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Sometimes words are not enough. These short videos offer practical support with breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and guidance on understanding your baby
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Breast fullness, also known as engorgement, may occur when your milk “comes in”, usually 2–4 days after birth. Here you can find advice on how to reduce breast engorgement and ease any associated discomfort.
See how you can move the breast to help relieve engorgement and pain. This is also called “breast gymnastics” and is a gentle and easy method.
Cold compresses applied to the breast can help relieve engorgement and pain associated with mastitis. See how to do this in this video.
Your nipple may become flattened if your breast is very full or engorged. In this case, using reverse pressure softening (RPS), gently applying pressure around the base of the nipple, and stimulating the breast by hand before feeding can help the nipple protrude. Watch the video to see how to do this.
If you have breast engorgement and pain, gentle breast massage can help to relieve discomfort. In this video, you can see how to do it.
In this video, you can see how to express milk by hand after birth and how to store the milk.
Applying warmth and gently massaging the breast before putting your baby to the breast or before expressing milk can help stimulate the let-down reflex. This can also relieve breast fullness and make breastfeeding more comfortable.