Breast pumps can also leave you hurting if you use them incorrectly. You're pumping, not blow-drying your hair! Use a purified lanolin product, like Lansinoh HPA Lanolin, to soothe nipples after feeding or pumping. Some nursing moms are afraid of being bitten, so they call it quits once baby's first tooth arrives. But babies can't bite when suckling. A curious baby may nip you after she's done eating, but if you pay attention to her cues, you can avoid being nibbled.
Many moms enjoy an unexpected perk while exclusively breastfeeding: They don't menstruate. Here's the rub: You can get pregnant again without having your period, so ask your doctor for an effective birth-control method that won't decrease your milk supply, such as condoms or the copper IUD. Nursing moms should avoid estrogen-containing birth control. Breastfeeding moms are more likely to stand up for their babies' rights, according to a recent study from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the experience doesn't leave them feeling rattled.
For example, defending your baby from a rude stranger could be considered stressful, but breastfeeding moms had significantly lower blood pressure readings than moms who bottle-fed their babies. Your milk supply increases and decreases based on your baby's demand for nourishment, so frequent breastfeeding sessions help bolster a strong supply.
This nifty feature of nursing also ensures that your baby will have enough to eat as her appetite increases. Your baby can also jumpstart your milk let-down reflex; when your body recognizes cues, such as hearing your baby cry, it lets the milk flow. In fact, some working moms record their babies' I'm-getting-hungry cries to help them pump more efficiently at the office.
You may feel like a dairy cow, but many men find their wife stepping into her new role as mother incredibly sexy — and what could be more maternal than feeding your baby?
He won't hate the extra weight you're carrying up top either. The very best thing you can do to set yourself up for a successful breastfeeding experience is take a prenatal nursing class at your community center or hospital. Still, breastfeeding may not work out for you. Claire Fuzesi, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, had every intention of nursing her now month-old twin girls, Chloe and Hannah, but things didn't go according to plan. Within a few weeks, I gave up. I felt zero guilt.
Instead, I was relieved that I could finally relax with my babies. Many moms who decide not to nurse experience backlash from friends and family, but try to tune them out.
And the release of prolactin, another hormone involved in milk production, makes you feel drowsy when you're done. Can you say naptime? Save Pin FB More.
In every case where I was concerned about the number, duration, or intensity, I was reassured to find that the contractions stopped within about minutes of when the nursing session ended. I continued to nurse my son Everest through pregnancy and gave birth to his brother Alden at 39 weeks. I had similar nursing-induced contractions during my next pregnancy, but I was reassured by my previous experiences and did not worry.
The overall lack of noticeable contractions during breastfeeding sessions in pregnancy even among mothers who did feel Braxton-Hicks contractions may have a simple explanation.
Nipple stimulation during pregnancy causes less oxytocin to be released compared with the same amount of nipple stimulation in non-pregnant women. Some fears of breastfeeding during pregnancy may arise in part from an exaggerated idea of the amount of oxytocin released during breastfeeding in pregnant women. Read other excerpts from this book. Nipple stimulation releases the hormone oxytocin into the bloodstream. Oxytocin also tells the uterine tissue to contract.
All women experience uterine contractions during breastfeeding, although they are usually too mild to be noticed. Nipple stimulation can be used to ripen the cervix when a woman is at term, and can also augment labor after it is underway. Postpartum breastfeeding efficiently shrinks the uterus back to pre-pregnancy-size.
This question deserves medical study, and it is important to bear in mind that at this time we do not have one.
At the same time, preliminary data do suggest that breastfeeding and healthy term births are quite compatible. Of course, some pregnancies are not destined to proceed as we hope, whether the mother is breastfeeding or not, and so breastfeeding mothers have suffered their share of preterm labor and miscarriage as well. How might that work? The scientific literature has a lot to tell us about that.
The specter of breastfeeding-induced preterm labor appears to spring in large part from an incomplete understanding of the interactions between nipple stimulation, oxytocin, and pregnancy. The first little-known fact is that during pregnancy less oxytocin is released in response to nipple stimulation than when a woman is not pregnant. But the key to understanding breastfeeding during pregnancy is the uterus itself.
Even a high dose of synthetic oxytocin Pitocin is unlikely to trigger labor until a woman is at term. Instead, the uterus must actively prepare in order for labor to commence. You could say that there are two separate states of being for the uterus: the quiescent baby-holder and the active baby-birther.
These states make all the difference to how the uterus responds to oxytocin, and so, one can surmise, to breastfeeding. These cells are sparse up until 38 weeks, increasing gradually after that time, and increasing fold after labor has begun. A closer look at the molecular biology of the pregnant uterus reveals yet more lines of defense.
And natural oxytocin-blockers, most notably progesterone, stand between oxytocin and its receptor site throughout pregnancy.
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