How to stimulate lactation on your own? New mothers must know

Due to various complex reasons, some mothers will have very little milk. On the one hand, they can seek help from professionals to stimulate milk production. On the other hand, they need to learn some methods to stimulate milk production, such as letting the baby suck more, supplementing themselves with nutrition, regulating their emotions, etc.

1. Strengthen the baby's sucking. Experiments have shown that after the baby feeds, the prolactin in the mother's blood will increase exponentially. This is because when the baby sucks the nipple, it stimulates the mother's pituitary gland to secrete prolactin, thereby increasing milk secretion.

2. Avoid taking medicine. During the breastfeeding period, mothers should not take any medicine randomly. Some medicines and foods can affect the secretion of breast milk, such as antithyroid drugs, hawthorn, etc. If you are sick, it is best to take medicine under the doctor's orders.

3. Supplement nutrition. All the nutrients in breast milk come from the mother's body. If the mother is in a state of malnutrition for a long time, it will naturally affect the normal milk secretion. During the breastfeeding period, you can choose foods with high nutritional value, such as milk, eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc. At the same time, prepare more soup, which can catalyze the secretion of milk.

4. Maintain a good mood. After giving birth, mothers will experience greater mood swings due to physiological and environmental factors, and often become depressed, which will restrict the secretion of breast milk. Medical experiments have shown that when a mother is depressed, her milk secretion will decrease sharply. Therefore, mothers should adjust their mentality and stay cheerful and optimistic. Family members should also create a good living environment and pay more attention to the mother's mental health.

5. Diet therapy. On the basis of taking the above measures, combining them with lactation-promoting foods, the effect will be more obvious. Foods such as pig's trotters and peanuts can promote the secretion of milk.

Lactation remedies:

1. 60 grams of peanuts, half a tael of rice wine, and half a tael of brown sugar. Cook the peanuts first, then add the rice wine and brown sugar and cook briefly, and eat the whole thing with the soup; or cook the peanuts into porridge; or stew the peanuts with pork tripe (or pig's trotters) and eat the whole thing with the soup.

2. Stew about 1 jin of fresh crucian carp with half a liang of rice wine, eat the fish and drink the soup.

3. Take a live crucian carp (about 500 grams), remove the scales and intestines, wash it, cook it until half-cooked, add half a tael of rice wine, and stew it. Eat the fish and drink the soup once a day. Or take a live crucian carp, add 10 grams of tongcao, boil it into a thick soup without salt, and take it once a day.

4. Cut off the whiskers and legs of 2 liang of fresh prawns, cook them into soup and add half a liang of rice wine. Eat the shrimps and drink the soup. Alternatively, fry the shrimps and mix with rice wine, eat three times a day.

5. Put 30 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus and 10 grams of Tongcao into a gauze bag. 2 pig's trotters and one or two shrimps, stew with the medicine. Simmer over open flame until the meat is tender, then remove the herbs. Eat the meat and drink the soup, adding a little salt for seasoning.

6. Add 1 pig's trotter, 2 sections of green onion, 2 taels of tofu, appropriate amount of water, simmer for half an hour, then add half a tael of rice wine and a little salt, and eat after cooking.