Baby refuses to breast

Dasha Kvitkova and ex-bachelor Nikita Dobrynin became parents for a little over a month. They had a "hero", whom the happy parents named Leo. Dasha actively shared with subscribers a photo of her pregnancy, childbirth. And now he is no less active in dedicating them to his mother's everyday life. And they, I must say, are not cloudless. Then Dasha was worried about her figure, having taken off in lingerie. Now she had more serious problems - the baby began to refuse to breast.

“I have often heard that children are very cunning and whip everything instantly. But I was shocked when my son, who was not even a month old, began to refuse breast ",

- she wrote on her Instagram.

Here is how it was.

At first, Dasha was burned and stored milk. When she wanted to get some sleep or drive away for an hour / an hour and a half, Nikita took the baby and fed him from a bottle. And this, according to the blogger mom, happened a little over a week.

And so, when Nikita Dobrynin left for work for a few days and left Dasha Kvitkova alone with the baby, a real Armageddon began, according to her.

"A shout to the whole house, bursting with tears and refuses to take his chest",

- Dasha complains.

Whatever she did: she danced and changed clothes. But the baby cried nonstop for 2 hours. This whole saga lasted for several days. Dasha called a breastfeeding consultant and a pediatrician, and they said in two heads that the baby was already used to the bottle and was now lazy to suckle the breast, organizing strikes.

In such a situation, a woman has two options: either completely abandon breastfeeding, which is very undesirable. For example, the World Health Organization recommends feeding an infant for at least 6 months, and optimally up to a year.

The second option is still to fight for lactation. Dasha Kvitkova chose him.

She removed all kinds of bottles and nipples. Experiencing his scandals, I drank soothing drops. The kid did not sleep or eat all day, shouted. But after that, everything went on the mend.

"I insisted on my own, and he gave up",

- says Dasha.

What to do if the baby refuses to breast

With this question, we turned to Tamara Zeynalli, a psychologist, doula and breastfeeding consultant. She told life hacks that will help a woman still insist on her own and return the baby to breastfeeding.

1. During the cry, when the baby "shakes" his rights and demands a bottle, take him into the warm bathroom with him. This will relieve the degree of stress, calm the baby.
2. During the struggle for lactation, and it usually lasts 2-3 days, you can not leave your home anywhere. Use a dim light, strip to the waist and carry the baby so that there is skin-to-skin contact.
3. Babies are well calmed by white noise, it reminds them of the sounds that they heard while in the womb. When your baby starts to fight, demanding a bottle, turn on the hood, vacuum cleaner, hairdryer.
4. Make sure that the baby is properly latching on to the breast so that you do not get hurt. In my practice, there was a case when, due to cracks in the nipples, the mother, in pain, screamed so much during feeding that the baby refused to breastfeed. Therefore, do not tolerate, immediately remove the breast from the baby's mouth. Just don't do it abruptly. Tuck the tip of your little finger into the corner of your child's mouth and he will let her go.

How to properly latch a baby to the breast

1. Place your baby at chest level. Keep it on your left hand if you feed from your right breast. In the palm of your hand will be the shoulders, neck and base of the baby's skull. His belly should be pressed against yours. You should be able to see his ear, shoulder and thigh.
2. Point the nipple towards the baby's nose.

1. Hold your chest with your entire palm underneath. The thumb is opposite the baby's nose, on the border of the areola, the index finger is on the side of the chin, away from the border of the areola. Flatten your chest slightly.
2. Swipe it from the upper lip to the lower lip several times, adjusting to the speed of opening / closing the mouth.
3. Now you need to do 2 actions at the same time: quickly push the child onto the chest and put it in the mouth: he should capture more of the lower areola than the upper one. The areola should get into the mouth first, then the nipple.