Breastfeeding Rules

Hi! Some people think that breastfeeding is just plain breastfeeding.  I will bluntly say it's not.  Breastfeeding is not a joke.  It is passion, a mother's desire.  It a big decision that a mother has to make before bearing a child.  It has it's own rules.  Some may think these rules are old fashioned, maybe they are but they are effective.
Here are the rules:
1.  Believe in what old people says, it matters.  They know better because they've been through it.  There was no formula milk in the past.

2.  Drink lots of liquids.  No cold drinks please.  Hot water, hot soup, name it. It stimulates milk production. Believe in the power of "malunggay" or ben oil tree.
3.  Allow the child to feed anytime he/she wants.  More will be produced if you do so, because it is  replenished.
4.  Bath with hot (bearable) water.
5.  Always wash your nipples before feeding, or wipe it with hot well towel.
6.  No eating of sour fruits like mangoes and guavas.  It will lessen your milk, take it from me, I experienced it.  It causes mastitis too.
7. A back massage helps in the production of milk.
8.  A mother should be proud that she breast feeds her baby.  It has its own benefits and advantages (more on that in my next posts).
Complaining is not the solution to successful breastfeeding.  It is sacrifice.  You may have sore nipples, wounded nipples, painful breasts and others.  But these are only a few compared to the future benefits the  mother and the child gets after.
I'll give one example.  I believe in this one.  The child is more intelligent if he/she was breastfed.  My kids are.
Have a good life.