Should I squeeze out the milk swelling?

For many mothers, weaning is a painful process. I believe every mother will have this experience. Weaning may cause breast pain, milk engorgement, etc., which makes many mothers miserable. So what are some good ways to wean? Do I need to express the milk if I have engorgement during weaning? Next, let me give you a detailed understanding. If you need it, you must understand it well.

When the milk is swollen, it needs to be squeezed out, but it cannot be completely emptied. Just squeeze it until it is no longer swollen and painful.

Reasons for squeezing out part of the swollen milk:

1. Breast engorgement during weaning is very painful. You can relieve the pain by squeezing out some milk with your hands or a breast pump.

2. If the mother does not express milk, she will have sufficient milk supply and severe milk engorgement, which may cause infection and even develop into mastitis, which will cause greater pain to the mother.

3. If the breasts are emptied every time when milking, it will stimulate the mother to secrete milk, which will make it impossible to return the milk or return the milk very slowly, which will also cause troubles to the baby and the mother.

Tips on what to do during weaning:

1. When your milk is swollen, try to be patient. If it is really uncomfortable, squeeze out some milk with your hands or a breast pump, and don't let your baby suck milk. Just squeeze out a little to relieve the pain of breast engorgement and then stop squeezing. Using hot compresses can also relieve the pain of breast engorgement.

2. Appropriately control the amount of water intake in the diet, and strictly prohibit the intake of milk-producing foods, such as crucian carp, pig's trotters, pangolins, etc.

3. Eat foods that can reduce milk production, such as roasted malt.

4. Don’t feed your baby easily when you see him crying. Gradually reduce the number of breastfeedings. If this happens repeatedly, it will be bad for both the baby and the mother.

5. It usually takes about a week for breastfeeding to stop, and the mother must be physically and mentally prepared.

Precautions for infant weaning

1. The mother should first eat vegetarian food for a few days, and avoid eating too much or eating things that are too nutritious, for fear that too much nutrition will be converted into milk and cause breast engorgement, so try to just eat white porridge. 2. I started drinking some Chinese herbal malt 3 days ago to help with my milk production. (Remember, you don’t have to drink milk today to have it go away. You need to drink it a few days in advance.)

2. If the swollen breasts are really uncomfortable due to weaning, you can apply a hot towel to relieve the pain. Go to the drugstore and buy malt and hawthorn to boil water. Boil 10 grams of malt and hawthorn in two bowls of water and drink it in a day. In addition, add vitamin B6 tablets, three times a day, 10 tablets each time. Eat them for a few days in a row and you will be fine.

3. Go to the drugstore and buy a pound of saltpeter. You can divide it into three times to make two bags. Put the bags with medicine on the nipples respectively, and use a longer bandage to wrap the medicine bags to tighten the chest. Remember to tie it tightly. It will be a little painful (this is very important). After the medicine is hardened by the milk, change some more medicine. This method is very effective. Bind it for one night, and the milk will stop the next morning.