How To Naturally Increase Your Milk Supply

Since we can’t measure breast milk intake the way we can formula, it is easy to be insecure about your milk supply. If you feel your milk supply is low, here are some suggestions on how to increase it: Take care of yourself. Eat well and drink plenty of fluids. During nursing, try not to diet. You are still establishing your supply and need a minimum of 1800 calories each day while you are lactating. Fun fact: if you eat high quality foods and limit fats and sweets, you will usually lose weight more easily than a mother who is formula feeding. Nurse frequently Try to get in a minimum of 8 feedings in 24 hours, and more if possible. Offer both breasts at each feeding. Try “switch nursing”. As your baby nurses he/she will suckle vigorously for a few minutes, then start slowing down. Try switching him/her to the other breast as soon as the sucking slows down (even if it has only been a few minutes). “do this for the other breast until you have offered each breast twice, then let him nurse as long as he wants to. This switch nursing will ensure that he receives more of the higher calorie hindmilk, while also ensuring that both breasts receive adequate stimulation.” Try massaging the breast gently as you nurse. Breast compression is an easy way to help continue the flow of milk once the baby starts falling asleep at the breast, so the baby gets more of the rich, higher calorie hindmilk. Make sure that you are using proper breastfeeding techniques. Make sure your baby is ...
Source: Cord Blood News - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Tags: babies Health Mothers sex and pregnancy sexual health cord blood milksupply Source Type: blogs