Many people are worried about babies born without milk, anxious to drink milk soup, but do not know that there is a key point after childbirth, is the physiological milk, if not scientifically handled, may lead to serious milk, back milk, and even mastitis.
1. What is physiological milk increase?
Physiological milk increase is the process of the mammary follicles starting to secrete mature milk, which is affected by lactogen and swelling becomes bigger. This is because the breasts store more milk, blood and other body fluids. This is due to more milk, blood and other fluids being stored in the breasts. Mothers who have had frequent intravenous infusions before may experience more swelling.
Physiological milk increase is actually the body’s inevitable physiological preparation for normal lactation, you may feel your breasts swelling and pain, the pain can sometimes reach the armpits, and when severe, both breasts are tight and shiny, and your breasts feel hard like stones, commonly known as stone milk, sometimes even accompanied by a short period of fever and other symptoms, usually the body temperature will not rise above 38.5 degrees (usually only after drinking tonic soup, so it is generally not recommended to drink tonic soup in the first week). If your body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, it is recommended that you seek help from a lactation consultant or doctor immediately.
2.When does physiological milk increase mainly occur?
Usually 2-5 days after delivery (most often 3-4 days). It is also a sign of the onset of the second phase of lactation.
Pregnant mothers can produce colostrum from about 20 weeks of pregnancy, which is the first stage of lactation. At this time of pregnancy, breasts will secrete a kind of yellow transparent colostrum to prepare for future breastfeeding. Some women do not produce colostrum until the end of pregnancy, which is also normal. Within 30-40 hours after giving birth, the amount of milk begins to increase, which is the second stage of lactation; later is the third stage of lactation.
3.How long does physiological milk increase last?
The duration of physiological milk rise varies from person to person, depending on the physical condition of the mother, the duration of physiological milk rise varies, but the longest duration will not exceed 48 hours.
4.Why should I suckle more for physiological milk increase?
The lactation mechanism of lactation phase I and II is different from that of lactation phase III. Lactation in these two phases is dominated by hormones, which means that these two phases will come whether the baby sucks or not.
Numerous clinical observations show that if the baby does not suck or sucks less on the mother’s breast in the first two days, the mother will experience very painful swelling 3-4 days after delivery. And the degree of swelling is directly related to the frequency and length of sucking in the first period.
5, physiological milk rise is not recommended to let the husband help suck!
Some mothers know that letting their babies suck more can relieve the breast rise, and at some point they may ask their husbands to help suck out the milk. In fact, baby sucking and husband sucking strength is not the same, adult oral bacteria can easily lead to nipple infection, not only can not relieve the milk up, but also easy to trigger mastitis.
6, breast period avoid brutal massage.
When the milk is stagnant, the local pressure is high, and edema squeezed into the milk ducts will make it more difficult to discharge milk, if directly in the location of the hard mass vigorously pressed, equivalent to the edema on the tissue and then apply external force. Not only will the milk not drain much, but more importantly, it will cause damage to the breast tissue, lymphatic tissue, skin, etc. by external force. Many mastitis and even septic mastitis are caused by improper vigorous pressing!
7, physiological milk can be hot compresses?
This point is also controversial among experts, and it is recommended not to apply excessive hot compresses, because sometimes it will make the blood vessels congested and swollen instead.
How about hot compresses to be appropriate? It is often difficult for new mothers to grasp the scale. If the new milk produced after the emptying is not done in time, the breast rise will only get worse.
When the milk rises, the reason why the milk rises will cause unbearable pain is because the milk ducts are excessively swollen, red and swollen, at this time, if you apply hot compresses again, it will only make the swelling and pain more serious.
Therefore, it is generally not recommended for mothers to use hot compresses. Unless some deficiency of breast milk, under the guidance of professionals to take hot compresses.
8.What should I do if my milk rises?
To relieve the pain and wait for the recovery of breast blisters is the right way to deal with physiological milk rise.
There are several ways to relieve the pain as follows.
(1) professional massage to relieve, avoid brutal operation, excessive massage; do not press at will.
(2) The baby should suckle once every 1-2.5 hours; if the breast is too hard, use the “reverse pressure softening method”, pushing the milk back from the baby’s breast, softening a “landing place” for the baby to take in, so that the baby can take in deeper and empty the breast effectively. (2) To empty the breast effectively.
(3) lying flat at rest helps the fluid to flow away from the breast by gravity.
(4) the swelling is more important: use the cabbage outside in the hard part, about twenty minutes to change once.
9.Does physiological milk rise happen to everyone?
Many mothers don’t even know what physiological milk rise is. Early contact, early sucking and early opening of the milk can avoid the painful physiological milk rise