Begin by applying a warm flannel or towel to your breasts. Gentle breast massage can help your milk to flow and make it easier to express milk.You can also ask them who else at GOSH can help. If you have any problems with expressing or you are worried about your supply, talk to the nursing staff on the ward looking after you and helping you look after your baby. Double pumping would mean that both breasts would be drained in the time it takes to drain one breast. The whole process of expressing (starting from massaging your breasts to finishing expressing) should take around 25 minutes per breast. Hard breasts redyuce the milk making hormone. You are aiming to always have soft breasts.Express for 2-5 minutes after the last drop of milk as this will help increase your milk supply.Double pumping (expressing both breasts at the same time) is also a good time saver and yields more milk. When expressing you can compress or squeeze your breasts gently.You do this by massaging and using light touch in circular movements around your breasts. Encourage milk flow to your breasts by stimulating your ‘let down’.Some babies will have a smaller or larger capacity. See a rough guide below to help visualise how much breastmilk your baby needs. Hand expressing is a technique that is particularly useful to use when collecting colostrum as you are able to collect every drop. Colostrum is low in volume and high in concentrated nutrition for your baby. Initially you will only see a few drops of the rich first milk called colostrum when you express. Research tells us that a good indicator of how successful breastmilk production will be is by looking at the amount you are expressing at two weeks. For more information, look at the information and videos listed in the useful information section at the end of this page. While they are getting stronger, you can remove milk from your breasts (called ‘expressing’) so your milk can be given to your baby in another way, for example through a feeding tube.Įxpressing is a skill that can take time to learn the staff looking after you and helping you to look after your baby can support you with this. When your baby is born, they may not be ready to feed straight away. Breastfeeding and expressing milk for your baby at GOSH.Transition to adolescent and adult services
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