Breast Compressions

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The breast is made up of soft tissue, with a fine line of milk ducts running over the tisue, and under the skin. They are producing milk constantly, and the act of pressing down gently on the breast, will make the milk flow faster while you press down. When you release, the flow drops back to normal.

This is what your milk ducts look like, and where they are in the breast:
http://www.biochem.biomedchem.uwa.edu.au/Our_People/home_pages/academic_staff/hartmann/peter_hartmann/download

Breast compression, as Dr Jack Newman explains clearly here, can help when you have a struggling baby who is upset milk isn't coming out fast enough. It's a way of using the milk production system in the breast, to encourage faster flow just when you need it.

http://www.kellymom.com/bf/supply/milkproduction.html

Not every mother will need to use breast compressions, but it is a useful tool in the toolbox. It is important to squeeze down gently, in a massage motion, as opposed to a pinch. Restricting the milk ducts, with too tight a bra, or restrictive closing, or pinching them hard, can cause plugged ducts, which are painful, and can lead to mastitis, an infection.

This is an excellent handout that explains breast compressions:

http://www.kellymom.com/newman/15breast_compression.html

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    wow, I shoud read more about islam

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  • ofcourse a baby / ...

    ofcourse a baby / child is smarter when breast feed. dont u realise that breast milk is specially designed for babies. It contains everything a baby needs.
    Cows milk is for cows
    breast milk is for babies

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    I wish everyone could see this video, especially people in the womens health field.

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    Absolutely.

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    we muslims give breastsfeeding for two years to our babies...because its in the Quran..and recently Doctors proovs that breastfeedin for two years makes the babies more stronger and have more self deffence..God is the greatest

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  • Well, that's just ...

    Well, that's just bollocks. :-) Breastmilk is designed for optimum human growth. It's the normal food for humans, and anything other than breastmilk in the first six months will be less effective in body and brain building, than The Real Stuff.

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    i heard also that breast milk makes an adult smarter but weak? ^____^

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    That's a really complicated one. As breastfeeding is the normal human behviour then the more 'correct' way to put it is that _not_ breastfeeding, makes you less smart. In other words, you miss out on what breastmilk is designed to do - may you grow! New evidence shown that 90% of babies get brain building benefits from breastmilk. So, for 90% of babies, those on formula, will be less smart, than those on the real stuff. So yes, breastfeeding makes you smarter! :-)

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    I heard breast feeding makes babies smarter.

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    I'm pleased you got such excellent support! Very few mothers do, and it's a crying shame.

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  • my hospital did the ...

    my hospital did the opposite. i was finding breastfeeding so hard i begged the midwives to give me a bottle of formula and they did everything they could to convince me to try again. in the end they could really see my frustration so they let me have the bottle, but i had to sign a consent form etc... baby hated the formula so they taught me how to put him on the breast properly and now i can do it well

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