If there is no special need, it is generally not recommended to massage your breasts during breastfeeding, as it may induce conditions such as mastitis and affect normal breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding is a special physiological period for women, when estrogen and progesterone levels rise, stimulating the mammary glands to become enlarged. The mammary glands secrete milk, which flows out of the nipple area through the milk ducts. As the mammary glands are relatively floppy at this time.
If breast massage is performed at this time, especially inappropriate massage, it may lead to damage to the breast tissue and may induce mastitis and other lesions to occur. The woman in labor develops symptoms such as breast redness, swelling, pain, and elevated skin temperature, which can seriously affect breastfeeding.
However, if the mother for various reasons appear to milk discharge is not smooth, milk retention breast formation of distended milk. It is necessary for the mother to go back to the hospital for a review, and a professional doctor will perform breast massage and massage to improve the situation of milk retention and milk distention.
Therefore, if the mother does not have a special need, it is not recommended to carry out breast massage, so as to ensure the health of the breasts and reduce the incidence of mammary gland lesions.