Do I need to take milk-reducing medicine after weaning?

If a mother takes some medicine during breastfeeding, she needs to stop breastfeeding because the toxins in the medicine, if ingested by the baby in breast milk, will have an impact on the baby's body. After two or three months, the medicine is digested and breastfeeding can be resumed, but the mother needs to stop breastfeeding during this process. So, do you need to take medicine when you stop breastfeeding after weaning?

Is it necessary to take milk-reducing medicine when weaning?

There are many ways to wean your baby, and you don’t have to take milk-suppressing medicine. Here are some ways to wean your baby.

1. Drink saltier soup. Salty taste has an astringent effect. Drinking salty soups and eating salty foods can effectively reduce lactation.

2. Drink strong tea. Tea also has an astringent effect, and drinking strong tea can reduce lactation. However, breastfeeding mothers with poor sleep or anemia should use it with caution, because tea can refresh the mind and reduce sleepiness, and it can also hinder the body's absorption of iron.

3. Replace soups and stewed meat with vegetarian foods.

4. Replace hot and warm nourishing meats with cool foods. For example, celery, watermelon, cucumber, pear, etc. are all cool foods. Eating more of these foods and temporarily not eating warm foods such as lamb, milk, beef, and red dates can also help reduce lactation.

5. Loofah, lotus seeds, pig's trotter soup, crucian carp or carp soup can all promote milk secretion, so try not to eat them at this time.

Pre-weaning semi-weaning program

1. Feed the baby two times a day with complementary food, three times with breast milk, and twice more with breast milk at night (mostly before going to bed and after waking up);

2. If the baby is fed complementary food twice a day, he will only eat breast milk once or twice, and will not eat at night. The mother will feel breast engorgement. In this case, do not feed the baby complementary food twice, but just once.

3. If the baby still does not eat breast milk well and the mother feels breast engorgement, then only add eggs, vegetables and fruits to the baby's diet, without adding rice or flour. If you are still drinking cow's milk, reduce your milk intake and add breast milk instead.

4. If the baby only likes to eat complementary foods and does not like breast milk or cow's milk, it is too early to wean him. Babies under one year old are called suckling babies because they mainly feed on milk. Early weaning is not conducive to the growth and development of infants.

5. If the breast milk is very little, it doesn’t matter whether the baby feeds or not. You can stop breastfeeding and feed cow’s milk and complementary foods instead.

6. If the baby still refuses to eat, feed him in the morning when he just wakes up. Then the baby will be willing to drink. Or you can take the bottle outdoors. When your baby is outdoors, he will be happy and may drink milk.

7. Do not completely stop drinking dairy products. Even if the baby doesn't drink milk today, try it tomorrow to cultivate the habit of drinking milk.