Breastfeeding Awareness Week: Multi-Mam’s Top Tips
Breastfeeding Awareness Week: Multi-Mam’s Top Tips for Supporting Your Body and Enjoying Your Breastfeeding Experience
The benefits of breastfeeding are extoled openly but the practice itself can be incredibly tough on a mother’s body, Pain and discomfort can take away from precious moments with your new born or cut short the breastfeeding journey entirely. With their bioactive gel which stimulates the nipples natural immune system, Award winning Multi-Mam® Compresses provide immediate, direct treatment for sore cracked nipples, promotes healing and proactively prevents further damage to the nipple area.
COVID 19 has seen breastfeeding support groups nationwide suspended until further notice, leaving some new mums unsupported as they navigate the process. From their experience with lactation consultants, midwifes and thousands of women, Multi-Mam® have pulled together their top tips and advice for a more enjoyable and prolonged breastfeeding experience:
- Get Comfortable – Spend some time cuddling with baby before feeding, this will help you find a comfortable position, relax and level their head so that baby can attach to the entire areola and not just the nipple. Milk is expressed by baby suckling on the areola, when suckling on the nipple alone it presses against the roof of baby’s mouth, this is what can cause pain and discomfort to mum, so a deep latch is important.
- Establish a Feeding Area – Once you settle down to feed baby it can be hard to do anything else so make sure you are prepared. Gather together a collection of breastfeeding essentials so that you can always access the key things you’ll need during a feeding session such as a power bank for your phone, healthy snacks, water bottle, multi-mam compresses, tissues, burp cloth and most importantly the remote control.
- Protect and Prepare – Continuing to breastfeed once you have started is essential to prevent mastitis and blocked ducts, especially during the period of engorgement following birth. Multi-Mam® Compresses are great when used proactively, applied to the breast before feeding they provide a protective layer between the nipple and baby, maintain the fluid balance of the skin and most importantly allow Mum to enjoy feeding pain free. The bio-active gel is natural, safe and harmless for baby so does not need to be cleaned off before feeding.
- Prevent Infection – Changing of brassieres daily and applying Multi-Mam® Compresses after each feed is vital in the prevention of infection on the skins surface. If pain does not subside after 72 hours it is your GP as it may instead be an infection that requires antibiotics.
- Manage Bumps in the Road – Breastfeeding is rough on skin and no matter how prepared Mum is, it can take a toll. Having strategies to move past these is essential for Baby but also Mum’s wellbeing. The most common complications experienced are dried, cracked and irritated nipples , will be painful for a few days but this can be helped by experimenting with feeding positions (attachment is 360 degrees so plenty of options to get inventive!), feeding on the side experiencing the most pain first and the use of compresses to alleviate friction.
- Try not to Worry too Much – Many Mums will agree, this is the hardest tip to put in to practice! The emphasis put on the importance of breast feeding for Baby’s development, can sometimes come at a cost to mothers. Tender easily cracked and bleeding nipples are normal, struggling to get baby to attach properly is experienced by so many mums, Try to go easy on yourself where possible (you are doing fantastic we promise) and find products such as Multi-Mam® Compresses to care for your body and make the experience as beneficial to YOU as it is for your little one.
Multi-Mam Compresses are available at Pharmacies Nationwide with a RRP of €14.70
Breast Feeding Awareness week runs October 1st – 7th 2020.
Award Winning, Multi-Mam® Compresses provide direct relief for breastfeeding discomforts such as sore or cracked nipples, infections and sensitivity. The compresses are impregnated with a bio-active gel containing the natural 2QR-complex (Polysaccharides derived from the leaves of the Aloe plant). This gel neutralises harmful micro-organisms naturally thereby supporting the natural healing process and reducing the chance of infection.
The gel is nontoxic and no preservatives have been added therefore it’s not necessary to remove the gel prior to breastfeeding. Multi-Mam® Compresses are the number one recommendation by midwives and lactation consultants.
- Intensive nipple treatment for breastfeeding mothers
- Provides direct, immediate relief for sore, cracked nipples
- Protects against infection (mastitis)
- 100% natural, safe and harmless when swallowed
Directions: Compresses can be used as often as desired. Apply at least twice a day. Place the compress with the impregnated side on the sore nipple. Leave the compress as long as desired but at least 10 minutes, preferably 30 minutes and maximum 1 hour. Nipple does not need to be cleaned prior to feeding, the gel is natural and harmless if swallowed by babies.
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