How many days does it take for weaning pain to last?

Weaning is a necessary process for women who breastfeed. Weaning pain is a problem that many women encounter during breastfeeding. Generally speaking, mothers' breast pain lasts for about a week. The specific duration depends on individual constitution and treatment measures. So, what methods can be used to alleviate the problem of breast pain during weaning? This will be introduced in detail below!

Breast pain is uncomfortable and it is best not to use some drugs for pain relief, because breast pain is a normal phenomenon of weaning and a natural law of breastfeeding babies. If you use drugs to relieve pain, it will inevitably bring more or less side effects to the body and will not be conducive to breastfeeding the next child. Therefore, when mothers face breast pain, they must have a strong mentality and the perseverance to endure the pain. When your breasts are sore, keeping yourself busy and distracting yourself is a good way to divert the pain.

In addition to maintaining a good attitude, we can also take some measures to reduce breast pain. For example, you can apply a hot towel to your breasts while taking a bath and gently massage them in a clockwise direction with your hands to prevent milk from caking and increasing the pain.

Breast pain is caused by the inability to suck out milk in time. Some mothers may use a breast pump to suck out some of the milk. In fact, this practice is wrong. It is even more detrimental to weaning. Milk will still be continuously secreted, which will prolong the weaning time and naturally prolong the breast pain time.

In order to make the breasts secrete less milk, we can eat some milk-reducing foods to help relieve breast pain. Foods that can help weaning include sweet potatoes, leeks, celery, bitter gourd, etc. The amount of food that can help weaning varies from person to person. So mothers can try them all and try to eat vegetables that can reduce milk production during the weaning period. But don’t think that spicy and frozen foods can help to reduce milk secretion and eat them randomly. These spicy and frozen foods are very bad for the postpartum mother’s physical recovery, so you still need to be careful with your diet.

Breast pain is uncomfortable, especially after hearing the baby crying, the pain becomes even more unbearable. This is a natural lactation response. Therefore, mothers should ask fathers to cooperate as much as possible, hug the children more, comfort the children's emotions, and try to reduce the number of contacts between mothers and children, but this does not mean complete isolation. When holding a baby, the mother must be extremely careful not to let the baby hit the breasts, otherwise the breasts will become more swollen and painful.

If mothers really can't stand the bloating and pain, they can also go to the pharmacy to buy hawthorn malt and boil it in water to drink. The effect is also very significant. Hawthorn malt is no different from other medicines and has no side effects, so mothers can rest assured. But no matter what method you use, it is impossible to completely eliminate breast pain at once. The milder the pain is, the longer it may last for ten days, but generally it lasts about a week. Finally, I wish all mothers a smooth weaning process. After weaning, you will be proud of yourself because you can actually endure the pain and swelling like this!