The best thing a woman can give her baby is to breastfeed him. Unfortunately, for some reason, and sometimes, it would seem, without them, breast milk is lost.
How to recover the missing breast milk?
First of all, you need to calm down. The amount of milk produced can sometimes decrease, and the main thing in this period is just a little to revise your diet and diet. It is very important not to stop breastfeeding and not to switch to the mixture.
So, how to increase lactation?
- Correctly and fully eat. This is not about increasing the quantity, but about improving the quality of food.
- Have a warm drink. Drinking a liter of cold juice will not help increase the milk produced, but a cup of hot tea with milk will help necessarily.
- Apply the baby to the breast on first request.
- Postpone all the cases (except for the baby) and have more rest. Sometimes, just to get breast milk, just enough sleep.
How to return lactation, when there is almost no milk left?
Something is more complicated if milk is almost gone or breastfeeding was stopped altogether. In this case, Mom will have to make a lot of effort.
Of course, a hungry child feels bad, screaming himself and others. The simplest thing in this situation seems to be to start lactating. But, having begun to feed the child with a mixture from a bottle, you practically put a cross on further breastfeeding and the chances of getting lactation of breast milk.
The main problem is that a child who tastes food from a bottle loses interest in the maternal breast, from which the milk needs to be "extracted". Therefore, pediatricians recommend that in the case of a decrease in lactation, even the smallest children should be given a lump from a spoon, without stopping applying it to their breasts.
Milk comes exactly as much as the baby eats. The more often you give the baby a breast, the more he sucks, the more milk will appear in the chest for the next feeding.
Sometimes, in particularly difficult cases, to solve the problem of how to return breast milk, can help special medication. However, they should appoint only a doctor.