Breast milk is the healthiest, most natural, and nutritious food for newborns. Therefore, most mothers will breastfeed their babies after birth, but not all mothers can secrete enough milk. Therefore, some mothers may worry about whether they have insufficient milk secretion and want to know how to determine if there is insufficient milk?
Mothers can judge whether they have insufficient breast milk through the following aspects. Firstly, it can be seen from the mother's performance. If the mother secretes sufficient breast milk, there will be a feeling of breast swelling and pain every interval. Moreover, when the breast is swollen, not feeding the baby breast milk or not expressing some breast milk cannot alleviate the pain of breast swelling.
Secondly, it can be seen from the baby's performance that if the mother's milk secretion is insufficient, the baby not only eats for a long time, but also quickly becomes hungry and cries for milk due to low milk intake. At the same time, the baby's urine output will also decrease accordingly, less than 6 times a day, resulting in slow baby development, slow weight gain, and poor mental state.
Based on the above two aspects, if a mother determines that she has insufficient breast milk, she should take other measures, such as adding some milk powder to the baby appropriately to ensure that the baby has sufficient nutrition supply. At the same time, the mother should continue to breastfeed because the baby's sucking helps stimulate prolactin secretion, thereby increasing milk secretion. She should also eat more foods with lactation promoting effects to help milk secretion.
