Mother Clove said: Breast milk is the best and most precious nutritional gift for the newborn baby. However, on the way to insist on breast-feeding, there are always various suggestions under the banner of “for hello” and “for the good of the child”.
After delivery, I carried my daughter to my chest and began to practice nursing. The earlier the mother and the child contact after delivery, the earlier the child sucks the breast, the better.
If it is a natural mother, try to hold the child in her arms and let him suck nipples as soon as he is born. The sucking reflex is strongest in the 20-30 minutes after birth. In the first hour after birth, most babies are ready to eat their mother’s milk in a hurry. Don’t miss this golden time.
Cesarean section mothers can also finish these lessons in bed with the help of their families.
It is good for both the baby and the mother to let the child eat milk as soon as possible. Baby sucking nipples is conducive to stimulating the mother to produce oxytocin, which is the best way to promote uterine contraction, reduce postpartum hemorrhage and help the uterus recover, instead of eating motherwort and drinking soup cooked by various precious traditional Chinese medicines.
Myth 1: Colostrum Should Be Squeezed Out
When the child’s grandmother saw that I was going to nurse, she hurriedly came over to stop me: “the milk just coming down cannot be eaten by the child, it is dirty and has to be squeezed out.”
I understood the reason of [colostrum competition gold] when I was studying in medical university, and hurriedly said: “not dirty, colostrum should be fed to children as much as possible. Although the quantity is not large, it is full of dry goods.”
[You haven’t fed the child, don’t understand, this is called gray milk in our hometown, to squeeze and throw away. Just like running water, this time you nurse, the pipe has never been drained through, must first put dirty water.] Grandma still insisted.
Grandma’s metaphor is really vivid, but there is no scientific reason. In her eyes, I am not the legendary great cow, but the water supply pipe that has not been dredged for a long time and has rusted and hung with ash.
Correct approach: Open milk as soon as possible and feed colostrum to the baby as much as possible.
Myth 2: Baby’s Breast Should Be Squeezed
Not only do you have to squeeze out the milk you just came down, Girls have to squeeze their breasts, Otherwise, when I grow up in the future, I will be a pair of blind tits and will not be able to nurse her children. I squeezed my two daughters myself. Don’t say, I can really squeeze out some milk. They are yellow and thick. After squeezing, their tits grow very well. Our two granddaughters have eaten milk for more than two years and are in good health.]
No matter boys or girls, because in the mother’s belly when affected by the estrogen in the mother’s body, after birth will more or less show the physiological phenomenon of breast swelling, some newborn baby girls will also have a small amount of vaginal bleeding similar to menstruation. This is normal, don’t be afraid, don’t need to deal with, don’t need to squeeze.
After the child is born, the influence of estrogen disappears quickly, breast swelling subsides naturally, and vaginal bleeding stops naturally.
The older generation squeezed the breast of the newborn, saying that it was to prevent the nipple of the girl from sinking in as an adult. This has no scientific basis. On the contrary, it may cause damage to young tissues and inflammation of the newborn’s breast due to excessive squeezing.
Correct approach: Don’t be afraid, don’t need to deal with, don’t need to squeeze the baby’s breast.
Myth 3: Clean with sterilized wet wipes before lactation
Grandma saw that I insisted on nursing and stopped insisting. She handed over a disinfection wipe and motioned me to wipe my breasts and nipples.
I said no, just wipe with a warm towel. Nursing is a common people’s life, not a doctor’s operation, and disinfection is not required.
Grandma muttered, “Your doctors all like to be clean. Is it not good to have what for disinfection?” The child is small and has poor resistance. Be careful of diarrhea.]
In fact, to raise children, one must first give up all kinds of cleanliness and fake cleanliness in life. Children cannot live in a vacuum.
From the sterile environment of the uterus to the outside world of flowers, when the child sucks his mother’s breast, he first eats aerobic bacteria that need oxygen to survive on his mother’s nipple, then sucks in the second, eats anaerobic bacteria that can survive without oxygen hidden in the deep milk tube, and then continues to work hard to eat milk.
Don’t dislike these bacteria. Normal intestinal flora is a huge kingdom of bacteria. They will not only not harm children, but also help children digest and absorb breast milk, promote the maturity of immune system and prevent various allergic diseases.
The first sip of milk the mother gives the child is not so much a food ration as a transmission of bacteria. Before feeding the child milk, the mother has thought of helping him to build a gastrointestinal environment that can better digest and absorb milk.
Correct Method: Before breast-feeding, just wipe your breasts with a warm towel.
Myth 4: Mothers with small breasts have no milk,
I didn’t argue with Grandma, but saw the baby’s mouth to find food, sent the whole areola into her mouth, and fed the milk with practical actions. The little fellow was really brilliant and ate with his nipple in one bite.
The child is really amazing. She will eat it when she is born. However, after two sips, she did not seem to have eaten anything from what. She grinned and burst into tears.
Grandma hurriedly carried the child over and said heartily, “Oh, my God!” My mother’s breast is small and flat. At first glance, there is no milk in it. What can’t eat it. It’s just deceiving us. The baby stopped crying and Grandma hugged it.]
In Grandma’s eyes, some women are born without milk, which is the most common misconception of breast feeding.
In fact, every woman is a natural cow, and milk comes out naturally when her baby falls to the ground. Unless a woman has undergone some damaging surgery on her breasts, received some special treatment or has some diseases, basically everyone can have milk.
Many parturients were scolded by their mother-in-law and felt guilty that they were not big enough because they could not produce abundant milk immediately after delivery and could not lift their heads.
In fact, the big chest is not so mysterious. From an anatomical point of view, it is just more bright yellow adipose tissue, while the breast tissue that is really responsible for milk production inside is the same for all women.
Breast milk depends on the mood of maternal love, the hormones that produce milk, the acinus and ducts in breast tissue, and the frequent sucking of the child. Flat-breasted mothers need not feel inferior. We do not lack any of these four factors. What cannot feed our children? In the old society without milk powder, did our children starve to death when they were born?
Correct approach: Small-breasted mothers can also rest assured that the amount of milk has nothing to do with the size of their breasts.
Myth 5: If you have less milk after delivery, you have to feed milk powder.
[Your milk is definitely not enough, hurry to feed some milk powder, don’t starve the child. I personally feed the older three children, which has a better say than you, an obstetrician and gynecologist.]
In the face of the medical doctor’s daughter-in-law, Grandma finally raised her pride and raised her eyebrows once.
Grandma is not bragging. In an era of extreme material shortage, she did raise three children with sweet milk. However, I am now in a special stage of secreting colostrum just after delivery, and the small amount is the characteristic of colostrum.
Colostrum is milk secreted 7 days after delivery. The quantity is small and the color is yellow. Fortunately, the newborn needs not much. The stomach of the newborn baby is only the size of a glass marble, with a capacity of only a few milliliters, and it is enough to eat a little milk every time. Seven days after birth, the baby’s stomach is getting bigger little by little, and his appetite is gradually increasing. Mother’s milk naturally transits into mature milk, and the amount of milk increases accordingly. Our body is so smart!
Correct approach: It is normal to have less milk after delivery, enough for the baby to eat, and there is no need to feed extra milk powder.
Myth 6: Always feel that children do not have enough to eat,
The new mother is most afraid of her children not having enough to eat when she goes on the road.
Sometimes, you can only suck out more than ten milliliters of milk with a breast pump, and you think dejectedly, how can this output be enough for children? But in fact, when feeding in person, the child may eat much more milk than this.
You know, not all milk is produced well in advance, it exists in the breast waiting for the child to eat. Some of the milk is produced while the child is nursing. No matter how advanced the breast pump is, it cannot compare with the sucking ability of the child.
Correct Approach: Whether the mother’s milk is sufficient or not, the child has the most say.
Children eat not full, a look at the spirit, two look at diapers, three look at weight gain. Children have satisfaction after eating milk, or happy play or sleep soundly, change 6 ~ 8 times a day very wet diapers, defecate 2 ~ 5 times, hold in the arms feel that he is getting longer and heavier day by day, eyes more and more content, skin elasticity, small fresh meat strong, just go.
Myth 7: Too Superstitious [Standard]
Many mothers have done their homework and read many parenting books for their children. Once they find that the baby’s situation is slightly different from what the book says, they are worried: is there something wrong with my baby? Are you sick?
In fact, children’s appetite is naturally different, The speed of suckling is fast and slow, and the hunger and satiety before each suckling are different, which will affect the time and speed of each suckling. Moreover, every child is unique. Some children can’t wait until they eat, and they even wolf down. Some children just dally, slowly, whine, eat and sleep.
No one has the right to stipulate how long a child must be nursing, feel your child attentively, and try to adjust the pace between oneself and the child. In the end, every mother can find her own rhythm.
Don’t compare with other people’s children, and don’t compare with the dry and stiff data in the book. What is written in the book is the average data and normal situation obtained after counting many children, and the rhythm that belongs exclusively to you and your children is the most perfect rhythm.
Correct approach: Let nature take its course and find the exclusive feeding rhythm between you and your baby.
Myth 8: Additional Feed for Babies
I gave the baby to my grandmother and took a nap for a while. When I woke up, my husband quietly told me that after Grandma hugged the child, she even said that the child was not full and had to feed the baby some milk powder while I was asleep. Fortunately, I didn’t buy milk powder in advance, and Grandma didn’t find it, so she was willing to give up.
In fact, as long as breast-feeding is successful, the child does not need milk powder at all and he does not even need extra water within 4-6 months after delivery.
Breast milk is smart. For newborn babies, it is responsible for everything. It has dry goods and moisture. Its composition ratio will change continuously with the growth of the child. With the change of seasons and weather, the moisture content will be adjusted, which fully meets the needs of the baby.
The baby is hungry and the mother feeds the baby. The baby is thirsty and the mother feeds the baby. Babies are bored, afraid of loneliness, empty and cold, The mother does it all by hugging, caressing and nursing, and does not need to use the bottle to feed extra water, fruit juice or vegetable juice at all. These additives not only add to the picture, but also even a little extra food in the bottle to feed the baby, will affect the baby’s sucking on the nipples, thus affecting the secretion of milk.
In addition, don’t give the baby to feed the so-called body building, dispelling wind and cold, disease treatment disease-free body building traditional Chinese medicine soup. Healthy children do not need to use these things to protect health, some medicinal materials may also cause liver and kidney injury due to pesticide residues, heavy metals exceeding the standard and their own toxic and side effects.
Correct approach: It is good to exclusively breastfeed the baby 4 ~ 6 months ago.
Summary
Breastfeeding is good, but breastfeeding was difficult at the beginning of its establishment. There are many reasons for failure, and resistance even comes from those closest to it.
Breastfeeding basically follows the principle of balance between supply and demand. If the child is fed milk powder halfway, the mother’s nipples will lose the chance to be sucked. The brain thinks that the baby does not need milk, and will instruct the breast to stop work, thus forming a vicious circle. The more milk powder is eaten, the less milk the mother has.
How much good milk in this world has been suppressed alive in this way, in the name of family affection and love, and under the banner of being good for hello and your children.
Warm breast milk and gentle caress are the best gifts a mother gives to a newborn baby. Although my hands are tied with infusion needles, my feet cannot move due to anesthesia, my bladder is inserted with a catheter, and my uterus is still bleeding, a new mother’s heart can’t wait to begin to take care of and give.
This feeling is very wonderful. Maternal generate is like flowers blooming in the dark night, like love sprouting quietly, and like a smiling face watching at all times.