In the life of each breastfeeding mother, sooner or later comes the moment when she stops breastfeeding her baby for one reason or another (early admission to work or the child is old enough). The method of stopping lactation, each woman chooses depending on the situation, after consulting with a doctor. It can be the termination of putting the baby to the chest, bandaging the chest, taking tablets for the end of lactation. Next, we will consider how to properly bandage the chest and whether it should be done?
Do I need to bandage my chest?
On the question of whether it is necessary to tie up the breast when breastfeeding ceases, it is impossible to answer unequivocally. If a woman does not have a lot of milk, then it is possible to do without stopping the baby from applying to the breast. If there is a lot of milk, then without breast dressing it is difficult to extinguish its production, and it may be necessary to take an additional drug to stop lactation. Thinking about whether to tie a breast, you should know about such complications of this method, like lactostasis and mastitis, because the milk will still arrive in the bandaged chest, while the outflow will be difficult.
How to bandage the breast from milk?
A woman who decided to stop breastfeeding should take the Dostinex pill, which is a hormone and helps stop lactation. You can resort to breast dressing additionally. In this case, it is not worth decanting breast milk, as the additional stimulation of the nipple will only increase the milk stay.
It is very important during this period to sharply reduce the intake of consumed liquid to a minimum, because taking a large volume of fluid will only stimulate the production of breast milk. It is necessary to observe the state of the breast, if it has hardening or condensation, then they should be massaged to avoid stagnation of milk and mastitis.
How many it is necessary to walk with a bandaged chest can not be unequivocally said, because one woman has two days and the other can try to stop lactation for weeks.
Considering this method of stopping lactation, like breast dressing, you can give women a few tips. This method is very ancient, and most doctors do not recommend it, since it can lead to increased body temperature, milk stagnation and mastitis. It is best to exclude attachments to the baby's chest, and if the child is old enough, then the mother can leave it for several days with the father or grandmother. Admission of the hormone drug Dostinex with the abolition of breastfeeding is a good way of painless cessation of lactation.