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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.
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.
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.