How long after anesthesia can I breastfeed?

When a mother needs anesthesia to treat an illness, she is very worried that the anesthetic components in her breast milk will affect the health of the child. In fact, the anesthetic is metabolized very quickly in the body and can generally be completely metabolized within six hours. Therefore, you can breastfeed normally after six hours. During this period, you need to drain the milk and drink plenty of water.

Breastfeeding precautions

For new mothers, many things during breastfeeding, such as feeding posture and feeding time, need to be relearned and paid attention to.

1. Breastfeeding posture

Correct feeding posture is important for breastfeeding

When feeding the baby, the mother can completely relax herself, sit or lie in a comfortable position, and use pillows or quilts to support herself or the baby during breastfeeding. Let the baby be close to the mother, with his face facing the mother's breast and his nose facing the nipple, so that the baby can suck comfortably.

2. Pay attention to night feeding

Many mothers feel very tired during the confinement period. Coupled with the constant feeding and changing diapers for their babies during the day, they feel even more sleepy at night. New mothers must be careful when feeding their babies at night. If they feed while lying down, they must avoid blocking the baby's nostrils with their breasts.

3. How often should you breastfeed?

It is recommended that newborns be fed on demand, generally every 2 to 3 hours during the day. In the first 3 months after the baby is born, breastfeeding is needed 8 to 10 times every 24 hours. Breastfeeding often helps a mother's body produce more milk and prevents her breasts from becoming too full.

Precautions for breastfeeding

Timely milk production after delivery is the basis for successful breastfeeding. New mothers should pay attention to eating some milk-producing foods after delivery and avoid eating foods that will cause milk to dry up.

1. Let the baby suck the nipple in time

This is very important for both the mother and breast fullness. Breastfeed your baby as soon as possible after delivery to stimulate milk secretion. It's best to feed your baby within the first hour after birth, and then every time your baby shows signs of hunger.

2. Foods that promote milk secretion

What should new mothers eat to help them produce milk? Mothers can try lactation-promoting foods such as peanuts, loofah, wild rice stem, peas, tofu, soup, black sesame, lettuce, and day lily. These are very beneficial for early milk production. Widely recommended milk-inducing recipes include: pig's trotter milk-inducing soup, crucian carp soup, shrimp wonton soup, and donkey-hide gelatin and jujube soup. >> Lactation-enhancing recipes

3. Foods that can help wean your baby

Typical foods that can help with weaning include: barley tea, maltose, leeks, peppers, aniseed (fennel), and MSG. In addition, ginseng, hawthorn, chocolate, bitter melon, beans, ginseng, mushrooms, eggplant, grapefruit, lotus root, fungus, chocolate, bamboo shoots, oatmeal, ham, etc. are also believed to have the effect of helping with weaning.