Often, breastfeeding is interrupted before the time limit, then my mother regrets and mourns because the child no longer eats milk. Milk disappears for various reasons. It happens that the child refuses him because of illness, when the baby gets to the hospital separately from the mother - lactation is not always preserved. Sometimes a child is born very weak and can not suck breast, and the young mother in turn does not know how to hold milk and it gradually goes away. Not every breast can withstand a night break or three-hour intervals, and babies do not always easily move from breast to nipple, and from nipple to chest.
In general, how to be a mother, if the milk is gone or it was not there? And is artificial feeding the only way out?
Of course not! There is another way out - to start all over again. Our body is so unique that there are cases when grandmothers who nurse babies feel tidally or when a baby is breastfed by women who have never given birth. Lactation can be restored. There are examples when there is lactation women who have never become pregnant and have even removed the uterus. Relaxation is the process of restoring the milk.
The most important thing is belief in success .
A study was conducted in which 366 women were questioned, they tried to restore lactation, and half got full breastfeeding in less than one month, another quarter of women came to this in a longer period of time, and the rest - fed the kids mixed. When the baby is less than two months and the cessation of feeding has happened recently, it is easier to restore lactation. There were cases when milk for women appeared for a one-year-old child.
It is important that close people support a young mother and help her in the household. It is necessary to prepare for the fact that the recovery process will take a very long time during the first two weeks.
To be successful, the mom should do that:
- teach the baby to suck his breast, if he can not or does not know how to do it.
- understand why the milk is gone and try to remove the cause.
- stimulate the production of milk.
- Make sure that the baby is well fed during the recovery process.
The most important is a bodily contact
A very important moment of prereleasement is a physical contact with a smile. If your skin touches the baby's skin, then breathing, temperature, heartbeat of the baby will come back to normal, the level of stress hormones will decrease. Moreover, you can not only relieve stress to yourself and your baby, but also stimulate the production of the love hormone and the hormone of motherhood that are responsible for lactation.
When the baby is lying on the mother's breast, he is almost always ready to suck - maybe just now for comfort, but that's what we're trying to achieve.
If the child has never nursed a breast or refused it, he can begin to suckle his breast if he is given to be with his mother nearby - skin-to-skin. The baby, who was only born and lezhitotdyhaet at the mother's breast, most often finds the nipple himself. The instinct of crumbs does not disappear, he just needs to remember what it is.
Mom and the child need to sleep together, so that the breast is always at the disposal of the baby, especially during the early hours and at night - the most important time for lactation.
It's good, if you and your child bathe together wear it more often in kangaroos, have more stroking and caressing. Let the baby fall asleep on your chest.
If the baby started sucking a breast, what to do next?
The best option - when a child can and wants to suck a nipple. Now your task is every 1-2 hours of applying the baby to the breast. Do not wait until the baby starts screaming - this is a very late sign of hunger. Begin to offer the baby a breast, when he pushes the handles, snorts, turns, twists his head. Let him suck his chest not only for food, but also for comfort. The more a baby sucks, the more milk comes.
Make sure that the baby suckles every time for 15-20 minutes. If he first sucked one breast for a while, then another, shift it again to the first and so on in a circle. This will serve as a stimulant for the arrival of milk.
If you will properly apply the baby, then a prolonged feeding will not harm the nipples.
What to do with complementary foods?
Remember that a child should never be hungry, even if you want him to pump milk as soon as possible. If the child screams, he can not take a good breast or even refuse it. If you begin to restrict the child to the Veda, he will become weak and will simply not be able to suck.
Supplement your baby on schedule, just the amount that you give him now, divide into several parts. So it turns out that my mother's breast is always near, puts the baby to bed, calms him, and several times a day also gives supplementation.
Initially, the child will receive all of his meals or a large portion of it from the supplement. But when the milk starts to increase, the supplement will decrease. One day, mom will find that the supplement is not useful at all.
In the process of restoring lactation, do not give the baby a bottle or pacifier, so you will reduce breast sucking.
How to be if the baby is rejected from the chest?
If the child refuses the breast, then it means that the mother herself must restore lactation. Maybe when the breast appears at least a little milk, he will take it, but for now you have to make it tampo. Hormones of love and maternity are allocated at stimulation of a nipple of aureola, therefore to restore a lactemia it is possible it not only by means of sucking the kid, but curing. You can do this with a breast pump and manually. If it is easier for you to use a breast pump, then get a quality option and it is better if it is a double electric. Well stimulates the chest and the usual manual pumping. If you constantly express milk, it can appear after a week, but sometimes it takes much longer. It is necessary to express for 15 minutes and it is desirable that there are 8 strains per day. According to another method of counting, experts say that a day should be expressed about 100 minutes. It is better to express breasts quite often, but for a long time, than quickly and often. If the baby can and wants to do this, then it is not necessary to replace it with a manual shrinkage.
Remember that not all babies are immediately ready to breastfeed. It is important that my mother accustomed him to that.
Where should I start? If the baby is hungry or resists, you do not need to poke his chest in the face, let him first become accustomed to being at the breast all the time. Feed your baby a feed. And constantly press his cheek to his chest. Remember the magic reception - skin-to-skin. Sometimes the baby wakes up interest, when you drip milk from the pipette directly to the nipple. If someone helps you, then it will be more convenient. When the baby is in a good mood, and he is almost not hungry, offer him a breast.
There are also natural stimulants of lactation - these are herbs: cumin, nettle, anise, fenugreek, gazleg, fennel. You can drink such infusions, recipes of which you will find in any book about children up to one year. It is possible to stimulate lactation with medicines that affect the hormones in the maternal body, but before using it, it is necessary to go to a doctor and ask for advice.
To monitor progress and make sure that the baby has enough power, you provide it, it is recommended that you attend a calendar where you will mark and write down:
- Growth and weight gain. Every week, one time to weigh the baby. Its weight should be added to 110-230 grams every week. If your baby is gaining less grams, then let's get more fat.
- Duration and frequency of feeding. Almost all the children need to suck 8-10 times a day.
- The frequency of the stool and the number of wet diapers. Every day a baby should have a minimum of a chair 2 times a day and 6 wet diapers. If the baby is more than 6 weeks, then a more rare stool is a normal phenomenon.
- How does the baby react to breastfeeding? How active is he sucking? Does he like a breastfeed?
- How much do you offer the baby a supplement and how do you do it. So you can track the increase in the volume of milk and reduce the amount of complementary foods.
Mom who tried to restore lactation, in the majority are glad that they did it for their child. They were happy not only because the kids ate their milk again, but also especially close to the intimacy that appears when breastfeeding. If you do not like that your feeding has gone so quickly, try to restore the lactation, maybe this method is for you.