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Instructions to express breast milk by hand to help milk out more, breasts not sag
Expressing breast milk can help mothers have more time to rest, eat or when mothers are not near their babies but still want their babies to be provided with all the valuable nutrients from breast milk. This also means ensuring the secretion of breast milk regularly.
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How is breast milk "produced"?
In most cases, breast milk is produced on demand. The more frequently and effectively your baby nurses, the more milk your body will produce.
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How do I know if my baby has had enough?
First-time mothers who exclusively breastfeed their babies will probably wonder about this many times and constantly worry about whether their baby is full or not? Is the baby getting enough milk? Is the amount of milk enough for the baby to gain weight? After leaving the mother's womb, the baby sleeps lethargically, do you need to wake the baby up to breastfeed? The reason is that mothers often worry that not getting enough milk will affect the baby's physical and mental development.
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How long does reheated breast milk last?
Breast milk after heating or thawing can only be used within 24 hours and needs to be kept in the refrigerator. After this period of time, if the baby does not finish drinking, the mother must throw away the remaining milk. This milk cannot be used to make yogurt from breast milk but must be discarded.
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How long is it safe to warm expressed breast milk?
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months is a great idea. However, expressing and storing breast milk requires hygiene and safe storage temperatures.
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Recommendation: Do not wean children in the summer
Hot summer weather makes children sweat a lot and often thirsty. Breast milk is not only a source of nutrition but also helps replenish water and necessary electrolytes, helping children quench their thirst and increase resistance to common summer diseases.
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Thawed breast milk: Do not reheat again and again
Breast milk is the best nutritional food for babies, especially for babies under 1 year old. However, mothers should know how to defrost and reheat breast milk properly to ensure maximum nutrition for their children.
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Instructions for warming breast milk properly
Breast milk is the best source of nutrition for children, especially children under 1 year old, because breast milk contains all the necessary nutrients. When a mother has to go back to work soon after giving birth and cannot breastfeed her baby, the best way is to express milk and leave it at home for the baby to eat.
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Signs of spoiled breast milk
Breast milk has all the necessary nutrients such as sugar, protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals in the right proportions for the child's absorption and development. Therefore, even though there is no time to breastfeed directly, many mothers still try to pump and preserve milk so that their children can use it gradually. However, during the preservation process, for many reasons, it is inevitable that there will be times when thawed breast milk has a sour smell, strange taste... So when seeing unusual signs, how can mothers know whether the milk can be used or not?
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Can reheated formula be reheated?
Because formula milk is not the same as natural breast milk, to get a glass of formula milk for the baby, the mother must be meticulous and careful from choosing the milk, the bottle to mixing the milk according to the instructions. In addition, some mothers also heat up the mixed formula milk for the baby to drink. Does this affect the quality of the milk?
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How to keep the breast pump clean
Keeping the parts of the breast pump clean is very important, because external bacteria can grow quickly in breast milk or residue left on the pump can affect the baby's weak immune system.
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