Breast milk is the very first baby food, and at the same time the most nutritious and nutritious. Fortunately, the time has passed when cow or goat milk for newborns was considered a more suitable diet. Today, newly mummified mothers can breastfeed their babies.
Those women who gave birth for the first time, can experience why they do not have milk right after delivery. But it's very simple - lack of milk after birth is quite normal, and the appearance of milk is waiting for you very, very soon.
Usually in the first few days a woman has a colostrum - transparent liquid, sweet to taste. At first this is enough for the baby. More fatty milk is not yet under the power of its digestive system. After all, she had just started working, the intestine had just begun to be populated with useful bacteria.
In no case do you need to give the child a mixture of bottles, believing that the colostrum he will not eat. Feeling how easily the nipple pours from the nipple, it is possible that your baby will not take more breast - in fact in this case you need to work hard to get food.
What should mom do when milk comes?
The arrival of milk is usually observed on day 2-3 after delivery. Sometimes it happens on a 5-6 day. And when the long-awaited milk comes in after the birth, it brings new questions. After all, often the breast is very poured and even stony.
In the first few days after the arrival of milk, one should refrain from consuming liquid. The mouth will feel dry - but you can not drink a lot. You can often rinse your mouth with water.
You may need to express milk after feeding. The child is still very small and needs only 20-30 grams, whereas milk comes much more. Over time, everything is normalized - the chest and the child will adjust to each other. Milk will come exactly as much as the baby eats.
In the meantime, you need to wait a few days. Probably, you will need help to break down the "stones" in your chest and express your milk. While you are in the hospital, you can help a midwife or other medical staff. You will be taught how to express the excess milk correctly, so that at home you can do it yourself.
But do not get carried away by decanting. Once the feeding process is normal, you do not need to do this, otherwise you risk plunging into the endless process of "eating-pumping-arriving-eating-pumping". After all, milk will come as much as it was taken from the chest in the past feeding, including how much you have time to express. Expressed milk is superfluous.