Tips To Deal With An Overactive Milk Supply

Breast milk feeding is one of the best ways to ensure proper growth of your baby. Loaded with approximately 400 nutrients, as well as disease-fighting elements and hormones, breast milk is highly healthy and a complete food in-itself. Feeding your baby with your breast milk for up to six months is especially good as it helps improve the baby’s cognitive development, level of intelligent and smartness.

And, it’s just not your baby, even you are widely benefitted. Breast milk feeding helps mothers lose weight, lowers the risk of getting breast cancer, protects against ovarian cancer and even reduces the risk of developing type – 2 disease. That’s all well, but what to do when your body produces too much milk? Here, in this post, we detail some essential tips on how to deal with an overactive milk supply.

• Make sure that your baby is property latched to your breast. Most babies struggle latching to their mother’s breast in the initial days of birth. If he/she still faces trouble latching, it is best to consult a doctor. 
• Feed him/her whenever he/she is hungry. 
• Feed him/her whenever your breast feels full, even if that means that you have to wake the baby up from his/her sleep. It, apparently, is the only way to match the demand to supply of your breast milk.
• Before feeding, express the excess milk using a breast milk pump. This helps reduce the flow of the milk and allows the baby to latch properly. This way, you will be able to feed the baby in a proper manner. 
• Store the milk of one of your breasts and let the baby latch to the other. Doing this for some time can significantly help your body to regular the supply of milk. 
• If the initial letdown of milk is the main problem you are facing, after which things get back to normal, catch the first spray in a towel and then allow your baby latch to your breast.
• Splashing cold water on your breast is yet another way to slow down letdown. 

Even through oversupply of milk may seem to be troublesome, it’s your body’s way of indicating you that you are lactating properly. If you feel that you are producing more milk than usual, you can store it for times when you would not be around to breast milk feeding the baby.