Are you one of the expectant mums who are looking for breastfeeding tips that really work?
Not just some advertisements that only aim to sell you their products, but real-life experiences from mothers who have breastfed their babies?
If so, you are in the right spot.
We have four successful working mothers from different fields today to share their applicable breastfeeding tips with all new and expectant mothers.
What they hope to see is that they could empower more mothers (even you’re a working mother) to attempt and continue breastfeeding the babies.
So, read on and find out more about how they overcome the challenges that they have faced during breastfeeding.
You might even find yourself relating to their breastfeeding stories!
4 Approved Breastfeeding Tips for New Mothers
Tip #1 by Dr Yasmin: Get Yourself Some Support
Working as an OB-GYN in Hospital Sungai Buloh, Dr. Yasmin stated the importance of support to ease the journey of breastfeeding.
You need a good support around you.
As mentioned above, she further elaborated her stance on finding lactation counsellors around your area to get their professional help in breastfeeding.
Along with the proliferation of social media, she also suggested getting additional support from Facebook groups.
In Facebook groups where mothers from all over Malaysia or even worldwide are gathered to share their issues, new mothers can easily reach out for help if they face any challenges in breastfeeding.
Simply voice out your doubts in the groups and you will be surprised and touched by how many mothers would share with you their breastfeeding tips in an instant.
You will get to know too how your breast milk can help your children not only when they were babies, but until they are infants or young children.
Tip #2 by Carmen Yong: Have Sufficient Rest
As the founder of Sugirl Dessert, Carmen Yong equally needs to juggle between her career and family.
However, she emphasised the significance of getting yourself enough rest to work your way through breastfeeding.
While some new mothers rely a lot on lactation cookies to increase their milk supply, she confessed that it didn’t help her in her breastfeeding.
On top of this, she didn’t really rely on many products to produce more breast milk. Instead, what she needs is to make sure that she gets sufficient rest every day.
Personally, I need to have sufficient rest. That’s all.
Besides having sufficient rest, you will be able to persist too if you are certain with why you wish to breastfeed your baby.
Tip #3 by Fiqa: Get Yourself A Lacti-Cup
Did you ever find yourself in messy situations while you’re breastfeeding?
For example, while latching your baby on one side of your breast, you realised that another breast leaks out milk droplets.
Worry not, Fiqa equally faced a similar situation and she had solved with a very simple tool.
Dear new mothers, just get yourself a lacti-cup.
If you wonder what is a lacti-cup, it is a soft and flexible silicone that can comfortably mould to your breast. Instead of wasting your milk on your nursing pad, it can help to collect all the breastmilk leaks.
As Fiqa recalled, she stated that the lacti-cup was not available in the market when she had her first child in 2016.
However, when she discovered this product while breastfeeding her second child, she felt the differences.
She mentioned that breastfeeding became a lot easier for her with the lacti-cup.
Once she’s done with latching, the cup was almost full with the breast milk.
Here is how Fiqa finds the lacti-cup in short,
Even though it’s so simple that it’s just a silicone, it helps. I find that [lacti cup] as the best thing for breastfeeding.
Tip #4 by Siew Pei: Be Certain About Breastfeeding
As a lactation counsellor, Siew Pei was once very ambitious and determined to breastfeed her baby until he/she was one to two years old.
With that, she encouraged all new mothers to continue breastfeeding despite facing any obstacles and challenges.
Just keep yourself up with a strong spirit and tell yourself this mantra,
You can do it, if you want to do it.
You can equally learn about the hard and easy parts of breastfeeding from these four successful working mothers.
Additional Breastfeeding Tips and Advice From The Mothers
In the journey of breastfeeding, Carmen wished to alleviate the burden of every breastfeeding mother. She talked about not giving ourselves too much pressure. Just do our best.
No matter what, you’re still a good mother to your own kid.
On the other hand, Siew Pei truly understands the hurdle of breastfeeding especially for working mums.
Like herself, she knew the journey was not easy but she persisted. She stated that we as mums, it’s truly our blessing to have a cute little baby.
Let’s continue to give our baby the best milk, which is the ‘breast milk’.
Help Yourself Out With These Breastfeeding Tips
Breastfeeding is not easy for these working mothers. Still, they decided to look for alternatives and support, both physically and mentally, so that they could continue breastfeeding their babies.
Thus, if they can breastfeed their babies, you can do it too!
Simply have more faith in yourselves and apply these simple yet effective tips during the process of breastfeeding.
You will know that it is certainly worth your effort when you notice your baby is putting on weight and getting healthier because of your breast milk.
In accordance with the World Breastfeeding Month, we wish to shout out to all breastfeeding mothers for your determination and great sacrifice.
Thank you for not giving up and let’s inspire more mothers to follow our footsteps in breastfeeding!
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