Food and Water: Try and have food ready to eat in the fridge, you’ll be really hungry and tired and getting food fast is good. Always have water near you when you are nursing, nursing makes you very thirsty. Especially during the night don’t forget to drink plenty of water, if you don’t drink enough water you can get constipated. And trust me, really not fun after you push a baby out from down there!
Plugged duct: This sucked. Your boob gets all hard and it hurts so bad. Try to avoid them by not wearing binding stuff around your breasts. Also feel your breasts after or during feeding and see if there are any hard lumps, if there is try to massage it while feeding. Always massage in a circular motion. Also, if you suspect you have a clog; 1. Soak in a warm tub or just soak your boob in a bowl of warm water, or use a moist heating pad. 2. Get plenty of rest and do the massage thing. 3. Try to feed a lot on the clogged breast and get the baby’s lower jaw where the clog is. 4. Try to “empty†the breast at every feeding. 5. Try putting a cabbage leaf on the clogged area under your bra and just let it wilt there a few hours. I don’t know why but it helps. Don’t use the cabbage leaves too long, they are also used to decrease milk supply
Posture and comfort: Use a footstool and a pillow behind your back so you don’t strain your muscles when you are sitting up. Put a pillow behind your back when you are lying down, and a pillow between your knees too.Fold a baby blanket and lay it across the area between your body and the boppy pillow so the baby doesn’t fall in. once the baby gets bigger you don’t need to do this but in the beginning it helps.Don’t feel silly if you have to set up a whole special place to breastfeed at first. I had a “throne†set up on the couch with pillows every where, the boppy, a footstool… breastfeeding is challenging in the begining, it was for me (still is) and anything you have to do to get it to work is OK.
Alignment: Make sure the baby is aligned right. The ear, shoulder and hip should all be in a row. Both your and the baby’s tummy should be touching. When lying on your side, you don’t want the baby on his back with his head turned toward you; line him up on his side also. This helps the latch and the suck. I had it all wrong in the beginning, getting the alignment right really helped.
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