What to do if your breasts hurt during lactation

Women should pay attention to their diet during breastfeeding. They should not eat high-calorie and high-fat foods, otherwise they will easily become obese. Women can choose more soups, which are very helpful for sufficient milk supply and will not make them fat. Women also need to pay attention to this. What should they do if they feel breast pain during breastfeeding? This is also something women don’t know.

What to do if you have breast pain during lactation:

1. Heat

Hot compress can make the milk lumps blocking the mammary glands unblocked and improve breast circulation. When applying hot compress, be careful to avoid the areola and nipple areas because the skin in these two areas is more tender. The temperature of the hot compress should not be too hot to avoid scalding the skin.

2. Massage

After applying hot compress to the breasts, you can massage them. There are many ways to massage the breasts. Generally, you hold one breast with both hands and massage alternately from the bottom of the breast to the nipple, and then squeeze the milk into a container.

It is common for lumps to appear in the breasts during lactation, accompanied by pain. However, for novice mothers, they are always caught off guard by sudden pain problems due to lack of experience.

Why do breasts have lumps and pain during lactation? In fact, if lumps suddenly appear in the breasts during lactation and are accompanied by pain, this is mostly due to external forces causing blockage of the milk ducts, such as the baby's hands and feet kicking or pressing on the breasts while sleeping, causing blockage of the milk ducts. On the one hand, blockage of the milk ducts manifests as partial pain or lumps in the breasts.

After understanding what to do if you feel breast pain during lactation, you can follow the above methods to improve the situation. If a lactating woman has severe breast pain, you can also choose some simple massage methods, which can be very helpful in alleviating the problem. However, the strength of the massage should be appropriate and not too strong.