Here is a picture of an inverted nipple, downloaded from the Internet. How do we correct nipple invagination? Doing the “cross exercise” can help correct nipple invagination! It’s like these four arrows. Use two fingers to pull the skin at the root of the areola outward along the arrows, and then change the angle and pull outward along the arrows in the corresponding direction. Then pull the nipple outward. Most of the nipples that are not too badly invaginated will be able to bulge out. Once again, it is clear that the baby is not sucking only the nipple, but most of the areola must be taken into the mouth in order to compress the breast sinus and “wrap” the milk out. So mothers should have confidence! Some of the more serious cases of invagination should be corrected before pregnancy. The nipple is drawn out by negative pressure. The common ones are nipple corrector, which can be bought in mother and baby stores. Or such nipple pulling caps, which need to be attached to the head end of a 5ml syringe to pull the nipple out by suction. If the mother’s nipples are too stubborn to be stretched out by the correction, you can buy such nipple shields or breast shields that can be fastened to the mother’s nipples and the baby can still suck on the breast milk by sucking on such silicone nipples. Just be careful to sterilize it before using it. The mother should always hold the shield to prevent the baby from rubbing it off. For periods when mom’s nipples are cracked you can also use a nipple shield to ease the pain in mom’s nipples! Wait until the mother’s nipple wound heals and then continue to eat the mother’s nipple. It is not recommended to use breast shields or nipple shields for long periods of time. Remember? How to deal with cracked nipples? Squeeze out a drop of breast milk and apply it to the nipple after each nursing session. The natural antibacterial ingredients in breast milk will help the wound to heal as soon as possible. As the baby sucks more and more intensely gradually, the mother’s nipples will no longer shrink will go. What are the causes of nipple indentation? One of the important reasons is that when the mother was a child, she had to milk her child to prevent her milk from coming out in the future because of a bad rural practice. But after a lot of research in modern medicine, it is confirmed that it is better to let nature take its course and not to milk the teats, so that the breasts can develop normally during adolescence and breastfeeding can be normal. In the newborn care course, we also emphasize that you must not express the teats of newborns. Otherwise, pneumonia may develop and cause serious infections.