It is a fairly common problem: the mother tries to express breast milk with a breast pump after breastfeeding her baby to increase her production, but seeing that the bottle does not fill or does it very slowly, it becomes frustrated.
One becomes so desperate that it seems even that stress seems to block even the outflow of milk.
This situation is so normal that the simple trick to stop looking, shared on your Facebook account by the lactation consultant in Zurich, Johanna Sargeant, has gone viral: Wrapping the breast pump bottle with a baby sock can triple the production of breast milk.
In Babies and more How to extract and preserve breast milkThe Certified Breastfeeding Consultant (IBCLC, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) explains how the idea came up and why:
"When they told me to take out milk after breastfeeding to increase breast milk production, I sat and watched. I grabbed the pump for twenty minutes after feeding my baby to my chest, and I was increasingly demoralized by the lack of milk in that bottle. I realized that, for my own mental health, I had to stop looking! "
But as he admits in his post, it is easier said than done and he thought of some way to avoid becoming obsessed. "So I placed a baby sock."
The breastfeeding expert adds that she now advises moms to put a sock around the bottle while using the breast pump, so they forget what they are taking out and ensures they are having "incredible results". Explain what "Some women are often getting 2-3 times more milk, not thinking about how much they are pumping."
In fact, it's been only a week since he published the trick on social media, and has already been shared no less than 8,680 times. Without a doubt, this little help seems to work.
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