When milk appears after delivery
After giving birth, the woman begins to stand outcolostrum. Its amount can be small - 5-6 drops, maximum - 70-100 ml. Sometimes colostrum appears only on the second or third day after birth. After about 6 days of lactation, the female body begins to produce mature milk.
When milk appears, you need to feed your baby asmore often Photo: Getty These figures are approximate. In primiparas, the formation of lactation can take more time, and in the case of moles, this process is faster. A sharp increase in the amount of breast milk is called a tide. Filling of the breast occurs in the period from 3 to 9 days after delivery.
What to do to have milk
The main thing - do not panic if milk is not yet. Calm mood and compliance with the rules of applying to the chest will do their job. Conditions for becoming lactation:
At the first failures it is not necessary to give to the kida bottle with a mixture or a pacifier. Feeding and sucking dummy can cause a decrease in milk production and cause a rejection of the breast. When milk appears, a woman can feel the engorgement of the mammary glands, their soreness and fever. But eventually it will pass. The body will produce exactly as much milk as a small person needs. If you will feed the child on demand and be with him constantly, lactation will be adjusted within 3-5 days after delivery. There are exceptions, in such cases, you can ask for help from counselors for breastfeeding. Remember that there is no better food than mother's milk for a child. Read also:
