The lactation specialist has very high requirements for the technique when inducing lactation. It is not just random kneading that can induce lactation. If you knead randomly, it is very likely to cause the rupture of the breast ducts. So what are the techniques used by lactation specialists to induce lactation?

Common techniques:

Step one: Promote the smoothness of the breast ducts

Method: Use the abdominal surfaces of the thumb, index finger, and middle finger to move back and forth longitudinally along the breast duct. Massage

Step 2: Make the areola and sinus soft

Method: Use your thumb, index finger, and middle finger to perform a 360-degree rotating massage around the areola, and your hands can constantly change directions. . Since the mammary sinuses in the areola area are hard, the massage time needs to be longer.

Step 3: Strengthen the lactation reflex.

Method: Use your thumb, index finger, and middle finger to squeeze from the areola to the nipple. When squeezing, the mother can imagine the baby sucking milk, and imagine the three fingers being massaged as the baby's small mouth for sucking milk.

Special techniques

Step 1: Relieve milk stasis

Method: Support the breast with one hand in a "C" shape, and vibrate the breast slightly, gradually increasing Large vibration amplitude; massage with three fingers of the other hand from the areola to the nipple

Step 2: Reduce the induration of the areola and surrounding tissues.

Method: Place one hand on the outside of the areola, press vertically with the thumb and index finger, and use the other hand to massage according to the course of the breast duct, using the milking method until the areola gradually becomes soft.

Step 3: Improve short, flat and sunken nipples

Method: press and pinch the nipple, and massage the areola and milk ducts at the same time