Breastfeeding baby breastfeeding baby and work

You return to work and still want to continue to breastfeed baby? With a little planning, you can. Here's how.

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Baby swears by breast milk. Then there is 2 solutions:

- Your workplace is close to the place of custody of the baby and you can be absent two times 30 minutes to breastfeed baby (at noon and 16h);
- Your workplace is far away from the custody of the baby and you must take your milk. The caregiver will give your baby milk bottle.

If you pull your milk,breastfeeding is a bit more complicated. Because usually it is not enough to express her milk in the evening to maintain lactation. To maintain milk production, it should stimulate! If you want to continue to breastfeed baby in full, so you need to get your milk in your workplace.

Once fired, the milk must be kept cool (4 ° C) in a bottle or a clean container.
So remember to bring a small cooler in your workplace.

NB : The Labour Code permits women to breastfeed an hour a day until the first anniversary of your child. Caution, however, that time is unpaid. In addition, you should be able to breastfeed or pump your milk in hygienic conditions, away from view.

If you pull your milk, you can take more weekend and freeze it as well. A good solution for feeding your baby during the week when you are away or have not had time to express your milk.

Mixed feeding mode

Baby drinks alternately bottles of artificial milk (lunch and snack for example) and feedings (morning and evening).

You need to get used to baby formula milk and teats. The ideal is to start only 2-4 days before resuming work. In women who have a lot of milk, however, begin partial withdrawal several days before resuming work, on pain of pain or infections related to congestion. 

Attention, some women stop time to breastfeed her baby at the breast causes the milk supply to dry up quickly.

How to get his milk?

You need a hardware nursing specific. The manual breast pump is what is most convenient to your workplace. To do this, start by washing your hands and then make yourself comfortable.Take milk about 10 minutes on each breast. You must then transfer the milk into a clean container that you put in the refrigerator (or in a cooler at 4 ° C).

At home, you can freeze your milk in freezer bags special breastfeeding.
The milk will keep in refrigerator 48 hours and 4 months in the freezer.