Breastfeeding moms often wonder, is necessary to give the baby one breast or two per attachment. How to feed your baby from one breast or both per feeding, so he was sated?
In fact, everything depends on the individual needs of lactating women and her baby. It should be remembered that if the breast is emptied frequently and completely, the milk arrives more quickly and in greater numbers. Conversely, the smaller the child eats, the less milk is produced.
Advice on how to alternate breasts for successful breastfeeding
1.If little milk, then feed the baby from both breasts at the same attachment to their complete emptying, starting each time with the other breast. If the milk in excess, alternate the breast feeding, and let one feeding only one breast.
2. Remember that milk is the fatter than its smaller chest. So, if you're a bit fed baby from one breast and replaced it with another, not until the end of emptying, the baby does not get saturated fats and satisfying the necessary milk. Therefore, do not change the chest until her child is not completely emptied.
3. Understand that the milk in the breast is not, can be in two ways: firstly, it has become much easier and you feel that it is empty, and secondly, the baby sucks and swallows a little. It is an opportunity to change the chest.
4.If your breasts of milk are different, the most Put your baby to the breast, where milk is less, to adjust its production.
5. Start each feeding on the other breast: alternation improve lactation. From one breast feeding is possible if there are problems, such as giperlaktatsii, and it can be carried out solely on the recommendation of a specialist. If you only feed from one breast for a long time, it will lead to a different amount of milk in the breasts, one will be larger than the otherAnd it can cause lactostasis.
You will also be useful to know how useful breast milk for the baby.
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