rests above the areola, and the index and middle under it. First of all make a few soft and intermittent massaging movements from the base of the chest to the center. If necessary, you can mash the milking passages by pressing them with the pads of your fingers, creating a vibration. Next, you roll your fingers through the milky sinuses, lying deep under the areola, making a move forward and decanting the milk into a prepared container.

Expressing breast milk through a breast pump

The breast pump is very suitable for those women who need to express a large amount of milk. My point of view is this method is very convenient and also painless. Personally for me at one time a breast pump was a savior and a great helper. In the first days after childbirth, when the initial milk was only beginning to appear, the breast very quickly became petrified and heavy. Stretching by the hands gave me incredible pains, and the milk became bigger and bigger, causing physical discomfort. Then relatives in urgent order brought me to the maternity home breast pump. To this day, I can not forget how much comfort he gave me, how I saved the painful sensations. With the help of a milk pump, I quickly coped with the difficulties and calmly continued feeding my baby with the breast.

Today, an unusually wide range of breast pumps is on the market, so it will not be difficult to choose the most suitable for yourself.

Consider the principle of operation, for example, one of the types of manual breast pump. The manual breast pump can be presented in the form of a glass tube with a rubber pear on the tip. The second end of the tube has an expanded base. This is done so that you can easily cover not only the nipple, but also the adjacent part of the female breast. For expressing the milk, air is first released by pressing the pear, then the wide end of the tube tightly surrounds the nasal region and the pear is released. Such action is performed several times. After that, you will see how the breast extends into the tube, and milk flows out of it.

Expressing breast milk using the "warm bottle" method

And, as already noted above, the breastmilk can be expressed by the "warm bottle" method. This method is considered sparing, which takes on a particularly important role in tight nipples and breastfeeding. Consider the principle of this method.

Prepare a bottle with a wide neck with a diameter of at least 3 cm and a volume of 700 ml. Rinse it thoroughly. Next, the bottle is filled with hot water, give it some time to stand and then drain. Then the neck is cooled and immediately applied tightly to the nasal region, so that the bottle tightly closes it. As the vessel cools, the nipple is drawn into the neck and the milk begins to separate. As the flow of milk weakens, the bottle is removed. The procedure is carried out several times until the milk is fully dispersed.

If you need to re-express, exercise it with an interval of 2-3 hours to avoid unnecessarily injuring the chest.

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