Mothers should not eat these foods that reduce milk production. Be careful that the more you eat, the less milk you will produce.

What a mother eats is directly related to the amount of milk. If she is still breastfeeding, the mother must pay attention to her diet and try not to eat foods that may cause milk dryness, so as to avoid the baby starving due to insufficient milk, especially if the baby refuses to eat milk powder, which will make the mother even more worried. However, if the mother is in the weaning period, she can eat some foods that help to stop the milk production, which will gradually reduce the amount of milk until it disappears.

1. Foods that can help wean your baby

Chives: You can eat more chives during the weaning period to help with weaning.

Bitter melon: Bitter melon is a cold food, eating more of it can help with weaning.

Sour vegetables: purslane, cucumber, winter melon, bitter melon, and cucumber.

There are also leeks, white radish, beans, amaranth, carrots; pumpkin, toon, eggplant, lotus root, bamboo shoots, day lily, cabbage, corn, etc.

In addition to vegetables, whole grains, fruits, meat, spices and supplements also have the effect of reducing milk production, including:

Cereals and grains: sweet potato, corn, malt, etc.

Meat and liver: beef, pork liver, duck, pork heart, old hen, ham, etc.

Aniseed: fennel, salt (not too salty), vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, pepper, mustard, etc.

Aquatic organisms and supplements: field snails, snails, cold foods (such as crabs), sea cucumbers, American ginseng, ginseng, etc.

In addition, beer, tea, barley tea, Huoxiang Zhengqi water, etc. may also be beneficial for weaning.

2. Fruits that reduce milk production

Fruits: grapefruit, orange, sand apple, pomegranate, hawthorn, plum, persimmon, etc.

3. Ways to stop breastfeeding

1. Natural weaning

Gradually reduce the number of feedings, reduce the number and amount of breast milk your baby sucks or stop letting your baby suck, shorten the time of each feeding. At the same time, you should pay attention to eating less soup and milk-producing foods, and eat less protein-rich foods. The secretion of milk gradually decreases until it disappears completely.

2. Artificial weaning

Artificial weaning can be divided into food weaning method and drug weaning method.

(1) Food method for weaning: Ingredients and preparation: maltose, 60 grams of roasted malt, add brown sugar, put into a pot, add water and boil, remove the residue and drink, take once a day for 1 to 2 weeks.

(2) Medical weaning method can be used for breastfeeding mothers who have abundant milk or want to wean quickly. Oral or external use of Chinese herbal medicine to reduce lactation can also have a good effect. Since some babies are still very attached to their mother's milk, it is best to start reducing milk supply from the daytime feeding. Because there are many things that attract the baby during the day, he will not pay special attention to his mother. However, in the morning and evening, the baby will be very attached to his mother and need to get comfort from breastfeeding. Therefore, it is not easy to wean the baby. After weaning the baby during the day, slowly stop night feeding until the transition to complete weaning.