Without preparation of a breast for feeding such negative consequences as the cracked skin on nipples can appear. It is followed by pain, bloody allocations, and the child experiences difficulties with capture of a nipple. To avoid such situations, it is necessary to take care even during pregnancy of some important points.
At pregnancy the form and the size of a breast change. It is connected with hormonal changes which proceed in order that future mother could give to the child all necessary nutrients.
Preliminary preparation before childbirth will help to avoid such investigations as the cracked nipples, pain, problems with amount of milk. Preparation will allow to simplify process from the first day of feeding, and to begin it better from fifth month of pregnancy.
It is possible to offer several techniques:
- Physical exercises. Yes, even the sport, but absolutely not heavy is shown to future mothers. Cultivation of straight lines or the bent hands aside, their alternation will help to strengthen a thorax up-down. And in spite of the fact that in operating time only muscles strain, glands will better develop too, nipples will become a little softer thanks to more active rush of blood.
- Massage of nipples. The areola needs to be stretched, massed, moderately reasonable to squeeze, without bringing to pain. It is also turned. Duration of one approach – 1 minute. One approach is allocated for each type of exercise. It will help to make tissue of more elastic. After the birth of the kid of a pacifier will not crack.
- Use rough fabric for massage of a breast. It will help to maintain elasticity of skin and also will prepare it for safe stretching.
- That the gentle integument of nipples was not overdried, during pregnancy last months do not soap them at all. Soap contains a large amount of the sulfates which are responsible for foaming. These substances are in all foam cosmetics – shower gels, shampoos, srubs.
- To remove sensitivity from nipples, it is possible to do lotions. For this purpose it is enough to use the usual tissue soaked with herbal tea. Lotions do not hold more than five minutes. Oak bark will be suitable for this purpose. It can be used before childbirth several times a day.
- Douche by cool water – very risky method, but if future mom has a strong immunity, then it is necessary by the way. It is possible to alternate cool water to cold, warm, further to repeat change of temperature again.
It is recommended to check a shape of a nipple during pregnancy. That it was convenient to child to take a breast, he has to be extended. If it is flat, the kid can feel discomfort and hurt mom. The problem can be that the shape of nipples changes at different stages of pregnancy.
To achieve the extended form, buy special devices for adjustment in pharmacy. They are inexpensive, and their use simple. After the child's birth spotters it is not necessary to throw out – prior to feeding they are put on a breast for 15 minutes.