Expressing breast milk is also an appropriate means of treating
swollen breasts and increasing the amount of milk you produce.
In the event that you are not able to breastfeed your baby at
some stage for any reason, such as if you
are taking medicine that
could affect your baby, or if you go into hospital for a short
period and you cannot breastfeed naturally during the day, then
expressing breast milk will help to
keep up high levels of milk
production during the period when you stop breastfeeding,
because if you stop breastfeeding without expressing milk from
your breast, that will cause the level of milk production to fall,
then when you go back to breastfeeding you will have too little
milk and will be forced to introduce
complementary bottle
feeding because your breast milk will not be enough for your
baby.
Reasons for expressing breast milk
1. If the baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit, such as if he
was born prematurely or is sick.
2. If there are problems with the nipple
that prevent you from
breastfeeding directly, such as cracked nipples, inverted nipples
or pain in the nipples.
3. If there is swelling in the breast.
4. if you have to go back to work and
cannot bring your baby to
work with you
5. If you are not at home for lengthy periods, such as if you are
visiting
relatives or travelling, and you leave the baby with a
nanny or servant.
6. To maintain levels of milk production during a break from
breastfeeding due to illness.
Whatever the case, expressing milk
is the best alternative to
direct breastfeeding when necessary.
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