What to do if the milk becomes less after breast engorgement

After giving birth to a baby, many people will experience milk swelling. This is because in some cases the baby cannot eat enough, which will cause milk swelling. However, some mothers will encounter the situation of less and less breast milk after milk swelling. On the one hand, the baby is not full, and on the other hand, the mother is also very anxious. Now let’s understand what to do if there is insufficient milk after milk swelling?

What to do if your milk supply is insufficient after breast engorgement

When you feel your milk is swollen, you can let your baby suck, because this will not only feed the baby, but the energy of the baby's sucking can promote our blood circulation, increase our milk flow, and relieve the phenomenon of milk engorgement. In addition, when your breasts are swollen, you can use a hot cotton towel to warm your breasts. Because this can promote the metabolism of breast milk in our breasts and accelerate the blood circulation in our breasts, it will not only relieve the feeling of breast pain, but also reduce swelling, and there will be no problem of insufficient milk after the milk is swollen.

How to prevent insufficient milk supply

Every time you feed the baby, both breasts must be sucked by the baby. If the baby does not drink the breast milk on one side, you can use a manual breast pump to extract the breast milk to prevent milk engorgement. Secondly, breast milk can be improved through a reasonable diet. There are many recipes for milk production in folk customs, such as pig tripe stewed with red dates soup (one pig tripe, 250 grams of red dates or small dates cooked together), crucian carp and tofu soup, millet soup, egg noodles, and pig's trotters stewed with soybeans are all good milk-producing foods. Mothers can eat them consistently, and make sure to drink porridge twice a week. Millet soup and egg noodles can be used alternately for breakfast.

Nowadays, many female friends are independent women. After giving birth to a baby, they have to return to work and life a few months later, so there are often problems with breastfeeding. At this time, the mother can use a manual breast pump to extract the milk, and store it in the refrigerator. When the baby is hungry, she can take it out and heat it up immediately. This method will not make the baby hungry, nor will it cause the mother to have milk engorgement problems. Only after you understand the medicine clearly can you avoid being troubled by side effects.