What should I do if my breasts are swollen and I can’t suck them out?

Women who are breastfeeding often encounter some problems, such as breast engorgement. The main reason is that the mother secretes too much milk, which completely exceeds the baby's needs. Men will never know the pain of women's breast engorgement. In fact, this feeling is very uncomfortable. At this time, you must find a way to suck it out, otherwise it will be bad for breast health. If you find that the breasts cannot be sucked out, you can take the following solutions.

What should I do if my breasts are swollen and I can’t suck them out ?

Massage method: You can ask your family to prepare a hot towel wrung out with hot water (be careful not to make it too wet), and then put the towel on the breasts for hot compress, until you feel comfortable and your milk does not feel too swollen. Then ask your family, preferably your husband or mother, to cover your breasts with both hands and gently knead them left and right. When you feel that your bowel movement is no longer swollen, immediately bring your baby over and let him suck. As long as the baby can suck out the bowel movement at the beginning, I believe that the bowel movement will be unobstructed afterwards.

The baby's sucking posture should be correct: Breast swelling and the baby's inability to suck milk may be due to the baby's incorrect sucking posture, so each time breastfeeding, the nipple should be touched to the baby's lips to induce the feeding reflex and make the baby open his mouth wide. When sucking, the upper milk should be contained more than the lower milk, so that the baby can suck slowly and deeply.

If there are lumps in the breasts and milk cannot be squeezed out, this is probably caused by poor lactation. If it is serious, it can also cause breast inflammation, abscesses, fever and other phenomena, affecting normal breastfeeding. It is recommended that you first apply local hot compress to the indurated area to promote blood circulation. In addition, you can use essential oils for massage. You can use a breast pump to express breast milk.

It is common in milk stasis and should be treated actively to prevent mastitis.

Guidance:

At the beginning, it is not easy to squeeze out the blocked milk ducts. Apply a hot towel and then massage. If there are hard lumps, rub them a little bit at first, so that they can be squeezed out slowly. If the lumps are serious, the process will be very painful and it will feel very painful when rubbing.

Mothers should express milk by themselves, because expressing milk by others may cause pain and inhibit the milk ejection reflex. If too much force is used, it may cause breast damage. Wash your hands before expressing milk. The mother finds a comfortable seat and places the container of milk close to the breast. When expressing milk, the mother places her thumb above the nipple and areola, her index finger below the nipple and areola, and uses the other fingers to support the breast. Use your thumb and index finger to squeeze toward the chest wall. When squeezing, your fingers must be fixed and not slide on the skin. The milk may not come out after the first few squeezes, but if you repeat this a few times, the milk will come out. If the milk ejection reflex is strong, the milk will spurt out.