Sometimes occurs so that various reasons - most often medical character - force the woman to stop breastfeeding. In most cases the doctor insists on the emergency completion of feeding. But the nursing mother usually is morally not ready to it therefore depression and confusion - the most usual reaction. It is sharp to lower or at all it is possible to stop a lactation by means of several ways.
Instruction
1. You remember, the safest is gradual decrease in a lactation. Before complete cessation of development of milk about 2-3 weeks leave. Reduce to a minimum the number of applyings of the baby to a breast (the less often the child stimulates a nipple, the less milk is developed). At the beginning, most often for 2-4 day after excommunication, the breast can be poured, become painful more hotly. Your purpose at this time - relief of unpleasant feelings. You make thrifty use of a breast, you wear well supporting, hard, but not squeezing linen. Be decanted by hands or a milk pump only to sense of relief. Use wrapping or cold compresses (cabbage leaves or a gauze with whey).
2. Accept infusions of mint and a sage on 1-2 glass a day. Intake of diuretics (bearberry, a cowberry leaf, etc.) is also possible.
3. Draw a breast. To reduce amount of breast milk, it is necessary to reduce inflow of blood to mammary glands. For this purpose every time after feeding or decantation draw a breast, i.e. moderately strongly press it to edges. Use elastic bandage or an undershirt from very dense and low-extensible material. Draw only an empty breast. Also you remember: today experts came to a conclusion that this way of the termination of a lactation is followed by the greatest percent of mastitis. Therefore the advantage of this method is not enough, and the risk of complications is very high.
4. Drink more. Strangely enough, researches proved that development of milk decreases at those women who drink more than 2.5 liters of liquid a day. But you remember, drink has to be cool as warm and hot drinks only stimulate inflow of milk.
5. Try to lower, and then at all to stop development of breast milk by means of medicines. But you remember that interruption of a lactation thus is the most extreme exit. And it is necessary to use it only when the sharp termination of natural feeding is really necessary. Take into consideration that similar medicines have the mass of serious side effects (vomiting, nausea, dizziness, a headache, fatigue and even a depression). And also it happens that tablets have the prolonged effect and with the following child complicate a lactation therefore drugs and their dosage to you only the doctor can appoint.