How to make your breast produce a lot of breast milk? Follow these tips below to have smoothly breastfeeding and produce enough breast milk for your baby.

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Increase the frequency of breastfeeding / pumping / breastfeeding rack.

If the child would not suckle because still satisfied, please squeeze / pump your breast milk. Remember! Breastmilk production based on demand principle, the same principle like a factory. If the more often taken (fed / squeezed / pumped) then the more breastmilk will be produced.

Clear the breast after the children finished breastfeeding.

This criticism is related to some point above. The often empty, the breastmilk production is also well.

Not less important: the mother must be in circumstances RELAKS.

Psychological condition of breastfeeding mothers determine the success of exclusive breastfeeding. According to the results of research,> 80% more mothers breastfeeding in the failure to give exclusive breastfeeding is breastfeeding mother psychological factors. Remember: If you think you won’t produce enough breast milk, then at the same time hundreds of sensors in the brain hormone will ordered oxitosin (breastmilk production) for working slowly. And finally decreased breastmilk production.

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Just relax mom

This is actually the role of the father.

If the father give support, the breast milk will be smoothly. support can be a variety of ways ranging from inspirit wife to other things like help the baby belching after suckled, hold the baby for breastfeed to his mother, e.t.c.

Avoid giving baby milk formula

Sometimes as many parents still feel that her breastmilk is not enough or worry to the baby is not satisfied, and then providing baby milk formula to her child. In fact

the baby milk formula would cause the breastmilk does not smoothly. Children suckle relatively inert or even confused the hilt, especially when baby milk formula using feeding bottle. Once the babies are given formula milk, so when he suckle on his mother will be satiety. So that the reduced volume of breastmilk. Dairy milk more often given the less breastmilk you produce.

Avoid the use of feeding bottle

If you want to give squeezed / pumped breast milk (or choose baby milk formula) to the baby, try to use the spoon, not a dot (feeding bottle)! When the mother gives her breastmilk using dot, then the child can experience confuse (nipple confusion). Conditions where only a baby suckle at the tip of the stalk as the dot suckle. In fact, suckle in the right way is the whole areola (the dark bag. around the hilt breast) mother into the baby’s mouth. Finally, the small so averse suckle directly from the breast because he felt how difficult it is spent breastfeeding. Meanwhile, if suckle from the feeding bottle, with just a few pressure to the bottle, milk will directly flow out. Therefore, avoid the use of dot.

Go to lactation clinic

Do not hesitate to contact the clinic or consulting with lactation. There mother and father get technically feedback to keep optimum breastfeeding.

Mother breastfeeding consume nutritious food

Do breast treatment: Massage your breast and compress with warm water & cold water alternately.

Be from various sources (AAP, La Leche league, breastfeeding.com, WHO, etc.) and written by Luluk Lely Soraya I