It is a fairly common problem: the mother tries to express breast milk with a breast pump after breastfeeding her baby to increase its production, but when she sees that the bottle does not fill or does it very slowly, she becomes frustrated.
One becomes so desperate that it even seems that stress seems to block even the outflow of milk.
This situation is so normal that the simple trick to stop looking, shared on her Facebook account by the Zurich lactation consultant, Johanna Sargeant, has gone viral: sheathing the bottle of the breast pump with a baby sock can reach triple the production of breast milk.
The International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) explains how she came up with the idea and why:
“When I was told to express milk after breastfeeding to increase breast milk production, I would sit and watch. I would hold the pump for twenty minutes after feeding my baby to the breast, becoming increasingly demoralized by the lack of milk at the breast. That bottle. I realized that for my own sanity, I had to stop looking! “
But as he admits in his post, easier said than done and he thought of some way to avoid obsessing over it. “So I put on a baby sock.”
The expert in breastfeeding adds that she now advises moms to put a sock around the bottle while they use the breast pump, so that they forget what they are taking and ensures that they are having “incredible results” . She explains that “some women are often getting 2-3 times more milk, not thinking about how much they are pumping.”
In fact, it’s only been a week since he posted the trick on social media, and it has already been shared no less than 8,680 times . Surely this little help seems to work.
Vía | Milk and Motherhood
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