Although painful,
full breasts mean that you are producing enough milk for your baby!
Not exact matches
Your
breasts should feel softer and less
full after your little one nurses, which
means she's drawing milk from your
breast.
Engorged
breasts means that they are very
full and almost hard to touch.
Guidelines suggest that a woman relying on LAM practice
full or nearly
full breastfeeding, which
means she is breastfeeding when the baby wants, both day and night, and other foods or liquids do not replace a feeding at the
breast and are given only in small amounts.
It usually takes around 6 weeks to regulate your supply and some woman may experience engorgement which
means the
breasts are too
full of milk or that you are producing more than baby is eating.
But if your baby's nursing sessions have shortened and your
breasts don't feel as
full as they once did, it doesn't necessarily
mean you aren't making enough milk.
FIL appears to slow milk production when the
breasts are
full because more milk
means higher FIL levels.
Naturally when I decided to
breast feed I got an onslaught of «nay - sayers» who were well
meaning when they told me «Don't beat yourself up when it doesn't work» I was sort of shocked that most of these mothers trying to live «healthy lifestyles» within their family, stocking their shopping carts
full of overpriced foods and eco-wise products would not be in support of trying to find a way to make
breast feeding work.
Thanks to the practice of hara hachi bu, which
means «eat until you are eight parts (or 80 per cent)
full», people in Japan are less likely to get
breast or colon cancer and consume an average of 840 fewer kilojoules per day than Westerners do.