Do I need to express the milk when I am weaning?

When weaning, many mothers will experience breast engorgement. Of course, breast engorgement is a painful phenomenon for women in the weaning period, because if the breast engorgement is not treated in time, it will cause breast pain in women and even cause diseases such as mastitis. So, how should we deal with the phenomenon of milk engorgement during weaning?

1. Breast pump to empty milk

Whether the milk engorgement is caused by the baby's inability to suck or the milk engorgement occurs after weaning, the mother can use a breast pump to solve the problem of milk engorgement. This can not only solve the various discomfort symptoms caused by milk engorgement, but also effectively avoid mastitis caused by mammary gland blockage.

Warm reminder: When choosing a breast pump, you must pay attention to the moderate suction force and ensure that the nipples should not feel pain when sucking milk.

2. Heat to relieve pain

After using a breast pump to express milk, applying a hot towel to the breasts can effectively relieve swelling and pain. Moreover, hot compress can make the milk lumps blocking the breast glands unblocked and improve breast circulation.

Warm reminder: When applying hot compress, avoid the areola and nipple areas because the skin in these two areas is more tender. Also, the temperature of the hot compress should not be too high to avoid scalding the skin.

3. Breast massage to relieve

When breast engorgement occurs, mothers can also effectively relieve the discomfort through massage.

First, you should wash your hands with warm water, then hold the entire breast and apply even force to gently massage and squeeze from all sides of the breast towards the nipple. This massage method can not only help unclog the milk ducts, but also relieve symptoms such as skin edema.

Warm tip: If you find that a certain part of the breast is particularly swollen and painful during the massage, you can squeeze it with a little force. This massage method can help mothers who have been weaned to discharge the accumulated milk as quickly as possible, thereby preventing the blockage of the milk ducts here, and it also has the effect of preventing mastitis.

4. Soak your breasts in warm water

You can place a basin of warm water on your knees, then bend your upper body to your knees, soak your breasts in the basin, and gently shake your breasts. Gravity will allow the milk to flow out more easily. In addition, when your breasts are swollen and painful, you might as well take a hot shower and massage your breasts, which will feel more comfortable.