Tips to increase milk production during lactation
The breastmilk It is the first food of newborns. A product that offers babies numerous benefits and that also has positive results for mothers. In fact, many women fear not producing enough to support their children, a concern that leads these moms to rely on undesirable techniques as indicated by several pediatricians.
In fact, from the Spanish Association of Pediatrics, AEP, it is recommended to mothers that before resorting to items such as medicines to increase the production of milk try other less dangerous techniques. From new positions to other placements for the baby can contribute to this purpose without the need to resort to external agents.
Every mother produces milk
If the concern is the production of milk, from AEP it is remembered that every mother is capable of producing this food. Only in certain situations where a disease It affects the organism it is possible to find a woman who can not breastfeed her child in this way.
Although it is true that the production of this food is scarce. For them from AEP these techniques are suggested:
- Check the position of the child or the grip of the chest. If the child's posture is not correct, even if there is milk, the baby can not get it. In the long run, as the breast is not emptied, the breasts stop producing the amount of food the child needs.
- If the baby supports his head on the elbow of his mother, the mother is forced to move the chest a few centimeters so that the child can grab him. Even though the suction is powerful, the baby will pull on the nipple and it will be more difficult to get the milk with each suction.
- If the baby does not fully open his mouth to cover a large part of the areola and nipple or has a short lingual frenulum, he will make ineffective suctions with what he will be sucking for a long time, since he only gets the milk from the beginning and does not he is satisfied.
When to use other means?
The AEP also talks about the galatogogues, medicines that act by increasing milk production. Among the most common are sulpiride, metoclopramide and domperidone. They are effective, but their use is recommended for a short period of time and always under medical supervision. Like any drug, they have side effects, although if they are used correctly they are a good tool.
Before its use it is recommended to try several of the previously used techniques and consult with the specialist. Its use is indicated in these cases where milk production is scarce:
- Forced separation of mother and baby.
- Mothers of premature babies.
- Restart breastfeeding after having stopped breastfeeding for a while.
- Induced breastfeeding.
Damián Montero
