The correct breastfeeding does not demand skills of decantation of milk from a breast. The child's food a breast occurs by the principle ""demand - the offer"". But there are situations when decantation of milk nebkhodimo for a number of reasons. Therefore will learn it it is necessary and it is important for any young mom.
It is not necessary to decant milk from a breast without the reason because the child receives from it so much milk how many it is required to it. Decantation is required in case mom has too much milk (risk of developing of mastitis) or she came to work, and decided to leave milk in banks. If the child demands more food, and at mom is not enough, then this procedure will help to adjust a lactation. Weak and premature children cannot suck a breast therefore and in this case decantation will be useful.
It is possible to decant milk manually or the special device which is called a milk pump. To some mothers everything is more convenient and much faster to decant hands. But at shops there are automatic milk pumps which need just to be put to a breast and to wait when the bottle is filled.
Before you decided to decant milk independently, it is necessary to be prepared. Drink a cup of warm tea in 10 minutes prior to decantation, relax. It is possible to wash a breast warm water or to put to it wetted in warm water a towel. Massage the breast hands, passing on it with circular motions. Massage stimulates development of oxytocin – hormone because of which milk is allocated. Do everything tenderly and without hurrying. A good method for inflow of milk is psychological reception. For this purpose it is necessary to think of the kid, to feel his smell, to remember a voice. Children's things in the room will also remind you of it. It is even easier when the child is near. It is possible to give him one breast, and at this time to decant milk in capacity from another. The child – the best stimulator of inflows. Before decantation wash up hands, take a clean can or a bottle under milk. Sit down more conveniently and relax. Then clasp a breast with a palm so that your thumb appeared over an areola, and the rest from below. A thumb slightly press a breast, sending milk to a nipple. The lower part of a palm help, slightly raising and pressing on a breast. All procedure is directed to that the sliding movements of a hand to send milk from different shares of a breast to a nipple. If it is correct to do everything, you will see that milk a stream flows in a bottle. Move a palm on all breast around an areola until milk just begins to drip. After that pass to other breast. If to you it is painful at decantation, so you strongly press a finger on a breast. Try not to wipe skin with fingertips, and to direct tenderly pressing. If at you the hand was tired – change a breast, and then again come back to the first. You should not decant only the top milk, in it it is less than the caloric content. If the stream of milk weakened, try to press on other shares before changing a breast. In order that will learn to decant correctly milk, time is required, but you should not recede. Having gathered experience, it will turn out much quicker. If it is heavy to you to decant manually milk or just there is no time for it, it is possible to use a milk pump. In pharmacies and children's shops a wide choice of this device. It is possible to choose what suits you on finance. To any kind of this device there is a detailed instruction how to decant milk. But there are general requirements to all milk pumps. It is that before the first use it is necessary to wash and sterilize them well details which adjoin to a breast. When using a milk pump it should not be sick or unpleasant to the woman. The breast should not strain, pull or burn down. After use of the device it needs to be washed with soap and to rinse with boiled water. The bottle in which milk is gathered needs to be stored in the fridge. Also you remember if you have cracks on nipples, then use of a milk pump is forbidden. It is possible to store the decanted milk at the room temperature, but no more than 6-8 hours. In the fridge it will remain up to 2-3 days. Also breast milk can be frozen, it is possible to store in such look several weeks.