Should I throw away the excess breast milk?
Disposal of excess breast milk:
1. It can be used to make soap and wash hands. This method is strange to many friends. However, soap made from breast milk can make your family's skin healthy, white and tender.
2. Skin care is something that every mother attaches great importance to. Mothers usually apply facial masks to achieve a hydrating effect. Excess breast milk can be used to make facial masks.
3. If the baby is injured, you can apply some milk on the wound, so that it can heal easily.
4. It can be used with complementary food. Generally speaking, complementary food is not easily accepted by the baby at the beginning. Add some milk to the complementary food, which will make it easier for the baby to accept it.
5. Some babies’ skin is not very good and they are prone to eczema. In response to this phenomenon, parents can apply some breast milk to the baby, which will help relieve the baby’s eczema.
What are the foods that promote lactation? Here are some examples:
Peanuts: Peanuts can be used for spleen deficiency, regurgitation, edema, leucorrhea in women, anemia and various types of hemorrhage, as well as dry cough and long-lasting cough. , postpartum lactation and other diseases.
Luffa: Luffa is a kind of Chinese medicinal material. It is sweet in taste and cold in nature. If there is inflammation of the breast, lumps during milking, or poor milk secretion, Chinese medicine will recommend putting loofah on the Stewing in broth can regulate breast qi and blood, promote lactation, appetize and reduce phlegm.
Tofu: Tofu is good for qi and neutralization, promotes body fluids and moisturizes dryness, clears away heat and detoxifies. It is also a lactation food. Boil tofu, brown sugar, and rice wine in water to produce milk.
Soup: It is said that sufficient soup is good for breastfeeding. You can choose different lactation soups according to the mother's taste, such as peanut stewed pig's feet, crucian carp soup, yam stewed hen soup, clear stewed black chicken soup, fermented egg drop soup, etc. But mothers should be careful not to drink malted milk and other malt-containing drinks, as this will cause lactation.