How to stimulate lactation after cesarean section

Nowadays, many pregnant women choose caesarean section because they are not focused on taking care of the fetus during pregnancy or are afraid that they cannot bear the pain of natural childbirth. However, as a way of giving birth that has a slight impact on the body, cesarean section does not allow the body to undergo a normal transformation process, and many organs are not stimulated accordingly. Therefore, pregnant women who undergo cesarean section generally need to perform lactation-inducing activities. How to induce lactation during cesarean section?

Cesarean section does have a certain impact on postpartum lactation. But new mothers don’t need to worry. Now I will tell you that if you master the correct method, you can also smoothly let in milk and successfully achieve breastfeeding.

Have full confidence in your ability to breastfeed, and after the initial period of less milk, your breast milk will increase.

Touch early, suck early, and start breastfeeding early.

Postpartum milk secretion depends largely on the sucking stimulation of the baby during breastfeeding. When the baby sucks the nipple within half an hour after birth, it will promote milk secretion. The sucking action can reflexively cause milk to flow through the ducts into the milk sinuses and eject milk. Sucking is the key to maintaining continuous milk secretion from the mammary glands.

Emptying the breasts is an important condition for milk secretion. · Chest to chest (mother's chest to baby's chest), belly to belly (mother's belly to baby's belly), baby's mouth to mother's breast.

When there is less breast milk in the beginning, try to avoid using bottles and pacifiers to prevent your baby from having a nipple illusion. Methods for inducing lactation after cesarean section: relieve tension and maintain a calm mind. Negative psychological factors can affect milk secretion. Therefore, it is very important to relieve tension and maintain a calm mind.

After giving birth, new mothers generally have varying degrees of psychological problems such as anxiety, uneasiness, depression, fear, etc. In addition to the impact of surgery,

Caring for the breasts is beneficial for sucking. Lifting the nipples during breast massage will stimulate the nipples and areola, making the nipple skin stronger and helping the baby suck. Breast care steps

A. Wash the left and right breasts separately. Avoid washing nipples with soap, which removes the protective oils on the outer layer.

B. After cleaning, hold your breasts with your hands and knead your nipples with your thumb and index finger to increase their toughness. When massaging, use the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to massage from the base of the breast towards the nipple, twice a day, 20 times each time. You can also use a blunt-tooth comb to gently comb from the base of the breast to the nipple to keep the milk ducts open.

The above is some relevant introduction about inducing lactation through cesarean section and how to do it. I hope everyone with a pregnant woman at home can read this article carefully and show more care to the female friends who have had a cesarean section at home. Inducing lactation is a technical job, but if you master the right method, you can easily achieve the effect.