Preparation for breast feeding baby

Help your child grow up healthy! For, to avoid problems during breastfeeding, you need to start preparing for breast feeding during pregnancy with the help of simple and affordable methods and techniques.

The mammary glands during pregnancy increase and grow heavy, so it's important to choose the right and wearing a comfortable bra, that gently supports and compresses the breast. Depending on changes in breast size bra should be changed periodically, why not buy a lot of laundry – perhaps, pretty soon it will not suit you. The correct bra – This pledge, that the breast does not droop later. Better to have and to wear bras with wide "straps", made of natural fabrics. Pregnant woman should sleep without a bra, to allow the chest to rest easy.

Hygiene breast

Breast need to wash with soap every day, but try not to lather nipples, soap can dry up the delicate skin. Breast is best to wipe tough enough towel.
Check the shape of breast nipple before breastfeeding.

After washing, need to pay attention to the nipples. For some women, there are flat or inverted nipples, that is not an obstacle to breastfeeding. However, the child will be difficult to properly take a nipple in his mouth. To check, how you shape the nipple, gently between thumb and forefinger, squeeze the nipple on opposite sides of the border of the areola. Convex shape of the nipple will stick forward, and drawn completely "hide".

To prepare the chest with flat or inverted nipples for breastfeeding, It should do simple massage the nipples. Hands should be thus washed clean, nails – cut short. Two fingers gently pull the nipple, slightly twisting it.

However, before you begin any of the above massage, check with your doctor, which leads your pregnancy. Stimulating the nipples can lead to uterine contractions, and it is highly undesirable for some states. Pharmacies sell special tools to change the shape of the nipple, the so-called correctors. Wear them need not before 32 weeks of gestation, from five minutes and gradually increasing the wearing time to half an hour a day.

To generate an adequate response nipples and a woman stretching them twice a day during the last trimester of pregnancy is recommended to do a simple exercise – the rhythmic contraction of the base of the nipple between his thumbs first in a horizontal plane, then in the vertical. Exercise is performed in a few minutes.

At the end of the third month of pregnancy when squeezed from the breast can stand a few drops of colostrum. If it remains on the teat, may form a crust, which irritates the skin. During washing the crust must be removed, then rub the nipple towel in different directions. Through 2 month soft towel can be replaced by rigid terry.

Due to the strengthening of procedures nipples can dry out, so it is useful to lubricate them every time a special cream. Slush, creams healthy nipples is not necessary. In no case do not rub nipples alcohol. Breastfeeding with healthy and strong nipples pleasure both – and mothers, and child.

We also recommend that expectant mothers to carry out daily self-massage of the breast. Make it better in the morning and in the evening before going to bed. Self-massage includes simple methods.

1. The circular stroking the chest. We must act with two hands at the same time. Very soft and gentle. Nipple and areola not touch!
2. Stroking the chest first on top of the nipple, then the side and finally the bottom. Both at the same time massaging the prostate.
3. Take the bottom of the left breast in his left hand and gently lift, this time with his right hand gently push the top. Press, This does not mean, Hit hard! All we have done very gently and carefully. Then we perform the same procedure on the right breast.

Perform each technique is necessary for 5 time. This massage breasts harden and useful to you, if there is a need to express milk.

Exercises to support the shape of the breast

Save the form and firmness of your breasts will perform simple physical exercises.

"Prayer"

Stand or sit in a chair directly. Put your hands at chest level, hands together, directed upwards. Elbows to the side. Start with the power to press the lower parts of the palms against each other.

"Bulb"

Starting position is sitting. Hands over your head, hands together, thumbs up. Just squeeze the lower parts of the palms.

Through such training your baby get a good breastfeeding, and you save the beautiful breasts and lovely memories of the infantile period of your child's life.