Pregnancy

What each mum before the beginning of feeding by a breast should know?

The deformed dummies

Before a birth of the child you should check up your breast: in particular, on presence of any sort of deformation of nipples. In some cases women have absolutely flat dummies about what, of course, it is necessary to know to your doctor. So, we will check up your dummies in house conditions: combine your big and index fingers so that they were closed round a dummy in the form of the letter "C", approximately in several millimetres from the nipple basis, then softly press fingers this site of a breast.

Thus your dummies should come out and considerably tower over fingers. If dummies "are involved" in a breast or remain flat you should address for council to your attending physician or the skilled doctor-mammologu.

Within last several months of pregnancy you can try is more often to put on the plastic bras which cups are arranged so that suit"dummies outside. This method also can is real help with the permission of a problem of the deformed nipples. Nevertheless, some doctors assert, that the child correctly enclosed to a breast, can exhaust milk, irrespective of the size or the form of nipples of mother. Anyway, it will be useful for you to learn how correctly to put the child to a breast - for this purpose address to the doctor or experts in the field of feeding by a breast. It will be better, if you make it directly before sorts.

Weight in a breast

The unpleasant feeling of completeness and weight in a breast is a frequent case from a life of recently given birth woman. Your breast firm, hot and periodically is ill? Most likely, it occurs that the child does not exhaust milk completely. To eliminate this discomfortable sensation, feed the child more often or use the tool for decantation. Decantation will calm a pain in a breast and all in some minutes will be eliminated by unpleasant feeling of weight of the overflowed breast. In some cases, at use of decanting devices, mammary glands make not so a lot of milk, as before. Also try to put cold compresses between feedings and-or to put warm compresses and massage a breast circular movements before and during feedings.

The inflamed dummies

The inflamed and cracked dummies is the most frequent complaint of feeding mums. For you this problem also can become the first unpleasant experience of feeding by a breast, but frequently the similar problem consists that you incorrectly put the child to a breast. If the pain falls down in a minute after applying of the kid to a breast, and during all feeding by a breast does not cause painful sensations, it means, that in your case there are no occasions to excitement and anxieties. Otherwise, immediately address to your doctor.

The reasons of an inflammation of nipples can be:

- The child too strongly sticks to a nipple tip, not grasping thus a dummy part;
- The lower lip of the child is too pressed to a nipple;
- The child sucks milk almost from the aperture in a dummy instead of more widely opening a mouth;
- Desna the child rub about dummies;
- The child, trying to be put to the deformed or flat dummies within the first days/weeks of feeding, too strongly "sticks" into a breast and, thereby, damages gentle fabrics, causing an inflammation and microcracks;
- On dummies during the long period of time humidity remains.

Councils:

- Put the child to a breast as it is possible more conveniently both for it, and for you;
- Address for the help to the expert of feeding by a breast;
- Allow to the child to exhaust completely the first breast before putting it to the second;
- If dummies are inflamed, put to them medical lanolin right after feedings: it will help with process of healing of nipples and will protect them against the further inflammation;
- Try various variants of applying of the child to a breast, yet will not find position convenient for you.

Consolidations

If in a breast there is too a milk considerable quantity, it can cause consolidations and dairy blood clots. Such can happen in view of the various reasons and usually leads to an inflammation on a breast. The inflammation is shown in the form of a reddish stain on a breast, with the raised temperature.

Ways of treatment:

- Carry more free clothes and bras which do not hold down movement;
- Have more a rest;
- Feed the child of 8-12 times within days;
- Put to the inflamed stain a warm compress before each feeding;
- Begin each feeding with a breast on which the inflamed stain was found out;
- Put the child so that its chin "looked" in a direction to the inflamed place. Mass the inflamed place during feeding by a breast.

Chest infection

If at you other signs are observed also like: the fevers, the raised temperature, a pain or sensitivity in all breast, instead of in one place - that, probably, at you the chest infection more known, as a mastitis. Contact your attending physician or the expert of feeding by a breast to ask for suggestions in the given situation. Some simple chest infections give in to treatment by simple enough methods about which it has been told above on an example of treatment of consolidations in a breast.

But if illness symptoms remain, the temperature raises even more you should to start accept the antibiotics registered by your doctor. The majority of antibiotics are safe for acceptance by feeding mums, but for full confidence once again consult with your doctor concerning this or that medicine.

Your child receives milk enough?

The increase in weight is the most true way to learn, whether your child receives milk enough - so weigh the kid. The normal increase in weight makes approximately 100-200 gramme a week. As the child becomes more senior, the increase in its weight becomes more obvious to you and for associates. Remember: if you want, that your child had subsequently no problems with weight, be observed at your doctor.

Besides, watch change of diapers of your kid. When change to it a diaper, pay attention to its chair - there should be that has been eaten. At first to your child will enough change only 1 or 2 damp diapers in day. After increase in quantity of the milk exhausted for one feeding, the child should replace 5-7 damp diapers (6-8 at use of rag diapers). Thus the child should defecate 3-5 times a day. Some babies defecate more often - with each change of a diaper.

The first excrements of the kid will have dark colour, a liquid consistence. However both colour, and a consistence will vary within 1-2 days with changes in a diet. If the child eats only chest milk colour of its chair more often yellow-mustard, but colour of a chair of the child also can vary from dark yellow to the flavovirent. The chair consistence will be liquid while your child will eat only female milk at what to eat correctly. Besides, if you correctly feed the kid, some factors will testify to it: your breast becomes softer after feedings, the skin of your kid becomes smooth and gentle, and the child after each feeding will look full and happy.

But if you have noticed at the child of any of mentioned below symptoms, immediately communicate with the doctor:

- Weak shout;
- Not Elastic skin;
- A dry mouth and dry eyes;
- Smaller quantity of tears;
- Minimum urine allocation (it is less than 2 wet diapers for 24 hours);
- Temperature;
- A soft place on a head of the child it is lowered.

If you have ever transferred operation on a breast, be convinced, that have informed the doctor on it. Many mothers could without feeding, completely independently bring up a breast of children, even after chest surgery. However it is very important, that your doctor knew about all case record and about last chest operations. In that case and you, and your child will be well observed also you can be assured, that your kid receives enough of milk and fine adds in weight.

"Offer" corresponds to "demand"

The quantity of milk which is developed by your mammary glands, directly depends on that, how many and as often milk is exhausted from a breast. In a word, if your child demands some more milk your organism will increase its development. If you are interested in that at you the milk considerable quantity was developed, follow our councils which you, probably, will consider useful:

- At each feeding try to put the child to both breasts;
- At each feeding put the child to each breast twice;
- Enclose itself under feet and hands soft pillows and settle down so that it was as much as possible convenient to you to feed the kid: so you will have a rest during feeding;
- Drink more liquids (according to your individual requirements);
- Use the device for decantation (usually, a milk pump) between feedings;
- Address to the diplomaed expert concerning feeding by a breast.

At night the child constantly wakes up

Objectively there is a set of the reasons on which the child wakes up among night. Probably, your kid too very sensitively sleeps and easily falls down from the slightest noise, etc. To all other, natural female milk is split in 2 times faster, than artificial, thus, the babies nursed, start to feel hunger much earlier.

Constant drowsiness of the child

Some medical preparations accepted by the woman during pregnancy and sorts, can provoke abnormal drowsiness of the child. Do not worry, this temporary phenomenon. If throughout all first week the child constantly sleeps, it is necessary to awake him resolutely as soon as feeding time approaches. It is very important, as milk will constantly arrive to a breast and it needs to be fed to the kid. Only in this case milk will not be spoils, and the child will normally develop and add weight. Try to put the child to a breast more often, especially at night, when conditions more silent. Consult to the acquaintance or the girlfriend, same feeding mum, as well as you. You can ask also for suggestions the expert concerning feeding by a breast.

Feeding by a breast and the medicines accepted by feeding mother

The majority of antibiotics and soothing are not counter-indicative to feeding women. However for full confidence of safety of a preparation, consult to your attending physician or the pharmacist.

Possible contra-indications of the given medicine registered by the doctor or bought by you in a drugstore, should not threaten feeding by a breast. Any medicines and disposal of a pain it is not necessary to take away the child from a breast and feeding by artificial milk.

In what cases the help of the doctor is necessary for you?

We represent you some "alarm signals":

- Your newborn kid is a little wetted (less than 5-7 wet diapers in day) and thus defecates (3-5 times a day), even after increase in quantity of fed milk at the life first week much.;
- Urine of the child has uncharacteristic dark colour or has a strong smell;
- Dummies or a breast become excessively sensitive, the discomfortable sensation remains and between feedings;
- Feeding by a breast becomes disease process. (The small pain feedings is in the beginning a normal phenomenon, but the pain should disappear, as soon as your child will learn to suck a breast)

At the child gases accumulate

You, most likely, heard, that babies differently react to the various foodstuff included in a diet of mother, but it happens, as a matter of fact, seldom enough. Artificial children's milk becomes the reason of a congestion of gases more often. This foodstuff is capable to cause some sort of a problem, instead of a diet of feeding mother as it is considered to be.

In a similar situation is better children's massage helps: it calms the child suffering from gases which have accumulated at him in a tummy. Thus, you should read the books devoted to children's massage to find that technics which most of all is pleasant to your child. You also can try some receptions of disposal of gases. For example: take the child, bend the hand in an elbow, and a head and handles of the kid throw through your hand. Make so that the child could "chat" freely legs, having hung at you on a hand.

Additives to children's meal and artificial dummies

Addition at an early stage of feeding by a breast can bring the contribution to process of a normal food of the child in a diet of the child of the cleared water or artificial milk. If you have not enough milk, and at the kid good appetite you should think of addition to its food of water or artificial additives, especially, if you or at your child have an allergy on the cow milk.

Avoid artificial dummies and nozzles on a small bottle, they can confuse some your child if before you nursed it. The child differently eats from a bottle and sucks a dummy in comparison with a parent breast. Besides, artificial dummies firmer, rather than your breast and its nipple - as a result the child is differently put to a breast and a small bottle. If the kid gets used to that milk itself flows in a mouth from a small bottle and it should not do sucking movements and to put efforts he will refuse a breast.
In most cases, children do not suck a breast, having tried to eat from a small bottle.