Long ago the usefulness of breast milk is proved. But not always it is enough. During the periods of laktatsionny crises it is very difficult to continue natural feeding. Young mom needs to understand that there is not enough milk and to take measures for increase in a lactation.
How to understand that the kid has not enough milk
It is necessary to pay attention to a condition of the baby. To see that there is not enough breast milk, about several signs are possible: the baby cries much, almost does not sleep and long sucks a breast. To check whether the child gorges on, use scales. Nurseries can be leased in policlinic. The naked kid is weighed before feeding and right after. In a situation when he eats not enough milk, the mocheisepuskaniye occurs seldom and is concentrated, urine becomes brightly yellow color. At long difficulties with a lactation at the feeding mom her kid grows fat a little within a month. The pediatrician on the next preventive reception will surely pay attention to an insufficient increase.
There is also other sign that the feeding mom does not have breast milk. She does not feel inflows, the breast constantly empty and does not manage to be filled in a break between feedings. When it is a lot of milk dense, heavy, at weak pressing the stream splashes on area around a nipple at once. If all this the woman does not observe, then at her probably a little breast milk.
What to do to increase a lactation
Plentiful hot drink is obligatory for any feeding mom. The best drink for increase in a lactation – hot tea with milk. Whole milk is not recommended to use because of high risk of an allergy and gripes at the baby. It is desirable for circle of hot drink to drink for some time before feeding that milk managed to flow in a breast. There will be enough about 30 minutes for this purpose.
If there is not enough breast milk, it is necessary to put the child on feedings especially often. In this case at all you should not observe 3-4 one-hour break. Some feeding mothers tell that the kid literally "hung" on a breast for hours when to him there was not enough milk. It is normal, such period should be endured. Frequent and long feedings promote increase in a lactation, milk in couple of days will become more. It is especially important to feed much at night. In night-time the hormone regulating a lactation is actively emitted. The more mom puts at night to a breast, the more milk at it is developed next day.
For the aid to the feeding mom special teas for increase in a lactation. They can be bought in pharmacy or supermarket. Not all share opinion on efficiency of this means. But many such teas contain herbs with sedative effect. It helps to calm down in hard time when there is not enough breast milk.
Quiet emotional condition of mother – guarantee of restoration of a lactation in the volume necessary for the kid. And the child will cry less, feeling confidence of the mother. On average the period of laktatsionny crisis when there is not enough milk or it is absent at all, lasts several days, sometimes week. This period drags on in case the woman has a severe stress. For example, not enough milk became at the time of the funeral someone from relatives or the woman's friends. Bright negative experience affects the general condition of mom and her ability to continue breastfeeding. It is not necessary to panic, the lactation most often can be restored.
But there are cases when it is necessary to spend many sincere and physical forces to feed the kid only with breast milk. Then it is better for the feeding mom to think: whether it is really so important to continue to fight for chest feeding or already to enter mix? Sometimes it is more useful to stop such fight for psychological state of mom and to pass to artificial feeding. From breast milk there will be no advantage if the woman with tears at each feeding tries to squeeze out though a little milk, blames himself for its shortage and in every way battles to continue to feed the kid about one year.