What to do if you can’t sleep while breastfeeding

Ways to improve sleeplessness during breastfeeding include rationalizing work and rest schedules, soothing emotions, and seeking medical treatment if necessary. 1. Reasonable work and rest: during breastfeeding, the day and night shift, work and rest disorders may affect the quality of sleep, resulting in insomnia, so mothers can try to try to regular work and rest, to control the time of daytime sleep, go to sleep on time at night, you can seek the help of other family members, to take care of the child at night, to ensure that the mother to rest and recovery. 2. Emotional relief: postpartum due to the pressure of life, role change and other often caused by maternal psychological stress, you can communicate with family and friends, more outdoor walks to relax, if necessary, you can seek the help of a psychiatrist. 3. Medical treatment: breastfeeding women need to be careful with medication, do not recommend the use of sedative drugs, may be through the breast milk caused by the baby ingestion, leading to adverse consequences, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to use safe and reasonable drug therapy. Breastfeeding insomnia is recommended to give priority to improve through life, psychological conditioning, if necessary, need to use drugs under the guidance of a doctor.