At the end of maternity leave, how can working mothers guarantee breastfeeding?

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Don't give up breastfeeding easily

Many mothers have to return to work after maternity leave. At this time, breastfeeding will face many challenges. Some mothers will choose to stop breastfeeding. This is a pity. We encourage mothers to continue breastfeeding after work. This will not only help infants grow and develop healthily, but also allow mothers to maintain intimate parent -child relationship with their children.

Since there are so many benefits to insisting on breastfeeding, how can we overcome difficulties to make work breast milk? Today we will give you a support.

Healthy breastfeeding, what should Baoma prepare before work?

First of all, it is important to learn the correct milking. The mother of the workplace can be milk with hand or breast pump, and the squeezed breasts should be placed in a dedicated milk storage container to store correctly.

Secondly, 1-2 weeks before work, the baby can try to use bottle feeding to let him slowly adapt to avoid the baby's "hunger strike" after leaving.

In addition, the most important thing is that the number of milk during work depends on the size of the baby and the length of the mother's leave of the child. The mother who returns early in the workplace, the ideal milk frequency is based on the frequency of the baby's milk, which takes at least 3 hours. Moms who return to the workplace late can extend the interval between breasts twice appropriately, but should not be longer than 4 hours, especially in the first few days.

How to store the squeezed milk?

In addition to the correct milking, the correct storage of milk is also very important. Moms pay attention that the temperature stored in milk is different, and the shelf life is different. It cannot be generalized.

(1) Interior: It is best to store 4 hours under 16 ° C ~ 29 ° C. It is acceptable to 6 to 8 hours under very clean conditions.

(2) Ice pack: It is safe to store for 24 hours at <15 ℃.

(3) Refrigeration: It is best to store 4 days under 4 ° C conditions. It is acceptable for 5-8 days under very clean conditions.

(4) Frozen: It is best to store 6 months under <-18 ℃ conditions and accept it within 12 months.

Try not to place other foods in the refrigerator that stores milk and keep the refrigerator clean. All stored breast milk should be indicated to the time of suction, which is convenient for the duration of consumption.

How can the stored milk be thawed and reinstated correctly?

▌ Trusting:

(1) Ice milk is most ideal to decharge in the refrigerator. Ice milk can be stored in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

(2) If you want to accelerate the thawing, you can put the milk storage bag in the flowing tap water to retreat.

(3) The milk after thawing should be drunk within 24 hours, and do not freeze again.

▌ Repeat:

(1) Before breastfeeding, use warm water to separate the breast milk at 38-39 ° C. The breast milk that is frozen after frozen can no longer be frozen, only refrigerated. Once the refrigerated breast milk is heated, it can no longer be hidden even if it is not fed.

(2) Do not use a microwave oven or bright fire to heat breast milk, which will destroy the nutritional ingredients in breast milk, and these heating methods are unevenly heated, which may be risk of burning babies.

(3) After the breast milk is placed for a period of time, it will be separated by milk and milk layer. Before feeding the baby, shake it gently. But don't shake the bottle hard.

Tips:

1. Before milk, my mother needs to clean her hands. Because the hands without cleaning may spread bacteria and viruses, affecting the baby's health.

2. After the mother returns to the workplace, due to the pressure of the workplace and the nature of the work, the mother's milk volume will be reduced to a certain extent, but as long as the mother relaxs, adjusts her mentality, milks regularly, feeds the milk, and the amount of milk will be the amount of milk. Will come back slowly.

3. After work, insisting on breastfeeding may bring some inconvenience to mothers at first. Breasts may take a while to adapt to the interval between feeding, so mothers must remember to bring a few more anti -overflow pads with her at work, and then prepare a replacement top to prevent work when leakage.

4. It is recommended that the mother try to find a comfortable, clean, and hidden breast absorption space.

I hope that mothers will be able to adhere to breastfeeding smoothly when they have these knowledge and armed themselves.

This article is the first: pediatric channel in the medical community

Author of this article: Nursing Teacher of the Nursing Department of Shanghai First Maternal and Baby Health Hospital

Review of this article: Director Jianghui, Nursing Department of the First Maternal and Baby Health Hospital of Shanghai

Editor in charge: wen

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