From the first days of pregnancy, the question of breastfeeding is becoming relevant. And almost every future mommy thinks, it is worth breastfeeding or not, and if the answer is positive, then how to prepare breasts to breastfeeding?
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Basic Rules for breast preparation
Now there are a lot of sources where you can take useful information on this topic. But do not forget that the closer to the body of a pregnant woman is the observing gynecologist. Do not be asleep to ask him a lot of questions. Additional information on the preparation of the chest to feed the baby, you can learn from your mother or the "experienced" girlfriends - any experience will be useful in such a situation.
There are 5 basic breast preparation rules that each future mother should know and follow them:
- Clean hands.
- Mandatory massage of nipples.
- Bra.
- Hard towel.
- Air baths.
What actions should be performed?
Each rule of the above has its interpretation, for example:
- Hygiene: The main rule before preparing the chest is to prepare hands. They must be washed with soap, and it is advisable to trim the nails. Nipples - a very gentle body with thin scatters of the skin. Therefore, any microcrack or scratch from long nails can lead not only to painful sensations, but also to serious infection.
- We pay attention to the nipples. There are 3 types of nipples: normal (convex nipple) - if the child is correctly attached to the breast there should be no problems with it. But flat and drawn (in-depth) require more time and patience for feeding. During the breast massation, it is necessary to press on the halo with a latter and index fingers and try to take up the nipple, carefully pulling it away. Over time, he must stretch out and cut a little. You can still use the corrector for the shape of the nipples (but this method may not come to everyone).
- Lower (in particular bra). This kind of underwear plays a big role not only during pregnancy, but also in the daily life of any woman. For some reason, many believe that the tight bra will retain the shape of the chest. This is not true. If a woman has a big breast, and the skin does not have elasticity, no tight leaf will help. And vice versa, if the chest of small sizes, and elastic skin, then even breastfeeding (which many fear) will not spoil it. The bra, starting from the moment the future mother begins to prepare the chest to feed and the next time of feeding the baby must be only from natural materials and necessarily the right size. If he is a tight, milk will have bad permeability, which threatens to be a stagnation, and in the future - inflammation and mastopathy.
- Towel. After mommy adopted water treatments (the chest need to wash only warm water), attention should be paid to the towel to which the chest will be watched. It must be at best cotton. It needs to be neatly massaging movements to wipe the chest, not forgetting about the nipples. You can cut two disks from the terry fabric and put in the bra. This is all done so that the nipples are loaded. If the discs start rubbing, they must be pulled out for a while, let the breast rest.
- Recreation. Everyone needs rest, and women's breasts are no exception. Pregnant must highlight a day for 20 minutes for chest air baths. This will also give the ability to heat the chest. The only rule - with this procedure, cannot be located under the right sunlight.
From the first days of pregnancy, nature is preparing a woman to breastfeeding and breastfeeding. After all, it is not for nothing in the baby, the first reflex is a sucking. And the most important thing in preparing for feeding is to learn how to keep a little miracle and correctly submit him the chest. Feeding is better to do in the first requirement of the baby: the child will be a tongue to irritate the nervous breast receptors, and the milk - more flow. And if the mother does not have a significant decrease in the release of breast milk due to hormonal disorders, it is possible to increase the amount of breast milk without problems.