Can I get my milk back if it stops flowing? The truth is this

Many women often ask me why their milk has dried up accidentally because they were not careful about their diet. They are still breastfeeding and still want to continue breastfeeding their baby, but they have no milk. This worries many mothers. What should they do at this time?

1. Reduce nipple irritation. For example, reduce the number of times you feed your baby every day, lengthen the intervals between feedings, and shorten the duration of each feeding. Also, avoid washing your breasts with hot water.

2. Do not express your milk completely. If your breasts are uncomfortably swollen, you can express the milk, but don't express it completely, otherwise it will promote milk secretion and have the opposite effect. You can use ice packs to cool your breasts to relieve the feeling of swelling.

3. Eat more foods that promote weaning. Such as barley tea, maltose, leek, pepper, aniseed (fennel), MSG, ginseng, hawthorn, chocolate, bitter melon, malt, raw loquat leaves, scrambled eggs with toon, malted milk, raw hawthorn and other foods. You should avoid eating foods that promote milk secretion, such as peanuts, pig's trotters, crucian carp, soups and other protein-rich foods, which can reduce milk secretion.

4. There are certain requirements for weaning time. Do not wean your child in the summer, because the weather is hot in summer and the gastrointestinal digestive function is weakened. If you add too much complementary food to your child after weaning, it will easily cause indigestion or even gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea. Do not wean your child when he is sick, because your child's resistance to disease is poor, his digestive function is poor, and his body is very weak. If you wean your child at this time, it will inevitably affect his physical recovery and even aggravate his condition.

5. Do not use force or intimidation to wean your child. It is not advisable to force children to wean by applying spicy, bitter or colored substances on the nipples. Complementary food should be made to look, smell and taste good so that children will like to eat it. Over time, children will no longer want to drink milk.