What to do if your milk increases after giving birth

Breast engorgement is a common phenomenon for breastfeeding women. If breast engorgement occurs, timely measures must be taken to relieve it. Failure to do so may cause women to experience extreme pain and even cause diseases such as mastitis. So, what should you do if your breasts swell after giving birth? The following will give you a detailed introduction!

1. What to do if your breasts swell after giving birth

Soak in warm water. If conditions permit, you can take a hot bath. If it really doesn't work, you can get a basin of hot water and place it on a low table or chair (stool), then slowly bend your upper body so that your breasts can be soaked in the basin, then gently shake your breasts to allow the force to slowly flow out the milk.

2. Hot Bath

When your breasts are really painful, it is better to take a hot shower and gently massage your breasts while showering. Massage is beneficial to activate breast blood vessels and help relieve breast swelling and pain. However, don't stay in the bathroom for too long just for the sake of comfort. If you catch a cold during the early breastfeeding period, it will not be good for both the mother and the baby.

3. Massage

If you feel breast tenderness, try gentle massage. After washing your hands, grab your breasts and apply even force, gently moving from the chest toward the nipple. This can help unclog the milk ducts and help relieve breast edema. If you find obvious swelling and pain in a certain area during the massage, you can increase the force appropriately to discharge the accumulated milk to prevent milk from clogging the milk ducts and causing breast pain.

4. Cold compress

If breast pain has reached an unbearable level, you may want to try cold compresses. Wet a towel with cold water and apply it to your breasts. The cool sensation of the cold water can relieve pain, but you must remember to squeeze out the milk before applying the cold compress, and make sure to use cold water, not ice water. The cold water is just the right amount of chilliness.

5. Use a breast pump

When the breasts are swollen, the baby's absorption can indeed help pregnant mothers reduce the swollen breasts, but the baby's stomach is so small that it is impossible for him to eat all day long. Therefore, if you only rely on breastfeeding to reduce the swollen breasts, it is obviously not so good. So at this time, you need to use a breast pump. When the baby is full, you can use the breast pump to wash out the excess milk, so that there will be no obvious feeling of breast swollen breasts.