Leaking milk from nursing mothers: 5 solutions to the problem
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During lactation milk just splashing fountain so that the child choking. After feeding milk leaking from the breast, than delivers mum who has a child on his chest, a lot of trouble. How to proceed?
Greatly pours milk from one breast or both. Common situation? Can it have any influence, or is it for the whole period of feeding the baby to a year or even two years? Yes, my mother a lot of trouble, and here is one more was added.
Influence is difficult enough, but there are also comforting news - this situation is not good.
Leakage of milk during feeding
Leakage of milk during breastfeeding - it's a characteristic chest someone leaks it is extremely abundant, someone just by a couple of drops. And there are women whose milk is not flowing. And with the amount of milk, this feature is not connected, it is explained by the anatomy of the breast.
As the milk feeding period usually begins to leak less - most moms say it's somewhere to half a year of baby's life (though, thinking about it again at sufficiently large intervals between attachment). But sometimes it continues even in the second year of feeding.
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How to cope with milk Dribble
That is a purely physical way to deal with the Dribble:
- Sensing that the tide has gone, press the nipple towards the chest and hold so for about a minute, and then release it. Usually this is enough to stream broke milk.
- Toddler periodically hold a column so that it can breathe and not choke, and if necessary - belch.
- You fit posture for feeding, when you lie on your back, and the baby lying on top of you and suckles. Contraindicated feeding posture where you are overhanging or leaning over the baby (until a strong flow of milk from the breasts will not stop).
- Sometimes the leak is stopped after a course of massage or treatment to the osteopath - if your city has such specialists, try to contact them.
- From physical discomfort with wet dress or jacket you save a special chest pads. Stock up on them. Use them until the milk stops leak. As a rule, it is up to six months with the baby. It grows, will drink more milk, and excess leakage is stopped itself.
Also you will be interested to read this: in one feeding right to give one breast or two: meets Dr. Komarovsky
