Many moms experience overactive letdown or oversupply of their milk when breastfeeding. It helps to know what this fast letdown is like and some ways you can manage when it seems like your baby is drowning in all the breast milk. That’s what today’s video is about.. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:. KellyMom https://kellymom.com/bf/got-milk/supply-worries/fast-letdown/. Breastfeeding Overview https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/nursing-basics#1. More on overactive letdown from my earlier video: https://youtu.be/rNGxfCevTkM. CONNECT WITH US ON FACEBOOK for daily content about family. https://www.facebook.com/thektfiles/. CONTACT US VIA EMAIL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaHl_HGMfJr6kPu2LTRBkA/about (click “view email address”). ABOUT MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKTFiles. Our videos are all about family, life and love. Join me each week for a new video about mommyhood, babies, children, family, relationships and more! When you subscribe, YouTube will notify you each time we publish a new video.. SUBSCRIBE TO THE KT FILES YOUTUBE CHANNEL. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaHl_HGMfJr6kPu2LTRBkA?sub_confirmation=1
In this video, learn how to slow down an overactive letdown while breastfeeding. For more information, blog posts, and podcast episodes, check out our website: http://www.sdbfc.com.. http://sdbfc.com/blog/2012/2/6/foremilk-vs-hindmilk-the-unnecessary-controversy.html. http://www.newmommymedia.com/episode/oversupply-and-overactive-letdown/
You mentioned that you have a very forceful let-down, and it causes your baby to cough and sputter, and it can also be frustrating for babies. And the number 1 cause with forceful let-down is over-supply. So there’s a couple of things that you can do. You can work on regulating your milk supply, and you can also get your baby more used to it. It’s actually very normal for babies between birth to 3 months of age to struggle a little bit with let-downs, because they’re small and they’re trying to keep up with the fast pace. And then around 3 months or so, a mother’s milk supply naturally evens out. And so it’s a combination of issues, but this can be a normal problem.. One of the things that you can try is putting your baby in an up-hill nursing position, and this will help them to keep up with it a little bit better. If you think about yourself too, when you’re lying down and swallowing, it’s much harder than when you’re sitting up and swallowing. So you can hold your baby in the football hold, or in the cross-cradle position where their head is slightly elevated, you can also do it in a side-lying position, and all of these things will give your baby the up-hill advantage and may help them stay on top of forceful let-downs.. Another issue commonly associated with forceful let-down is gas, because baby’s swallow a lot of air trying to stay on top of the flow. So burp your baby well in between each side and after the feeding to make sure that you get this gas out. Now this next suggestion sounds a little counterintuitive, but it can be helpful. If you try nursing your baby more frequently throughout the day, it reduces the amount of milk available to your baby. And so it can slow the flow and make it more manageable for your baby during breastfeeding. When let-downs occur, you can also take the baby off the breast if it’s really forceful, and just let it drip into a cloth, and then latch your baby back on when it has slowed down a little bit.. The last suggestion is pumping a little bit of milk off before you latch your baby on. But this can stimulate milk production further, and that may add to the problem, so this should be your last resort. But the idea is if you get to the point where it’s a forceful let-down, let it happen and then latch your baby on, that can help them manage the flow of breastfeeding from that point on during the feeding. If you have any other concerns or questions about your baby, call your pediatrician. And if you have more questions for me in the future, feel free to ask them on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/IntermountainMoms, and recommend us to your friends and family too.
About This Video: Have you heard about the Let Down Reflex? In this video I explain what the let down reflex is and how the let down reflex happens.. Let Down Reflex is another cool, magical and weird thing our bodies do to help our little ones get all the grub they need from our boobs! The let down reflex gets triggered after your baby has been suckling on your nipple for a while. Prolactin and Oxytocin are the 2 hormones responsible for making the let down happen. Prolactin makes your milk glands snatch all the raw materials it needs for the milk from your blood and oxytocin makes your milk ducts contract, leading your milk to eject or “let down”. In fact, the let down reflex is also known as the milk ejection reflex. If you ever had one of your breasts exposed while breastfeeding you have likely seen it happen, and if you watch closely, you can actually see your nipple harden during the letdown reflex. A lot of women describe the let down reflex as a “pins and needles” or tingling sensation. That’s really never how it felt for me… well I guess maybe tingling. Some of signs and symptoms of the let down reflex include: -tingling sensation. -milk coming out of the opposite breast. -baby sucking rhythmically. -thirst. To stop the milk from coming out of the opposite breast during a let down just gently push on your nipple with the heel of your hand.. I hope you found this helpful!:). References: http://www.lalecheleague.org/nb/nbmarapr05p44.html. http://www.babies.sutterhealth.org/breastfeeding/bf_production.html. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/milk+ejection+reflex
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When a baby begins to feed at the breast, the feeling of her baby suckling sends messages to the mother’s brain that makes milk come down. Even the sound of a baby crying can produce milk.. The 100% Breastfed campaign aims to help new mothers and their families understand the benefits of breastfeeding (regardless of their income and social standing), and to create a supportive community that destigmatises the age-old practice of breastfeeding.. The 100% Breastfed campaign videos were created by Digital Medic South Africa, an initiative of the Stanford Centre for Health Education and the Stanford School of Medicine.. Visit www.100percentbreastfed.co.za for details on the campaign.
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The breastfeeding let-down reflex, also called the milk-ejection reflex (MER), is an automatic natural reaction that happens in your body as your baby breastfeeds. When your child latches onto your breast and begins to suck, it sends a message to your brain to release the hormones prolactin and oxytocin. The let-down reflex (milk ejection reflex)By sucking at the breast, your baby triggers tiny nerves in the nipple.These nerves cause hormones to be released into your bloodstream.One of these hormones (prolactin) acts on the milk-making tissues.The other hormone (oxytocin) causes the breast to push out or ‘let down’ the milk.The let-down reflex makes the milk in your breasts available to your baby.Cells. What is let down reflex? When you are breastfeeding, your body is producing and storing milk in your breast tissues, ready to feed your baby. When there is breast milk let down, the milk basically travels from the tissues to your nipples before it gets to the baby’s mouth (or a pump if you are pumping).
How fast or how slow the milk flows depends on the let down reflex, making it a vital factor in the. Let down reflex is felt as a tingling sensation when your baby has been sucking at a breast for about 2 minutes. Letdowns generally occur more than once during a breastfeeding session, but most women feel the initial let down. Some women also experience a letdown when they think about their baby or. A milk let down reflex is a natural function, but sometimes it can cause a few breastfeeding problems when the flow of milk becomes too forceful or too slow.
What you need to remember, is that before 6 weeks postpartum, your body is getting accustomed to the needs of your baby and things should start improving; then your baby should also begin to drink more aggressively, which. Think of the letdown reflex as an intricate dance in which you and your baby are partners. Your body responds to input from your baby when they begin to. When a baby starts to suckle, a reflex involving nerves and hormones (a neurohormonal reflex) releases milk from the breast.
This reflex is known as the milk ejection reflex (MER) and is commonly called the “let-down”. If milk is released very forcefully it is sometimes called a fast let-down or an overactive let-down. The let-down reflex, however, can make breastfeeding easier for both you and your baby. “Let-down” is the release of milk from the breast. It’s a normal reflex that occurs when nerves in your.
The let-down reflex, or the milk ejection reflex, is essentially the release of the stored milk in your breasts. In between feedings, your body acts like a factory and continues to manufacture milk and build a supply of milk in your breasts. Not only will your baby receive a good flow of milk as your milk lets down but this reflex will be squeezing the higher fat milk that adheres to the sides of the alveoli down to your baby too.
This higher fat milk is often called ‘hind milk,’ while the first milk your baby drinks is referred to as foremilk.
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After several weeks, it becomes a barely noticeable sensation.The let-down reflex can be inhibited by stress and anxiety; therefore, it is important that you feel good about breast-feeding your baby for your experience to be successful and satisfying.
Once your let-down reflex is consistent (usually by two weeks after delivery), you may feel a pins-and-needles, or tingling, sensation in your breasts when you nurse or pump.
As many successful breastfeeding women know all too well, the reflex can be operantly conditioned; the smell, sight, and sound can unexpectantly elicit the let-down reflex.
After breastfeeding has been fully established in the first few weeks, lactating women may begin to feel the strong tingling sensation in the breasts caused by oxytocin release, signaling the let-down reflex.
The let—down reflex is stimulated by a neurogenic reflex, with oxytocin released from the pituitary gland in response to suckling, forcing milk out of the alveoli in the breasts.
The let-down reflex can also be stimulated by the sight of an infant or the sound of an infant’s cry, and inhibited by maternal pain or stress, or low milk supply.
This process, often called the let-down reflex, may be accompanied by a tingling sensation in the breast that lets the mother know the infant is receiving milk.
from Discovering Nutrition by Paul M. Insel, R. Elaine Turner, Don Ross Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2006
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*Lactiferous sinus I encourage you to read into it more if you are interested
Ramsay, D. T., Kent, J. C., Hartmann, R. A. and Hartmann, P. E. (2005), Anatomy of the lactating human breast redefined with ultrasound imaging. Journal of Anatomy, 206: 525–534. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00417.x
this was very helpful thank you for the tips my son Eli is a month old and im trying to establish a good milk supply plus i want to start storing milk so this video really helped
This is interesting thank you. I heard in some instances whereas a mother is not able to breast feed for whatever reasons then goats milk is closest to human milk for babies.
HAHA!! Yeah, it can be super embarrassing have a milk stained shirt, but let’s be honest… That’s just beginning of the many embarrassing moments your kids will put you through. I’ll get my revenge in teenage hood FOR SURE!!!
When it happens to my baby boy I place the one letting down over a baby bottle so it won’t go to waste! Some times it can be a hole ounce or two saved by doing it this way!
*Lactiferous sinus
I encourage you to read into it more if you are interested
Ramsay, D. T., Kent, J. C., Hartmann, R. A. and Hartmann, P. E. (2005), Anatomy of the lactating human breast redefined with ultrasound imaging. Journal of Anatomy, 206: 525–534. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00417.x
this was very helpful thank you for the tips my son Eli is a month old and im trying to establish a good milk supply plus i want to start storing milk so this video really helped
This is interesting thank you. I heard in some instances whereas a mother is not able to breast feed for whatever reasons then goats milk is closest to human milk for babies.
HAHA!! Yeah, it can be super embarrassing have a milk stained shirt, but let’s be honest… That’s just beginning of the many embarrassing moments your kids will put you through. I’ll get my revenge in teenage hood FOR SURE!!!
When it happens to my baby boy I place the one letting down over a baby bottle so it won’t go to waste! Some times it can be a hole ounce or two saved by doing it this way!