SOME QUESTIONS ON THE MATERNAL LACTANCY

How is necessary to take care of the chest during the lactation?
One is well-taken care of very simple. It is necessary to wash the breasts with a cotton absorbed in boiled water.

What diet must be followed?
The diet must be complete and richer of the normal thing; nutritious and caloric principles in amounts able must be introduced in her to compensate the losses constituted by the milky secretion.
The diet must be rich in fresh foods to avoid vitaminic deficiencies and must present/display an suitable amount of liquids, since the water is the base of milk.
He is advisable to eliminate foods that confer to milk a special flavor, disagreeable for the boy. Among them it is possible to mention, for example, col, the onions, garlic and the asparagus.

Which are the foods that increase the secretion milky?
There are foods or no drinks that increase the secretion milky.
The so rotten properties of some foods never have been confirmed.

What regime of life is allowed to the woman who is giving the chest?
The woman who is giving the chest to her son can follow a life normal; it means that it does not have to resign to many things, but also that cannot make things special, as for example to make competition sport.
On the other hand, there is no doubt that a calm life is very important Emotions, preoccupations and fears are factors that alter the maternal balance psychic and that are not, therefore, good for the lactation.
The tobacco is detrimental.

If the mother does not have the enough milk, can be administered artificial milk from the first hours?
If it has been decided to resign to the maternal lactation, artificial milk can indeed be administered.
But the mother has still not been decided in such sense, is necessary to avoid the artificial milk administration.
The neoborn one without hunger does not suck or sucks with little force.
This fact in principle does not favor the secretion of the colostrum and milk later.
Therefore, if he is decided to decide on the maternal lactancy, the boy will have from the beginning to receive from exclusive form milk of the mother and, if he were thirsty, a little water.

Six rules of common sense

Not to observe with excessive rigidity the schedules: half an hour of or of less he is perfectly acceptable more;
To alternate the breasts, to drain them and you would stimulate to the maximum; if the boy, certain time after the taking, wants to return to suck, it is not necessary to give the baby’s bottle, but to give him the chest him;
Not to try to give the chest to the boy when it is crying: Cradle a little and that only sucks when it has been tranquilized; It is not necessary to worry to maintain the wide-awake boy so that it takes the amount from milk that the mother considers indispensable; it has new born “sleepy” that falls asleep as soon as they have sucked times, but that awake as soon as they notice the impulses of the hunger;
The milk production goes accompanied of an intense hormonal production: it causes increase of the size, reddening and pain the breasts; in order to avoid these upheavals, it is enough with applying hot compresses in the breasts;
The suction of the baby causes the passage to the blood of the mother of a special hormone, the oxitocin, that causes that they are contracted the muscular fibers of the glands you would suck, favoring therefore the slope and the exit of milk; the same hormone can nevertheless, to cause the contraction of the uterus that many women warn in form of abdominal pain, seemed to a colic.
When the chest cannot occur
Not it can when the mother presents/displays or has:
It does not have milk (to remember that the first hours it is necessary to insist although does not leave)
It presents/displays serious malformations of the nipple It has tuberculosis in active phase
It has contagious diseases in course
It suffers serious debilitating diseases She is carrying of antigen “Au” of hepatitis B
Not it can if it drinks.:
It presents/displays malformations of the lip or to palate
It does not know to suck by immaturity, but in this case, milk can be removed to the mother and to give it to it to drinks in baby’s bottle

As you see in 90% of the cases, if you want you can.

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