How can breasts produce more milk during lactation

In order to better nourish the child, new mothers should promote the secretion of milk in their daily care, which will help the child's growth and development. Breast milk is the best food, which is also very beneficial for improving the child's immunity. In order to reach the lactation period, the breasts can produce more milk. In daily life, you should eat more foods that help promote milk secretion. In addition, you should let the baby suck more.

Increase nutrition, eat more foods rich in protein, fat, and carbohydrates, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, ensure the intake of vitamins, and soups are also essential. There are two types of lactation-promoting soups commonly consumed after childbirth:

1. Mothers with weak qi and blood and insufficient milk should choose to eat foods such as pig's trotters, crucian carp, fish heads, peanuts, sheep's trotters, soybeans, tofu, and red beans.

2. Mothers who have swollen breasts, blocked mammary glands and lack of breast milk can choose to eat loofah, amaranth, celery, lettuce, papaya, etc., which can soothe the liver and promote qi, and unblock the meridians and promote lactation.

Mothers should pay attention to being in a happy mood after giving birth: mental factors have a certain impact on postpartum lactation. Therefore, mothers should pay attention to maintaining a good mood after giving birth, forget their worries for the time being, put housework behind them, and fully rest their bodies. Mental excitement and pleasure will increase the level of prolactin in the body, thereby increasing milk supply as soon as possible. Mothers should not always worry too much about whether the baby is full or developing normally. This will make them feel worse and naturally reduce the amount of milk secreted.

3. Massage the breasts: Before each breastfeeding, the mother should cover the left and right breasts with a hot and wet towel, gently press the nipples and areolas with both palms, and massage in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction for 10-15 minutes. This stimulation can cause the pituitary gland to release oxytocin, which promotes the secretion of milk.

Other treatment options: It is best for mothers to increase their milk supply through the above natural methods. If the above methods are tried and still do not produce sufficient milk, mothers can also take some Chinese medicine or cooperate with acupuncture treatment.

Foods to eat more after giving birth

1. Staple foods and beans: rice, millet, brown rice, black rice, cornmeal, wheat flour, oats, buckwheat, red beans, kidney beans, black beans, other soy products, etc.

2. Meat, eggs and milk: pork, beef, chicken, duck, pig's trotters, pig liver, rabbit meat, crucian carp, sea bass, grass carp, shrimp, sea cucumber, squid, oysters, eggs and milk, etc.

3. Vegetables: eggplant, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, winter melon, loofah, spinach, celery, rapeseed, lotus root, kelp, onion, seaweed, yam, etc.

4. Fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, papayas, strawberries, watermelons, kiwis, lemons, sugar cane, dates, etc.

5. Others: peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts and other nuts.

Chinese medicine with lactation-promoting effect

1. Winter melon seeds: Winter melon seeds can promote lactation and can treat postpartum symptoms such as insufficient milk, difficulty in milk discharge, and breast pain.

2. Vaccaria segetalis and pangolin: if women take these, their milk will flow more frequently. To treat insufficient milk or poor milk discharge, you can boil pig trotters with fenugreek and add pangolin, tongcao, astragalus, etc.

3. Tongcao: It is used for postpartum women with low milk secretion and is a commonly used medicine for lactation. It is often used in combination with fenugreek and pangolin, as in the lactation recipe.

4. King melon and wild melon root: They are often used in lactation medicines.

5. Talc: promotes lactation and promotes abortion.

6. Adzuki bean: It can help with the secretion of placenta and lactation, from Compendium of Materia Medica; drinking the juice of adzuki bean can help with the secretion of lactation, from Prescriptions for Childbirth