Don’t stop breastfeeding suddenly. It is best to reduce the number of times the baby sucks milk at night, because the milk secretion is strong at night, and the effect of returning milk will be better at this time.
Once breast milk engorgement occurs, the mother cannot hold it back. She should suck out part of it with her hands or a breast pump until it feels comfortable. Do not empty it, because the principle of milk production is that the more milk is moved out, the more breast milk will be engorged. It is believed that the more the baby needs, the more milk will be produced, making the breasts more engorged and painful.
After pregnancy and childbirth, most pregnant mothers feel that they have experienced the highest level of pain and will have nothing to fear in the future. However, what they did not expect is that weaning after breastfeeding is also a kind of pain. pain. Weaning refers to a transitional process in which a baby who originally relied on breast milk as the only source of nutrition gradually switches to other sources of nutrition to meet the baby's nutritional needs. During this process, the pregnant mother's milk secretion will gradually decrease, but at the same time, during this process, the pregnant mother may also accumulate milk in the breasts because the baby sucks out less milk, causing the pregnant mother to feel unbearable breast swelling and pain.
Under normal circumstances, it is recommended that pregnant mothers use a breast pump to express the milk when they feel unbearable breast swelling and pain to avoid excessive milk accumulation in the breasts. However, the only way to express milk is to not feel breast swelling. It is not recommended to empty the milk based on pain, and pushing back the time of each milking will gradually reduce milk secretion and wean the baby. Some pregnant mothers will also use malt for weaning, and some pregnant mothers have other Weaning methods:
Some pregnant mothers will use the method of decoction of hawthorn in water; some pregnant mothers will go to the hospital to get anti-lactation injections or take anti-lactation medicine; some pregnant mothers will wear clothes that fit well or even slightly tight. Use underwear to suppress the secretion of milk or use cotton pads on the inner pads of underwear to absorb overflowing milk; some pregnant mothers will feed their babies for a short time when the breast pain is unbearable, and use a breast pump to partially suck out the milk. Similarly; some pregnant mothers will also use cold compresses to reduce breast swelling and pain; some pregnant mothers will also reduce the amount of water they drink and drink less soup to reduce milk secretion.
No matter which weaning method is used, pregnant mothers need to do it step by step and not to rush it. Slowly reducing the amount of breastfeeding is an ideal and less painful method, but at the same time, pregnant mothers should pay attention to cleaning and protecting nipples. , to avoid injury and infection.