When to start building milk stash
How To Build Milk Stash | Increase Milk Production | Treat Clogged Ducts
so London is about one month old and I
have this - here this is this - I have
in the garage all in there and it's
organized by date each one has five
ounces of and then also have this - so
this is about two people so I know what
you guys are all wondering Jenny is that
necessary do you really need all that
breast milk yes yes I do
hi everyone welcome back to my channel
my name is Jenny I'm a third year family
medicine resident and a new mom of two
so in my last video you guys were asking
all about my pumps - and in the midst of
a breastfeeding week I thought this
would be the perfect video to film so
let's there's lots of talk about so
let's just jump into it so number one
thing that I want to talk about first
and foremost is building a milk stash so
all of you guys are asking me how I
built my milk stash London right now
it's only about one month old and I
already have a significant stash if you
guys have seen so what I used to build
up my milk stash are the Jaquez or the
Hakka doop I say the Duke because it's
not the same brand it's like bumble
something I don't know I'll link it in
the description box down below but the
reason why I bought it was because it's
half the price and it also comes with
like a little stopper and a little cap
and a little baggie for it what I do
with this is I nurse London on one side
and then I use the Hakka or the silicone
pump on the other side this is the most
passive way I found to collect the
breast
and it actually also has gentle suction
so along with catching little letdown it
also stimulates some of the breast milk
so what you do is I flip it like this
and you squeeze it out
creating a suction yes it's hard to do
oh my arm because I actually don't it's
not the right shape but basically you
put it on like this it creates a section
and then it stimulates the milk of
letdown and then you pull it off and
then you have extra milk I get anywhere
from 2 to 4 ounces each time London
nurses so yeah that is actually
exclusively how I've been building my
stash I found that this way has been so
much more of a stress reliever for me
just because I feel like it's such a
passive way of building my breast milk
with Wyatt I had to pump and I hate
pumping I feel like it took me away from
my newborn it was so isolating and build
so much anxiety because I felt like I
wasn't getting enough and so I felt like
this was such like when I found this I
was like oh you know so very happy about
this so the easiest way to remember
storage of breast milk and all that
stuff it's the rules of four just to
keep it simple for you can leave a
breast milk for four hours at room
temperature four days in the fridge and
four months in the freezer longer most
of the time in the freezer and I like
also the hakka because when I have extra
extra milk I just leave it out for for
an hour and if London is still hungry
then I let either
Stan or my mom or whoever else feed them
with the bottle and that allows them to
bond with London as well and gives me a
break
so I've been using the comb Otomo
bottles I've used this with Wyatt to you
and there has
no nipple confusion and so I just like
it gives me a break
gives other people time to bond with the
baby so the second thing I want to talk
about and I had a lot of questions on is
how to increase your milk supply and
this is all about supply and demand so
the more baby is at the breast then the
more you're getting nipple stimulation
and the more your emptying the more milk
you will produce be producing there has
been a Stanford video slash research
that shows the closer the more you hold
baby it encourages stimulation the
second thing that that video talks about
is adequately expressing and adequately
emptying your breasts and the way you do
that is one with an electric pump and
two with hand expression so what the
hakka you're actually stimulating the
breasts as well and so you're kind of
tricking your body to tell it that oh
you have you're feeding two babies and
that's why you continue to build milk
but if you want to stimulate even more
than that you can use an electric pump
or if you have to be away from baby and
pump then you can use an electric pump
and hand stimulate at the same time the
same Stanford video talks about how
women who use hand expression along with
electric pump have doubled their supply
even though they pump the same amount of
time so along with hand compression
there's lots of other things that can
help like massage this company la vie
actually sent this to me it's a little
massager it comes apart you can use both
ends of it and basically you I do this
when I'm super engorged
it feels really good it helps with
preventing the clogged ducts so I just
massage it out on each side usually it's
like right here that have like a little
knot that's like a clogged duct or a
milk duct so I just massage it out
another thing that has been really
helping with them
is this these things these are vibrating
warming massagers and these things are
freaking awesome because all you do is
turn on the little light its vibrates it
pulls it or it can just be heat and I go
in there and I just leave this in and it
helps with the letdown
and it's so convenient and so small so
thank you love you for setting me these
I absolutely love them I use them almost
on a regular basis I think they're also
giving away free silicone pumps right
now
with any purchase so I'll link them in
the description box down below I also
got these from one of my friends these
are like warming pads that you can put
in the microwave or you can also use it
as coolant paps these are made of cloth
and flax seeds and lavender and they
smell really good they're from little
buds and what I like about these are
that they're much bigger so they cover a
lot more of your breasts and it also
helps with letdown so if you're having
trouble with the pump I definitely would
recommend getting one of these and
putting them in you're putting it in
your nursing bra or one of those hand
free bras I use one of the hand free
ones so then I can massage at the same
time so definitely invest in one of
those some supplements that the
lactation consultant actually
recommended for me when I was having
trouble with my supply with Wyatt is one
fenugreek I would take these three times
a day the only thing about this is that
it makes your sweat smell like maple
syrup so if you don't mind that go ahead
and take these some people have said
that it also makes baby kind of gassy I
didn't notice that with Wyatt but that's
one of the concerns the second thing
that I use that I really love is called
maxi milk
I also took this in combination with the
fenugreek three times
day and I just mixed it in with some
water it's super super concentrated and
basically it's everything that you would
find in like the milk stimulation tees
and the cookies so instead of having to
buy all that everything is in this SF
super concentrated without the sugar and
then you can it's like eating a thousand
cookies or something like that and I
haven't found that this causes gas and
the baby either so I can't talk about
increasing your milk supply without
talking about clogged ducts it's very
very common in the first buy one to six
weeks postpartum and so I think it's
important to talk about because if you
don't treat these things and it can
ultimately lead to mastitis or even
worse abscess and sepsis so the rule of
thumb is continue emptying your breasts
continue breastfeeding and continue
pumping if you were doing that I think
it's really important to do at least one
to twice a day to fully empty your
breasts and how do you do that is the
same way as you increasing your milk
production
so basically hand massage make sure you
get those little knots out that you were
able to feel you can do that with your
hands or use that roller use the heating
packs I use this one because it's like
super easy and then I can press down
when it gets really bad I remember using
and first using an ice pack to decrease
the inflammation and then then going
back in with a heat pack to open it open
up all the ducts to help with drainage
so a medication that you can use that's
over the counter for clogged ducts
it's called lecithin it is also used for
lowering bad cholesterol increasing good
cholesterol it's found in natural foods
like leafy greens legumes organ meats
eggs things like that
but you need a higher concentration so
you can find it over the
you should take it multiple times a day
and over one to two weeks then you
should see resolution of those block
ducts so yeah that's all the information
I have for you guys today I know that's
a lot of information to take in if you
guys have any questions at all please
leave in them in the comment section
below and I'd love to answer them or
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