How long after drinking can I breastfeed?

If you are breastfeeding, you absolutely cannot drink alcohol, even if it has been a long time since you drank. This is very bad for your baby's body, so it must be absolutely prohibited. In addition, you must pay attention to the posture when breastfeeding, otherwise it will make the baby feel uncomfortable while feeding, resulting in choking.

After the first birth, the mother should wear soft fabric clothes and avoid wearing chemical fiber or rough clothes to prevent adverse stimulation to the nipples.

Babies should be allowed to suckle milk early and can be breastfed within half an hour after birth. Let the baby hold most of the areola in his mouth. Feeding can be continued for half an hour each time, alternating between the two breasts. Even if there is no milk, the baby should be encouraged to suck.

When you are not breastfeeding, try to keep the mother and baby in the same room, and don't be afraid of the baby making you cry. Because mother-child touch, baby crying, mother-child eye contact, baby smell, etc. can not only enhance the mother-child relationship, but also are good stimulation signals that can effectively stimulate the lactation system, relieve the inhibition of the hypothalamus, lead to increased prolactin, and natural milk secretion.

The breasts should be emptied as much as possible during each feeding to stimulate the mammary glands to secrete more milk. Even if you don't have enough breast milk, don't use formula to make up for it, as this will easily lead to less and less breast milk secretion. During breastfeeding, you should avoid eating raw, cold, spicy and alcoholic foods.

2. Methods

Mothers should not feed their babies at regular times, but should feed according to their babies' needs. Especially in the first few days after the baby is born, the number of times the baby is breastfed should be increased accordingly. This can meet the baby's needs, help the secretion of prolactin, and then increase the amount of milk. In short, don't wait until your baby is very hungry to feed him.

Within one month after the baby is born, try to avoid feeding the baby with a bottle. Once the baby starts eating from a bottle, it will be difficult for the baby to learn the correct way to suck the nipple. In addition, sucking on a rubber nipple is less tiring and will make the baby unwilling to drink breast milk.

If the mother plans to start working after 3 months, she should start introducing the bottle around the full month of the baby to let the baby get used to bottle-feeding with breast milk. Feed only once a day, observe that the baby is not affected by breast milk, and then gradually increase the number of times he feeds with a bottle.

As long as you pay attention to the breastfeeding method, you can prevent the baby from spitting up milk after drinking milk. These methods are: feed calmly and slowly; avoid sudden interruptions during feeding; avoid stimulation of noise or bright lights, or other distractions; let the baby stand upright after feeding, and slightly raise the baby's head when the baby sleeps, so that the baby's head is higher than the belly; do not play with the baby vigorously after feeding; feed the baby before he is very hungry, and do not let him cry too much; if feeding with a bottle, make sure the milk hole is not too big or too small.

3. Taboo

If the mother is ill, it is not advisable to breastfeed, because force-feeding will produce some adverse consequences for some patients. If the mother has severe heart disease, heart failure, severe kidney disease, severe liver disease, mental illness, epilepsy, etc., it is not advisable, because breastfeeding will increase the burden on the mother and will undoubtedly cause the condition to worsen.

When mothers are using medicines that may harm their babies, they should feed their babies less or not feed them as much as possible. Hormone drugs, some antibiotics (such as tetracycline chloramphenicol, erythromycin, streptomycin, sulfonamides, etc.), lithium salts, aspirin, oxytocin, anti-epileptic drugs, anti-thyroid drugs, etc., all have certain effects on babies and should be avoided. If you have to take it, breastfeeding should be stopped.

Newborns are very tender, so mothers must know how to fully care for their babies. When breastfeeding, it will be very beneficial to pay more attention to these details.