What to do if you don't have enough milk during a normal birth

After birth, the fetus cannot directly eat the foods that adults eat because its stomach and intestines are not fully developed and its digestive system cannot function normally. It needs to rely on breast milk to supplement the nutrients it needs every day. Many mothers who have given birth naturally have insufficient milk. In this case, people need to take timely measures to regulate it. So here is a detailed introduction on how to deal with insufficient milk during a normal birth.

Ways to increase milk supply:

1. Frequent sucking is the most important thing. The more you suck, the more breast milk you will produce. Frequent and effective sucking by the baby will stimulate the mother to automatically secrete the same amount of milk to meet the baby's needs.

2. It is not advisable to suck only one breast. Switch 2-3 times each time you breastfeed. Both the left and right breasts should be sucked. When the frequency of sucking and swallowing slows down, you can switch to the other side.

3. Pay attention to the intake of water and nutrition, keep full for three meals, eat a normal diet, match the staple food with meat and vegetables, and have a balanced nutrition. You can drink fish soup or chicken soup, papaya crucian carp soup, octopus peanut pig's foot soup, or use Chinese medicine Akebia to make soup between meals;

4. Pay attention to keeping a good mood and getting enough rest;

5. If conditions permit, you can ask a professional lactation consultant to help unclog the milk ducts and promote lactation.

If a woman does not have enough milk after giving birth, she can stimulate lactation through diet. Here are two recommended lactation recipes that can be consumed by mothers with insufficient milk.

(1) Tongcao Crucian Carp Lactation-Promoting Soup

Ingredients: 1 live crucian carp, 6 grams of tongcao.

Method: After cleaning the prepared crucian carp, clean the tongcao, then put the two ingredients into the pot and cook them into crucian carp soup. When eating crucian carp, the mother should drink the soup with it, twice a day. Drinking it for 3-5 consecutive days will increase milk supply. But one thing you should pay attention to when cooking soup is to put as little salt as possible in the soup, so that it will have a better lactation effect.

Efficacy: Crucian carp itself has the effect of promoting diuresis and lactation. Combined with the ventilation and lactation effect of tongcao, it can not only improve the lactation effect, but also is very beneficial to the recovery of the mother's body.

(2) Luffa seed and silver carp lactation-promoting soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of loofah seeds, 1 live silver carp.

Preparation method: Wash, scale and remove the internal organs of the silver carp, then cook it together with the loofah seeds into soup. You can add some soy sauce when cooking the soup, but it is best not to add salt. It is best to eat the fish and drink the soup at once. Drink it once a day for 3 consecutive days and the effect will be very obvious.

Efficacy: Chinese medicine points out that loofah seeds have a lactation-promoting effect; while silver carp has the effects of tonifying deficiency, regulating qi, and promoting lactation. Therefore, loofah seed and silver carp lactation-promoting soup has a certain effect on low milk production caused by blood deficiency.

Other tips for solving insufficient milk supply

1. Pay attention to breastfeeding posture to avoid nipple inflammation .

For new mothers, in order to effectively solve the problem of insufficient maternal milk, the correct breastfeeding posture plays a very important role. The correct breastfeeding posture is very important. In fact, nipple rupture is not caused by long sucking time, but by incorrect breastfeeding posture.

If the nipple is ruptured and becomes inflamed, it is best for the baby to suck the healthy breast first when sucking milk. If the milk ejection reflex occurs, it is best to let the baby suck the affected side. This way, the baby can suck fully and the milk can be emptied smoothly, which is also conducive to the dissipation of inflammation.

2. Strengthen the baby's sucking.

After giving birth, some mothers will experience breast engorgement. This happens because the baby is not allowed to suck the breasts clean in time. When a new wave of milk comes out, it will not be able to be discharged normally. After the baby feeds, the prolactin in the mother's blood will increase exponentially.