Techniques for extracting milk manually

Techniques for extracting milk manually

Techniques for extracting milk How to express milk manually: Wash your hands before starting the extraction; Sit back, put your thumb over the top of the areola and the indicator at the bottom of the areola and press towards the chest (ribs). Do not slide your fingers do not hurt;

Then close your 2 fingers (as if to make a pinch); Repeat the movement (press and release then) usually is not painful. If pain is because you are not performing the technique correctly; Milk gets going, first in small quantity and then in larger quantities; To avoid damaging your mama put your fingers in different positions.

E.g. placing them laterally (indicator on one side of the areola and thumb on the opposite side of the areola) and repeat the extraction technique; Make milk expression until you feel that the breast is no longer tense. How to extract milk mechanically:  it is a must read guide

Wash your hands before starting the extraction; Sit comfortably; Ensure that all equipment (extractor) is cleaned and sterilized (at home); Proceed to the extraction. Blockage of the ducts (lumps in the breast) In nipple opens up about 10 to 20 channels that drain the milk. It may happen that some of these channels becoming clogged, possibly because milk was thick. You can feel a lump (swelling) in a painful part of the breast, and the place turn reddish. Not usually arises fever and feels well.