About Chinese Cabbage Milk Opening and How to Suck Milk

After an unforgettable day and night in the hospital, I decided to talk about this cabbage and how to suck milk. By the way, I hope I can help other mothers-let me talk about my situation at that time first. I ate the bloody "prolactin granules" sent by the hospital the night before (I really shouldn't eat them afterwards, let the milk take it slowly, maybe a series of things will not happen later, alas ~). When I woke up the next morning, my mother felt like there were two big stones in her chest, which was so heavy and painful! Even if clothes rub against the skin, it hurts. When the doctor came to make rounds, he said to let the baby suck, otherwise he would have a fever and get mastitis. Mastitis? That really hurts, so I quickly let the baby suck it. But the milk rose so much that the nipples were swollen and sank in. The areola has risen so much that the fingers can't catch it, and the baby can't suck milk at all. My aunt nurse put a hot towel on me and planned to help me knead the milk. But it was so painful that my aunt cried when she touched me. Then use a breast pump, but it can't be sucked out at all. We asked doctors and nurses, and the answer was "Let the baby suck!" I made a very serious mistake and tried for more than an hour to let the baby who had a good impression on his mother's breasts suck the nipples that could not be eaten at all (the hospital said that the baby would suck when he was hungry, and he would naturally eat when he was hungry). As a result, the baby is now more than two months old. As long as I see my breasts, I will definitely cry. What should I do? I can't stand raising milk from 7 am to 3 pm. The nurse aunt said, "If you don't let me rub it, let your husband pack vegetables!" "Chinese cabbage? I seem to have seen it on the internet before, and I didn't care if it was ridiculous at that time. Aunt said that I still felt unreliable, because there was a milk opening service in the contract, so I called the scheduled month center. Who knows that the reservation was made one day in advance as required, NND, who can know this urgent matter one day in advance? But the milkman over there said, "Let aunt wet nurse help you apply cabbage first, and I'll go tomorrow." "Cabbage again. Is it … really useful? Forget it, it's already like this, just try it. So my husband went to Carrefour to buy cabbage. We still argued for a long time about what Chinese cabbage is. Cabbage is round and tightly wrapped, not oval yellow and white. It looks like a large baby dish with soup. Let's talk about how to do it. 1. Throw away the unclean leaves on the outermost layer of Chinese cabbage and slowly remove them from the second layer, preferably completely, because they are semicircles that can be buckled on the chest. 2. A * * * shows almost six or seven pieces, and three pieces are applied to the left and right breasts. When applying, put the smaller leaves in the innermost part, so that the leaves can stick to the skin as much as possible, or tear the leaves apart and stick them to the skin more tightly. 3. Fold the autumn trousers issued by the hospital (you don't have to wash them yourself every day) into a long strip, cover them on the cabbage, and then press the two ends tightly under your body. Of course, people are lying flat on the bed at this time. Cabbage won't fall out if it is pressed tightly. And the hot air of the body will make the cabbage soften faster. 4. Wait for three or four hours, when the leaves are a little soft (theoretically, the leaves were still hard at that time, hehe), then you can pick the cabbage. If the above steps are effective, they should be repeated several times. I had no hope for it at that time, so when I was sitting half-way and felt water dripping down, I thought it was water in the leaves. Later, when I saw the milk being squeezed out, I almost cried ~ ~ ~ When I saw hope, I was not afraid. That night, my aunt changed the cabbage every three or four hours, and my chest was much softer the next morning! Thankfully, I also thank the aunt nurse, hee hee ~ of course, this is only a little. Because milk is stored in the breast for a long time, there are many indurations. Aunt nurse and the milkman who came the next day kept rubbing and rubbing, and they got through a little bit. Next, I'll talk about how to open milk when the milkman comes. After the milk is squeezed out, the breast becomes soft, so it won't hurt so much when pressed gently. The milkman did this: 1. The first step is to apply a hot towel first. After a few minutes, hold a breast pump and squeeze the breast with your fingers in order to suck out all the milk first. The technique is to separate the thumb from the other four fingers (four fingers together), like mittens worn in winter when I was a child. When the breast pump sucks, press your fingers at the same time according to the frequency of sucking one piece at a time. The key points are: the finger is not simply pressed down, but the milk behind the breast is squeezed onto the nipple; Fingers change position in one direction, moving almost the size of a finger at a time, so as to ensure that each breast is squeezed. This action is very convenient for others to do, and it may take two hands to change it into a circle. I used a good woman's electric one at that time, because it was too hard for avent to squeeze by hand (I later learned that the milkman preferred avent, but I couldn't use it myself). Here again, it is normal for avent's manual breast pump to suck nothing out after several squeezes, because there is air in it. Generally, you can feel the pressure after squeezing about ten times, so it's a bit wrong for me to squeeze a few times and throw it aside, hehe. . . 2. Step 2: Massage the breast after milking. Prepare a pot of hot water and apply it every once in a while. Massage in circles where the palm is connected with the wrist, and sometimes massage alternately with four fingertips close together. Press a few times in one direction where there is a lump. It will hurt, but it's no use pressing it without pain. Well, I'm so afraid of pain that people think it's tolerable, which is better than letting the doctor rub it hard. 3. Step 3: Press it several times. Almost half an hour passed. You can check where you need to wipe it again. At the same time, if there is milk coming out, you should suck it from time to time. Colostrum is very precious and cannot be wasted. Later, I had six more breast massages at the Confucius Center. In fact, I always follow the above procedure. I summarized the key points: 1. It is very important to apply hot water, which will greatly relieve the pain and make the milk flow out more easily. Generally, I use the hottest water that my hands can bear. Ask your family to help you heat the water when you massage! 2. With the rhythm of the breast pump, forget the electric one, and the manual one is like avent. If you press it, you don't need to let it go immediately, because if you don't let it go, the pressure in the bottle will stay for a few seconds, so manual extrusion doesn't need to be fast, you can slow it down. At the same time, the action of pushing the breast with the other hand should also match the frequency of the breast pump, one squeezing and one loosening. The hand pushing the breast should move one finger in one direction at a time to ensure that each breast is squeezed. 4. The hard knot must be opened, otherwise it may get bigger and bigger. 5. Many mastitis comes out overnight, so you should sleep on your back at night, and sleeping on your side is easy to squeeze into one breast. 6. At first, the baby ate less. If the milk is good, it may not be finished. Then try to suck the milk clean after the baby eats, which will promote milk secretion and prepare for the baby to increase food intake in the future. 7. If possible, remember to apply some nipple protection cream, usually lanolin. You can squeeze a drop without it. Personally, lanolin cream is more comfortable. 8. That's all for the time being. Consider adding more. I hope the things written above can help some mothers, hehe, my hands are sore. A few days ago, my baby had eczema and did some research. Maybe next time.