Pain in the nipples
It is believed that if the nurse's nipples hurt while breastfeeding the baby is a sign of improper attachment. In most cases this is so. However, there are women with supersensitive skin, which even when properly applied in the first days or weeks of feeding can be painful. This is due to the new load on the skin of the nipple and areola, it takes time for adaptation, provided that the application is still correct. But let's first clarify what it is. With the right application, the mother actively sends her nipple and a large part of the areola to the baby's wide open mouth. The crumb captures the chest, and when it releases it. The nipple of the mother may look elongated, like an even cylinder, without slips and jams. The skin is not injured, the color of the nipple does not change (it remains the same as the areola). How to ease the pain that has arisen until the correct application is made? Choose the right posture for feeding. For example, the posture of lying often leads to improper application, since the mobility of the mother is limited. It is more convenient for training a deep attachment to feed sitting or standing, so you can use both hands. If you have an episiotomy in the labor (a perineal incision), then it will be convenient and not painful for you to sit between two stiff chairs, so that the perineal region remains on the weight between them.
Feed the baby for a short time, do not allow the crumb to "hang" at the chest for a long time.If you will feed the baby every 1.5-2 hours, but 5-10 minutes, it will greatly facilitate your life and possibly prevent injury to the nipples. correctly pick up your baby's chest from the baby: put your finger in the corner of the baby's mouth (do not think about washing hands, I think, it's not necessary), unhook the gums and only then release the nipple and areola. The load on the nipples will be halved. With feeding, change for the better, go on feeding from one breast to one feeding. During the feeding session, try not to focus your attention on pains, find an opportunity to distract yourself .For this, have your favorite book at hand, watch movies, talk on the phone with your friends. If you have already finished feeding the crumb, and the baby wants still and can not fall asleep without a breast, it is quite possible to get sick on the pens.The most important thing is to believe that the baby is able to sleep without sucking your breast. Yes, at first the baby will whine. But energetic jiggling, coupled with a lullaby, will help the baby calm down and sink into sleep. After the child has fallen asleep, necessarily grease nipples with healing creams (Purilan, Bepanten, Solkoseril, etc.). If you are swollen or sick with areoles, use cold compresses for treatment, you can even apply ice for a short while (for 10-15 minutes several times a day). Air baths for the chest will be useful.
Chest pain
In the first days, while the breast produces, very little colostrum, it is soft. And on day 3-5, the colostrum begins to change to the first transitional milk. A feeling of fullness, bursting and soreness can appear and increase, the chest becomes full and tight, increases in volume. Some mothers, frightened by such rapid changes in the mammary glands, resort to decanting. But most often in the first hours of arrival of milk, the breasts practically can not be expressed. Do not panic and do not call a nurse to help you rasstedila your breasts. Assistant will start massaging the breasts, literally "squeezing" her, which will cause more pain to the wet nurse.If you express the milk in large quantities, it will provoke the mother's body to produce more and more milk, thus the problem of breast fullness becomes chronic. lactation - "demand generates a proposal" - and at the time of the active rush of milk is often applied to the baby's breast. However, do not expect that the breast will be immediately soft. Mama's task is to endure, wait and remain calm. Usually the next day the situation begins to change, lactation comes back to normal, and the feeling of fullness of the breast becomes more tolerable.
Muscle pain
Muscle pain can also accompany a nursing mother in the first days or even weeks. This happens for various reasons. With a painful attachment, my mother clamps, strains her shoulder, her back and feels a pain in her muscles after a couple of days. Therefore it is very important to get comfortable for feeding as much as possible, to think it through. If the mother feeds sitting, it is important that she can lean on something, so that the back is relaxed. Under the kid it is better to lay a pillow so that the mother does not need to strain her hands further, holding it. Listen to your feelings at the moment of applying and feeding the baby, watch where you are clenching, and by strong-willed effort, relax these blocks. All the difficulties associated with organizing proper breastfeeding are solved. The main thing for the mother is not to lose patience and hope, and her relatives - to be attentive to Mom, to help and encourage her. Usually 3-4 weeks after birth, everything falls into place, lactation is stabilized, the skills of proper application are honed. Life is becoming more predictable and settled.