How to use the breast pump

 How to use the breast pump 

Handwashing 

Washing your hands with soap and water is a modest and compelling approach to forestall illness. However, we sometimes forget this step in the wake of changing a baby's diapers and before handling nursing babies. 

It is essential to appropriately wash your hands before starting to use the breast pump and especially when handling the expressed milk. 

Cleaning and sterilizing the breast pump 

The breast pump is the ideal spot for microorganisms to develop. Not cleaning it appropriately is a risk for both mother and baby. 

What really guarantees the absence of microorganisms is sterilization. It is advisable to adhere to the maker's instructions yet when in doubt the recurrence of sterilization depends on: 

• If the baby is less than a quarter of a year old, untimely or sick, it must be sterilized every day. 

• If milk is expressed to store it for quite a while, it is advantageous to sterilize it often. 

• In babies more seasoned than a quarter of a year, the recurrence of sterilization might be less. 

Then again, it is significant that we don't keep the pieces of the sterilizer fitted until they are totally dry, to stay away from the development of new microscopic organisms and germs. 

And for what reason am I so overwhelming with cleanliness? All things considered, because of the infections. Microscopic organisms are found physiologically in breast milk. Staphylococci, streptococci, and lactic corrosive microorganisms are found in the typical microbiota. In ordinary conditions there is no issue, however in the event that the baby has decreased defenses or is untimely, or the mother has a break in the areola, extraordinary precautions must be taken because the bacterial focus increases in case of mastitis and infectious diseases such as bronchiolitis, the runs , influenza, and so on. Nothing ever happens until it happens ... 

Breast pump sterilization methods: 

• Traditional strategy: immerse and bubble utensils for 5 to 10 minutes. 

• Sterilizer (by steam activity). 

• Water disinfectant solutions: Milton technique or 1% hypochlorite. 

• Microwave sterilization. 

Each mother should choose the technique that best suits her needs and always adhere to the producer's instructions. 

Are used or second-hand pumps suggested? 

Our recommendation is always NO. (hands free breast pump)

As a preventive and sterile measure, it is considered that breast pumps are for personal use and are undependable for shared use. 

Some parts of the breast pump can't be cleaned or sterilized and there might be a risk of disease transmission. 

The air delivered by suction carries away the microorganisms that exist normally in breast milk and they colonize all surfaces of the breast pump, and from that point they go to the expressed milk. 

Breast pumps are a source of microscopic organisms gathering, so they should not be used to gather samples for culture in cases of mastitis and contagious infections, since they always give false results (false positives). Then again, cytomegalovirus (from the herpes family) is a virus of which the transporter might be unconscious of its disease. 

Cytomegalovirus is the most widely recognized virus transmitted to babies during pregnancy and can also be transmitted through breast milk. 

It is distinctive in the case of hospital-use breast pumps that are designed so that breast milk never comes into contact with the parts of the breast pump that are shared (bottles and tubes that snare to the pump engine). They also have an antibacterial layer channel and extremely strict maintenance to maintain a strategic distance from infections, similar to any hospital gadget. 

In the case of pumps for individual use, there are parts that can't be sterilized, and the safety for different mothers to use can't be ensured. The engine is associated with the cylinder where the milk is gathered, so it is also not useful to change the accessory pack. 

Extraction techniques 

The decision of the breast pump is as significant as the use we make of it, both in terms of assembly (always following the producer's instructions) and the strategy we use to perform the extractions. 

We always suggest the following steps for a right extraction: 

1. First a stimulation massage or spot a comfortable fabric on the breast for a couple of moments. 

2. Spot the channel on your chest and hold it with the palm of your hand. It is significant not to hold the pump by the container, yet by the pipe. 

3. You need to start the extraction by stimulating the progression of milk. How is it done? With fast and short extraction movements, until the first drops of milk begin to come out (around 2 minutes). On the off chance that you have an electric breast pump, this stimulation is finished by changing the pumping mode naturally. 

4. When the stimulation is finished, we begin with a slow and loosened up extraction, to obtain as much milk as possible. 

On the off chance that what we need is to increase milk production, it is advantageous to follow the following strategy at regular intervals: 

1. Stimulate one breast for 5 minutes (steps 3 and 4 above) and stop. Rehash with the other breast. 

2. Re-stimulate the first breast (steps 3 and 4 above) for 5 minutes and stop. Rehash with the other breast. 

In complete it is 20 minutes with the two breasts with a manual breast pump. With an electric one it very well may be decreased to 10 minutes (2.5 minutes per breast). 

After two hours we do the same process again. In this manner, the mammary glands will be stimulated to accomplish more plentiful extractions. 

In any case, always use the breast pump with alert, and stop on the off chance that we feel any kind of discomfort or pain.(wireless Breast Pump)