Store mother’s milk

Mother’s milk

Mother’s milk is the staple food that children rely on from the moment they are born. It represents an integrated diet that enriches them from other foods that they can not eat because of their young age. God has placed this food in the mother’s breast because it has great benefits for the child. Some children do not rely on it as a staple food, as they are very weak, so the mother uses artificial milk to grow healthy and healthy.

Most of the children depend on it as a primary food. This makes the mother feel a problem when she leaves the house, especially when it takes a long time. She is puzzled about how to provide the baby with milk at the time of her absence. This article on how to store breast milk, in addition to how to pump breast milk.

How to store mother’s milk

Method 1

Place the milk in a bottle, close it tightly, then store it in a cold area between 15.5 ° C and 29 ° C. Storage should be three to four hours. The rest of the stored milk should be discarded after breast feeding.

Method 2

Put the milk in a glass container, then place it in a box dedicated to ice, with the milk bottle attached to the pieces of ice, and then keep the box in a cool place at 15 ° C for 24 hours, and avoid opening the box unless necessary.

Method 3

Put the milk in a bottle, then keep it in the back of the refrigerator at a temperature of up to 3.8 ° C or less, and have storage for 72 hours.

Method 4

Put the milk in a glass container, and store it in the back of the freezer at a temperature of 17 ° C or less, and continue to store for six months to 12 months.

How to pump breast milk

• Wash our hands well before breast milk is pumped or when milk is processed after the injection.
• We try to sit in a comfortable position.
• Inducing breast milk by hand, by gently massaging the breast or watching images and videos of the baby or the baby’s tiviker, this can greatly stimulate the flow of milk.
• When the milk starts to flow, start using the pump.
• Put the pump clamp directly above the nipple, and hold it gently and firmly, to ensure tight adhesion of the breast.
• Keep the nipple clamped throughout the milk pumping process.
• Continue pumping until the pumping and flow of milk slows down, then continue to perish for another minute, then move to the second breast.
• When the breast milk slows down in the other breast we go back to the first breast, then we end the pumping and the flow of the second breast when the flow slows down the second time.

Note: If we pump the milk from both breasts simultaneously, we have to stop the pump for half a minute when the milk pump is slowed down, then turn it on again, and continue pumping until the flow slows down again.