What to do if milk keeps leaking during breastfeeding

After a mother gives birth, the milk secreted from her breasts is often the main source of nutrition for the baby. However, some mothers face the problem of insufficient milk and need to eat more raw milk ingredients or perform milk-inducing massage to replenish the milk. However, some mothers also face the problem of excessive milk, which is often accompanied by symptoms such as breast pain. So what should they do if they always become dependent during breastfeeding?

What to do if you always leak milk during breastfeeding

1. Express the milk in time

Prepare a breast pump and a bottle. During work, when your breasts start to swell, express the milk, then freeze it in the refrigerator. You can take it home to feed your baby after get off work. In this way, the baby will have enough food for the next day, and it also avoids panic when milk spit up.

2. Use breast pads

Breast milk leakage is always an embarrassing thing that cannot be avoided. Working mothers can buy some breast pads and put them inside their underwear. Once they get wet, they can be replaced at any time. Although breast pads make the breasts appear slightly exaggerated, they can effectively avoid embarrassment.

3. Wear floral clothes

Another clever way to avoid the embarrassment of milk spilling is to wear flowery clothes. Because the clothes themselves are floral, even if milk spills, ordinary people won’t be able to see it unless they pay special attention!

3 common breastfeeding problems

1. Should I wake my baby up to feed him if he keeps sleeping?

That’s right, a newborn baby doesn’t care about that. Anyway, he has been in darkness for ten months, so he doesn’t care! Then the mother will be worried. If he sleeps for four or five hours, do you need to wake him up to feed? Of course you have to! Especially during the day, you have to wake him up to feed him every three hours. If the baby doesn’t cry for food at night, you don’t have to worry about him. Congratulations, you don’t have to be a night feeding mother.

2. Nipple illusion: the little one only eats from the bottle. What should I do if he "mistakes the thief for the mother"?

This situation usually happens in the first two days after birth. The mother is unable to breastfeed directly, so the baby develops the habit of drinking from a bottle. The baby becomes obsessed with the touch and the speed of milk production, and when the nipple comes, the baby simply refuses to accept it.

Therefore, before breastfeeding every time, the mother should apply a warm towel to the nipple of the breast, wait for the areola to soften, and then apply slight force to let the milk come out and feed the baby.

In addition, you can buy a nipple shield and cover it on the nipple. The baby will think it is a bottle and will suck it. After sucking for a while, you can remove the shield and feed the baby with the nipple. After repeating this several times, the baby will get used to it.

3. My nipples are short and inverted, and my baby can’t bite them. What should I do in a hurry?

If we exclude the factors of disease, there are two ways to save it: manual and tool:

Artificial breastfeeding is to use a warm towel to rub it a few times before each feeding, and gently pull out the nipple with your hands; the tool is to buy a manual or electric breast pump, and use the negative pressure method to suck out the nipple according to the instructions on the user manual.

If a breastfeeding mother is prone to milk regurgitation, she must prepare some extra sticky breast pads, especially when she is out. She can also use a breast pump to suck out the milk. Breast milk is a precious gift for babies. Since you have chosen to breastfeed, I hope every breastfeeding mother can overcome the difficulties and persevere to the end!