Breastfeeding has many benefits, which can be roughly divided into the benefits for the baby and the benefits for the mother. The benefits to the baby are mainly to provide nutrition, promote development, prevent diseases and be conducive to mental health; The benefits to mothers mainly include preventing postpartum hemorrhage, reducing mammary gland hyperplasia, avoiding milk accumulation, reducing the risk of breast-feeding mothers suffering from reproductive system cancer, consuming a certain amount of calories for breastfeeding every day, and also having certain benefits for postpartum slimming. In addition, breastfeeding is more convenient and economical than milk powder feeding.
Breastfeeding has so many benefits, but mothers will also face various problems. As a new mother, I never thought that breastfeeding is so difficult in the early stage, and I have to endure the pain of contractions after delivery, so that the baby can suck the breast, promote milk secretion and enhance the relationship between mother and child. On the one hand, it is the pain of postpartum wound, on the other hand, it is the pain of uterine contraction, but I think all mothers who decided to breastfeed can bear it. After all, that lovely little life is waiting for you.
Postpartum breastfeeding not only has the pain of uterine contraction, but also faces the problems of rising milk quantity, insufficient milk quantity, chapped nipple and mastitis. From my personal experience, experience is the best teacher, but as a novice nanny, I just lack experience. Let me share my breastfeeding experience with you.
When a newborn is born, the amount of milk is very small. In addition, in the early stage of lactation, the mammary duct is not smooth, and the milk is not discharged in time, which leads to the deposition of milk in the breast. Therefore, many treasure mothers will face the problem of rising milk. For a novice nanny, I am really ignorant. After the treasure moms communicate with you and understand the principle of milk secretion, they are no longer at a loss.
Breastfeeding generally begins on the third day after delivery, and the symptoms are more obvious, and some begin to increase from a few days after delivery. Breastfeeding is characterized by chest pain, breast fever and hardening, redness, refusal to press, breast depression, and in a few cases, low fever and lymph node enlargement. Double breasts or unilateral breasts may appear. If there is breast enlargement, it is necessary to clear the mammary duct in time and drain the milk to avoid acute mastitis.
Born with milk on the second day after delivery, and experienced milk increase on the third day. Because the night is the peak of lactation, I was suddenly awakened in my sleep after sucking milk for several hours, and I had a fever of 39 degrees in the morning, which led to mastitis. Because there was a nurse on duty at the Yuezi Center, my temperature dropped to 38 degrees after I poured milk. After taking antipyretics and dandelion granules, the body temperature basically returned to normal.
During the lactation period, we tried various methods of breast care and mastitis and some drugs to reduce some breast injuries caused by breastfeeding, breast pumping with breast pump and infant feeding, which are summarized as follows:
1. Potato chips: Slice, apply plastic wrap to breast to reduce swelling.
2. Ruyi Gold Powder: Apply sesame oil to the breast (avoid areola)
3. Dandelion herb soothing milk
4. Medrol sheep fat
5. Mu Qing's breast patch: relieve chapped nipple and breast pain, and repair breast.
6. Erythromycin eye ointment: anti-inflammatory, relieve chapped nipple.
7. Stir-fried malt barley tea: When drinking water and reducing milk secretion, you can return some milk appropriately. Everyone's physical condition is different, and not everyone can effectively return milk.
8. Promote the recovery of chapped nipple: Kangfuxin liquid and human epidermal growth factor gel.
9. Chinese medicine prescription for returning milk (because there is more milk, I can refer to the Chinese medicine prescription I have drunk)
Boil in 800 ml to 300 ml.
1) 60g of burnt malt, 30g of burnt cereal bud, 20g of dandelion 15g, 20g of burnt hawthorn and 0/0g of bitter orange/kloc-0.
If not, you can try prescription two.
2) 60g of burnt malt, 30g of burnt cereal bud, 20g of dandelion10g, 20g of burnt hawthorn, 0g of burnt medicated leaven10g, and 0g of palm charcoal10g.
Because we must insist on breastfeeding and need to reduce milk appropriately, we take Chinese medicine and barley tea. The effect of traditional Chinese medicine is slow. After drinking Chinese medicine and barley tea for two or three weeks, I feel a little less milk than before and feel much more relaxed. There is no need to suck milk frequently, and the damage to the breast is also reduced.
During this period of postpartum breastfeeding, I really experienced a lot and learned a lot of knowledge and practical experience about breastfeeding. Every mother who insists on breastfeeding is great, and only she knows the sadness and pain. Breast milk is the best natural food for her baby, which can not only improve her immunity, but also prevent various diseases, which is of great benefit to both mother and baby. Therefore, since you have chosen breastfeeding, you must have confidence and spend the most difficult first month, and everything will be fine.
Some people say that behind every promising child, there is a good mother. I quite agree with this sentence. Mother's cultivation and mother's ideological height determine the height of children's future development.
For the baby before the age of one, the mother needs to meet the baby's basic physiological needs in time and fully, fully express her love to the child, establish a good parent-child relationship, let the baby practice the basic sense of security in the surrounding world, and let the baby have full trust in the surrounding world to work and live better.
Being a new mother, I am still groping for progress and growing up with my baby. I also know that to successfully raise a child, we must first understand the child's psychology, know what the baby wants and what the baby needs most. All this is not innate, and we need to constantly learn scientific educational concepts and methods, so as to strive to stand at the commanding heights of life, fully satisfy the baby, correctly guide the baby, and let the baby have a life with both height and height.
Raising children is a kind of practice, and I am willing to practice slowly, so that the baby will grow up safely, healthily and happily!