Instead, close your eyes and imagine you are a giant fountain in a town square with water shooting
out of your nipples into the air.
When your baby is latched on properly and breastfeeding, the motions of your baby's jaw, gums, and tongue help to pull the milk through the ducts and
out of your nipple into your baby's mouth.
Not exact matches
The
nipple flexes while the baby feeds, guiding the air
into the bottle as the milk flows
out instead
of letting it go
into the baby's stomach.
They extend their tongue
out to take the
nipple and some
of the surrounding areolae
into their mouth.
Oxytocin contracts the cells in the mammary glands to push milk
out of the
nipple and
into your baby's mouth.
I want to share my experience so other mothers who are worried because their
nipples, too, go
into their breasts rather than sticking
out of them, can be confident that this need not rule
out breastfeeding.
Not only was I engorged, with a cheap breast pump by my side that wouldn't get my milk
out good, my
nipples were starting to crack because I couldn't stuff enough
of my breast
into my baby's mouth in order for him latch on good.
Normally, when a baby latches on to their parent to breastfeed, they open their mouth wide, stick their tongue
out over their lower gum, and draw the
nipple back
into their mouth far enough so the
nipple is about at the junction
of the soft and hard palate.
There's no obvious way to lead
into this anecdote, so I'll just come
out with it: a nurse on one
of the postnatal wards in our local hospital told my wife that her (my wife's)
nipples might be «too flat» to breastfeed.
The strategically designed silicone
nipple is outfitted with special air vents that push air down
into the bottle, keeping this gas producing air
out of baby's sensitive tummy.
Just softly squeeze
out a few drops
of your breast milk, gently rub it
into the affected area
of your
nipple and leave to dry in the air.
To breastfeed, your baby needs to master the fine art
of taking your
nipple far back
into her mouth and then using her tongue to pump
out the milk (which can take a minute or so before it starts flowing).
A number
of things could have happened: You let air
into the system, either by pushing the piston
out too far or by un-doing the bleed
nipple.