How much do you know about breastfeeding?

  The benefits of breastfeeding are self-evident, but what to do to increase the success rate of breastfeeding is still an important proposition. To achieve successful breastfeeding, adequate breast milk is the first step, followed by the correct posture and feeding method.  First of all, we need to understand the factors that affect the production of breast milk: 1, the mother’s good mood and self-confidence, is the key to produce breast milk; maternal general in the birth of a newborn 48 to 72 hours most can feel the swelling of the breast, this time is the result of the action of prolactin. The production of hormones is still very subtle, what we know now is that the baby’s suckling and the mother’s good state of mind is very important, if the mother is concerned about the impact of breastfeeding on her body shape or can not stand the baby and her biological clock conflict and become bored, most of the body will be very cooperative to reduce the secretion of prolactin, until no secretion of breast milk. Before the invention of infant formula, there was rarely a lack of breast milk, because in this case, mothers had no choice, so they were able to be free of distractions, while modern mothers can easily give up exclusive breastfeeding when they see that their children can suck a constant stream of formula milk and no longer rely on their own occasional breast milk. Fujian Maternal and Child Health Hospital neonatal department Lin Yunfeng 2, the baby’s sucking and timely emptying of milk is the best stimulus for the mother to secrete milk; now many maternity homes, including maternity schools, will tell the mother and baby in the same room, to suck early. Lactation is magical, it can secrete colostrum containing sufficient immune substances in the early stages of the newborn, and it will also secrete the corresponding amount of breast milk according to the amount of infants sucking, so breastfed infants should not worry at all about their children becoming obese.  In fact, the amount of breast milk produced each time is not fixed, so there is no need to feed the baby for 2 or a few hours, if the baby is sleeping, there is no need to disturb it, and it is easy for the mother to master her child’s habits, and this habit can be adjusted. There are also mothers who cannot breastfeed their babies in the middle of the night because they have to go to work.  If you can’t start breastfeeding immediately after birth because your baby is sick or for any other reason, you don’t have to be discouraged. If you want to breastfeed after a month or two, you have to cooperate with breast milk and formula feeding, now the nurses in the hospital will tell parents to try to suck the baby’s breast milk, if the baby still cries, breast milk is not enough then add formula, in fact, this is also very methodical, otherwise the baby will be artificially tired of sucking breast milk.  Many parents are afraid that their children do not eat enough, once they see that the baby is still crying after eating breast milk or not sleeping at all, they think that the breast milk is not enough, and immediately give the baby milk powder, but this way for a period of time the baby is eating the bottle without effort, and do not want to suck the breast milk hard, this way the mother’s stimulation is less and less, the breast milk will be less and less, so when you see such a situation parents should look at the baby The reason for the crying, as much as possible, when the mother feels that breast milk is sufficient to give a few meals to let the baby completely sucking breast milk, or not sucking babies do not immediately give formula to eat, you can play with them first for a while, or eat some water, separated by half an hour or an hour is better.  3, adequate and balanced nutrition is the basis of lactation, the consumption of lactating mothers is very large, if the mother usually has no physical labor, at least 1.5 times the amount of nutritional intake, a balanced diet is to include grains, vegetables, fruits, beans, milk, meat, aquatic products, eggs and other kinds of food, should be rich and diverse, the Chinese tradition has “Once a lactating mother hardly ate fresh fruits and vegetables inside the month and found that she was bleeding every day after brushing her teeth, and thought she had some blood disease and was nervous, but the symptoms were gone when she supplemented with fresh fruits and vegetables.  It was the lack of vitamin C caused by not eating fresh fruits and vegetables that caused the bleeding, and the mother who gave birth to her baby was breastfeeding, but before the baby was full term, she had eczema all over her face, crying all day because of itching, scratching her face and applying ointment, but it still grew quickly. It is possible that the allergy was caused by too many allergenic substances through breast milk, but later they changed to eating 1 or 2 eggs and the eczema slowly disappeared. The traditional Chinese carp or pig’s foot stew still has a certain role in promoting milk.  There are several misconceptions to know: 1, the cesarean section of breast milk production is less: breast milk production is not related to the normal birth or cesarean section, but now it is true that the success rate of breastfeeding mothers of cesarean section is lower, there is a reason, the cesarean section of the mother in the postpartum wound pain and bloating before exhaustion will affect the good mood and can not facilitate the sucking of breast milk, no baby sucking stimulation of breast milk will After that, parents will not be able to resist giving the baby enough milk powder when they see the baby crying with hunger, and slowly the baby will not like to suck the breast milk.  In fact, caesarean section can also be done early feeding, feeding on demand, because the nature of the baby will suck, even if the mother can not move because of the pain of the wound, you can let family members hold the baby lying on the mother sucking, this sucking even if there is no milk out of the mother and child is good comfort, but also can promote the mother’s uterus rejuvenation, and 5 to 6 hours after the caesarean section, the mother can turn over, and there is even that As long as the mother is able to turn over, she should be able to breastfeed well. If the baby is not sucking well and has to be fed with milk powder, it is important to note that the mother’s breast must be sucked well, not artificially make the baby tired of sucking on the nipple.  2, breastfeeding has a negative impact on the shape of the breasts and body shape: Now there are many women who hold this view, breast sagging, flabby should be mainly related to the individual’s physique, after all, there is the production of multiple babies are breastfed still firm breasts, there is no nursing baby but the shape of many changes in women, so this view is not based on science, now there is a basis for not The incidence of breast cancer and gynecological tumors is much higher in breast-fed women than in breast-fed women. If mothers are unable to guarantee exclusive breastfeeding, it is best to ensure 4 months of breastfeeding, at least until the baby sucks the first 7 days of colostrum.  3, the breast of the small most breast milk less: this idea is very much taken for granted, if this is the case, that most of the oriental babies are going to starve, it is unimaginable. In fact, in the first 4 months of breastfeeding without adding complementary foods, as long as you can produce 100ml of milk in a feeding, it is enough for the baby to eat, that is, one side of the breast as long as you can produce 50ml of breast milk is enough, I think the small breast can hold 50ml of milk.