"Breast engorgement", Advantages and Disadvantages

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Abundant milk production was the hope of many breastfeeding mothers. But mothers know that the abundant milk production must be balanced with the habit of feeding the baby more often. If the mother does not work then it is not a problem, but what if the mother is an employee or a worker who must return to work after the expiry of maternity leave? This is what mothers need to know.

Breast engorgement is a condition in which postpartum breast feels very full by the ASI, tense and painful. The cause is an imbalance between milk supply and baby's needs. This condition generally occurs when the mother suddenly stopped giving her milk before their time.

Engorgement can occur:
• When you first ran in breast milk, during the first few days after birth.
• When mothers breastfeeding normal and routine, but it can not pump their milk according to milk production.
• When the mother and the baby suddenly stopped breast-feeding and breast milk consumption.
• When babies begin to reduce the breast, usually occurs when babies start eating solid food enhancement, or when the baby's illness is marked by decreasing the desire / passion to feed.

Begins producing breast milk after two to five days after giving birth. At that time your breasts will feel warm and heavy. Some mothers feel the swelling and discomfort because of it.

Breast milk is filled with excessive swelling and pain will be felt, it can stimulate the occurrence of acute engorgement, it is usually because:
• Waiting too long to nurse a newborn baby (without early initiation).
• Mother does not want to breastfeed, although the production of enough milk.
• Breastfeeding a bit so as not to evacuate and drain the breast of milk.

This acute engorgement will cause the baby to suck hard on mothers and suckle properly, so that:
• Babies do not consume enough milk.
• Breast is not quite empty and depleted.
• Putting the pain will be felt because of the broken. This is because the baby tries to suck the breast that is fully charged. If you then reduce breast-feeding mothers, the lessons will be re-inflamed and engorgement will deteriorate.

Symptom

This occurs when engorgement breast milk when breastfeeding or pumping out is not as much production is going so full of breast milk. Mothers who experience this will feel:
• Breast feels enlarged, tense and sore. When acute engorgement, the breasts will be swollen, hard, look shiny, warm and supple to the touch.
• Mom will feel the lessons were flattened, and the area around the nipple will seem darker, called the areola and very hard.
• Babies will be difficult to find the nipple, and when I found the baby will be working hard to suck the breast so the nipple can be injured due to the baby business.
• Low maternal fever (body temperature around 37.8 degrees Celsius). If body temperature continues to rise immediately to a doctor.
• Lymph nodes around the armpit to swell the mother and the sick.

Complications and consequences

Without treatment, acute engorgement will cause blockage of channels in the breast milk and cause infection of the breast known as mastitis (breast inflammation).

Care and Treatment

Swelling of the breast is no need to worry excessively and mother can treat and conduct their own treatment at home unless a symptom of infection or mastitis, which may require the mother to consume antibiotics.

These steps can be taken to treat their own mothers to reduce swelling include:
• If the nursing mother, treatment is focused on improving the flow of breast milk with more frequent feeding. Make sure baby is nursing properly and fairly. Usually with this step within 12 to 24 hours later the discomfort is felt will disappear.
• If the mothers do not breastfeed, breast enlargement will cause the breasts to stop producing milk. This discomfort usually disappears after the first variable to 5 days.

Prevention

If the mother plans to breastfeed the baby, then:
• Begin feeding the baby as soon as possible after birth and continue onwards with more often, every 1 to 2 hours while the mother was awake.
• Breastfeeding every one to two hours on the first few days this will reduce the likelihood of engorgemen.
• Make sure the breast soft enough so the baby can breastfeed correctly. If the production of extra milk, so breastfeeding mothers should be pumping out up to breast feels empty after each feeding.
• Try to breastfeed your baby no less than 15 minutes each time breastfeeding, although this may change over time of infant growth.
When the baby is already full or reduced desire to feed, then:
• If the milk production remains high, wipe or guyur breasts with warm water with a shower. Let the warm water flowed across the surface of the breast that would accelerate softening the nipple and breast milk will come out with its own excess.
• If milk flow does not feel perfect, a towel soaked in warm water can be used to mebungkus breasts before breast-feeding mothers. Stimulation of warm milk will help the flow is maintained.
• If the mother works and the difficulty to breastfeeding mothers on a regular basis so make sure to regularly manually pumping breast milk at least every three to four hours.
If engorgement had occurred and the mother still wants to breastfeed, then:
• soften the nipple and areola before breast-feeding to prevent luga start of the nipple.
• If the milk exiting the overflow by itself, it first compresses the breast with warm water before feeding.
• Breast Pump in soft tissues and membranes that contained in the breast does not hurt. Make sure the breasts sucked and drained after each feeding and the mother can save them in the refrigerator.
• To prevent swelling, tense, hard and pain caused by the mother can do:

• Taking anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuproven, certainly with a doctor's prescription.
• cold compresses every 15 minutes to prevent tissue damage in the breast. Cold compresses should not put ice directly on the breast that would be harmful to tissue in the breast.
• The mother may try to use sheets to cover the breast cabbage in her bra and replace every two hours. This mode can be quite helpful, only this way could allow the production of breast milk decreases.
• Wear loose-fitting bra that does not reduce breast. Bras that are too tight can push the breast which in turn will reduce the flow of breast milk that can lead to blockage in the flow of breast milk.

If mothers do not breastfeed and experience engorgement, then the mother can do one or more of the following steps to reduce the discomfort:
• If the engorgement has happened, do not pump all the milk directly. This would likely spur increased milk production and makes engorgement worse. Breast pump to taste until the mother felt comfortable enough alone.
• Ibuproven for additional medication.
• Cold Compress
• Bra that suit their needs and not pressing.
How the choice of breastfeeding or not to remain in the mother. Remember, the quality of breast milk is not replaceable by any milk production. Then what are mothers waiting for?
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Baby Burping

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Breastfeeding is a new experience for every mother who gave birth. Exciting and always interesting because of ignorance of what is to be faced after feeding. An important note is worth a try and burp the baby.

Burp your baby helps remove swallowed air tends during lactation. If the air does not come out and tend to be much ingested when feeding can cause infant vomiting after feeding. Suspected infant colic and discomfort during sleep, among others, also caused by the accumulation of this gas.

Burping the baby, among others, can be cultivated in a way

• Sit up straight and put the baby on your chest. Put your chin on your shoulder baby (baby facing backwards) when you carry her with one hand while the other one hand patting your baby's back gently. With the help of a little wobble can also be done so that baby can be finished feeding burp.
• baby lap (in the upper thigh) with a sitting position facing forward, hold the baby in the chest like hanging with one hand while your other hand gently patted his back to help baby burp.
• Lay the baby on your lap with the prone position. Make sure the baby's head propped up by strong and its position is slightly higher than his chest. Do this while gently patting the baby's back.

Burping techniques can be performed and selected in accordance with the developing baby. When your baby is getting bigger, you need not worry if your child does not burp during or after each meal. That means that your baby has learned to eat without swallowing excess air.

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Are You Pregnant Ready, Mother?

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Ideally pregnancy is planned before, even when it was planned a year before conception. For the couple it's good to prepare the emotional side each to become parents. Then have your body to pregnant?

To prepare for pregnancy is a good idea to visit a doctor where a couple later guided ginecologycally to be pregnant as soon as possible.

Contraceptives you use
If couple use pills, doctors will recommend to stop the consumption of these pills. This will enable the system to improve reproductive cycle menstruasi normal before conception - so the ovulation time where the condition of women in a very fertile will easily determined. When cessationof pill initercourse should not occured on the fertile period is only until the normal cycle menstruasi on the mother so that conception occurs only at the most appropriate period.

Whether the mother has been vaccinated?
Smallpox infection, rubella and hepatitis type B is very harmful to the fetus in the womb. If mothers do not complete the immunization list, you should immediately do so, at least a month or more before conception plan.

Whether the mother has a special medical condition?
If the mother has a chronic disease that must be considered specifically as diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure, then this chronic condition can be controlled before and during conception. Doctors recommend that mothers can do to a certain therapy treatment before pregnancy occurs. Doctors will also immediately explain special conditions that must be awared in pregnant period later.

Whether mothers are consuming any medications or supplements?
Tell the doctor about your medication therapy if you are in the middle of therapy series or your herbal supplements. So the doctor can recommend a change dose or stop treatment or supplements that you are consumed before. Usually copule recommended to consume vitamin. Why you should as soon as this? Tuba neuralis (humans tube) fetus - which later becomes the brain and spinal nerve fetus-form since the first month of pregnancy, perhaps even before the mother realized that her pregnancy. For the pre-pregnancy vitamin is an ultimate way to protect the growth of tuba neuralis.

Are you vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease?
Sexually transmitted diseases increase the risk of miscarriage, such as the occurrence of ectopic pregnancy/pregnancy outside the uterus where the egg mother cell that has been fertilized will embedded outside the womb or other pregnancy complications. If couple includes or vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases, will usually be advisable to do thorough inspections and special therapy.

Is there a family history of certain medical conditions?
Sometimes the family health history is important information to detect possible harm that can be derived on the genetic fetus. Uterus so that doctors can perform genetic testing before conception occurs.

How old are you, mother?
Above the age of 35 years will increase the risk of pregnancy. Risk of pregnancy can include miscarriage, chromosome aberration and premature birth. Some of the specific disease such as diabetes that normally experienced women aged above 35 years must also be awared. Usually doctor will give the actual solutions that are specific so that pregnancy can also occur in the best condition.

Whether maternal lifestyle support health pregnancy?
Discuss with your doctor the actual condition of health as the most optimal choice Feed food, sports and keep the stress low. If the mother has excess body weight doctor would recommend to immediately reduce the weight before conception. Also important to avoid alcohol and drugs abuse. Similarly, if the mother is an active smoker.

How do I pair with lifestyle?
Try to consult to obstetricians physician together as a couple. Health of each pair is very important including health history of each pair so that all risk factors that may later be faced can be minimalized.

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