Breast is one of the women's part of the body which suffers a lot of changes during pregnancy, and after giving birth, during breastfeeding. That is why, it is so important to take care of your breast during all this period.
Here are some tips, some of them are inspired from literature that I have read, others from my own experience. I hope these tips will help you as well.
1. Use suitable breastfeeding bra, that are comfortable for you.
2. Mantain you normal way of hygiene, wash your breast with pure water. Do not use in excess soap, lotions or cream, these can damage areola.
3. If you need to use a cream, try to use only creams rich in Vitamin E, only these help to prevent stretch marks.
4. Once your baby finished, apply some milk on the nipples, as our milk has different antiinflamatory components. From my experience it works better than any other cream to hydrate your nipples, in the first days of breastfeeding.
5. Alternate the breasts while feeding, try to evit the colapse of the breast. If your baby do not want to eat, it is good to extract milk and to reserve it for later feed.
6. Do not take out your breast promptly from the mouth of your baby, this action can damage your nipples. Use your finger to cut the vacuum that have been created with the mouth of your baby, and only then you can take your breast out.
7. Make regular massage to your breast. This helps from engorgement.
8. Do not expose directly your nipples to the sun.
9. Make some excercise for breast muscles. It is great to swim, yoga or pilates, but before doing this ask your doctor.
10. If you use absorbent discs, try to change them regularly to evit humedity.
Keep breastfeeding, I am sure you are doing a great job.
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