The advantages of breastfeeding.
- Breast milk is adapted to the imperfect system of digestion of a newly born child.
- Milk provides the metabolism of the child, it contains all the substances in the right proportions, in the right quantities and it is well absorbed.
- In addition to its valuable composition, breast milk has unique protective properties that prevent the development of various diseases, such as intestinal, respiratory and other infections.
- Mother's milk does not have germs, it is completely sterile and warm, which makes it easily assimilable.
How to keep milk lactation?
When breastfeeding a child, the psychological mood and nutrition of the mother are of great importance, which affects the arrival of sufficient milk. The mother should be attuned to the fact that she can and wants to be a nursing mother, be sure that the milk will suffice, and it will not be lost.
It is also important for the milk to arrive in sufficient volume to correctly put the baby to the chest and complete its devastation. Young moms sometimes have a decrease in lactation, but do not despair and despair. To restore lactation, you need to give your baby more often, and if he is malnourished or becomes restless, then you need to attach the baby to another breast, and so in turn to both breasts.
What is the recommended feeding with breastfeeding?
As already mentioned, great importance in breastfeeding is the mother's nutrition, especially drinking .
- Before feeding it is useful to drink a glass of any sour milk drink, fruit juice or tea with milk for more milk.
- Drinks and infusions from dill seeds, caraway seeds, anise, carrot juice, and melissa or marjoram teas effectively stimulate lactation.
- It is useful to use decoctions of herbs: yarrow, motherwort, nettle leaves, valerian root, horsetail hoppers. To prepare the broth you need 2-3 tablespoons of herbal collection pour 1 liter of boiling water and insist in a thermos. Decoction of drinking evenly throughout the day.
It is necessary to comply with the drinking regimen . Breastfeeding mothers during the feeding of the baby need to drink liquids 0.8-1l more than in the usual state. Conversely, excessive use of liquid more than this rate can affect the reduction of lactation.
Currently, protein and mineral products are on sale , which specifically stimulate the production of milk : Femilak, Mamina Kasha, Olimpik, Mama Plus, Enf-Mama. For normal milk production, nursing mothers are very helpful not to worry, to walk in the fresh air, you need to eat a few walnuts a day.
Is it necessary to express milk after feeding?
No matter how tired my mother is, despite the various inconveniences, it is very important to decant all milk from the breast every day and night, after every feeding, if more milk is produced than necessary for feeding the baby. It is also necessary to express the milk in order for the body to produce a new portion of a valuable product. Expressed milk is stored in the refrigerator for one day. It can be used as needed for supplementary feeding, heated in a water bath.
Preparations for increasing lactation.
It is recommended to take nicotinic acid 45 mg every 10-15 minutes before feeding the baby three times a day for two weeks.
It is also useful to take preparations with a vitamin E content of 10-15 mg three times a day, also within two weeks.
You can still breastfeeding mothers to use the hydrolyzate of dry beer yeast . It is necessary to grind the tablets, pour cold water and insist 3-4 hours, then heat until the appearance of fumes. It is recommended to take one teaspoon twice a day during the entire period of feeding the baby. With the help of this drug, the content of protein and fat increases, the quality of breast milk is greatly improved. Milk comes every day at the prescribed rate.
What should I avoid?
If you hear advice - it is useful to drink beer for a larger flow of milk, then do not rush to follow it, because you can only harm the baby's health. The contained alcohol enters the mother's milk and the baby's body is poisoned.
Nursing mothers do not need to abuse onions and garlic . Breast milk acquires from the use of these products an unpleasant and specific smell, so the baby can give up breast.