It has long been known that for the baby there is nothing better than breastfeeding the mother. The main thing in the successful implementation of this process is the correct psychological mood of the mother. Currently welcome to feed the baby on demand. This is necessary so that the baby feels the presence of the mother and feels his complete safety. It may happen that the idyll of mother and child will violate the lactation crisis.
It must be understood that no one is safe from the onset of the lactation crisis, you cannot prepare for it. Crisis in the process of lactation is not a sharp decrease in milk. Your baby is growing and he needs more and more food. In certain leaps in development, he ceases to eat and capriches at his chest, demanding more milk. In the mammary gland, exactly as much milk is produced as it is sucked. With an increase in the needs of the child in enhanced nutrition, the mammary gland cannot react immediately. To return to normal, sometimes from three to seven days is required. In these periods, you should be patient and fight for breast milk. Starting to give the mixture you can lose breast milk at all, since the baby may begin to be lazy to take breasts. You cannot bring yourself to a nervous breakdown in connection with a decrease in lactation, because you can lose your breast milk completely.
First of all, it should be made sure that the reason for the crying of the child is precisely in reducing milk. The baby may have a lot of reasons for the whim.
You can stimulate milk production by wearing a baby in a sling. The baby will be constantly at the chest, at this time the hormone is being stimulated by the hormone responsible for lactation. A good and reliable way to check the volume of milk that the child can eat with the help of wet diapers. It is necessary to calculate how many times a day your baby pisses. For girls, the norm will be more than 10 times, for boys more than 12 times. If the child pisses much less – this is a sign of a lactation crisis. If you needed only 7 or less diapers a day we are talking about a threat of dehydration. The baby urgently needs to be fed with the adaptation mixture.
At such moments, all efforts should be made to preserve milk. You should not scare the many hours of hanging the baby on the chest, such his behavior is due to nature. There is special tea to improve lactation. A relaxing shower, soft breast massage and a joint sleep of a mother and baby are recommended.