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This is often the day reality hits home, tiredness strikes with a vengeance, your milk comes in and Baby wakes up and finds a voice. The ‘Third-day Blues’ is well known and will usually pass once you’ve had a good sleep, your hormones have stabilised and you have given vent to your emotions. If you had a good natural, active birth experience, you might feel physically well today. Your breasts will be tender but if you follow all the tips of the past days, they will not become engorged and excessively painful.

Tips to help with Baby

•Baby might splutter and choke as your milk comes in faster now. Simply let him come up for breath when necessary. Positing a bit of milk after a feed is quite normal and usually looks more than it is.

•Continue to feed as frequently as Baby needs today as this will help empty your breasts effectively. Do not time feeds or feed according to a schedule.

•If your breasts are too firm for Baby to suck from, warm them and express a little milk until the area around the nipples and areola is softer.

•You now need to wind Baby after a feed. Try one of these methods:

•Hold her over your shoulder and pat her back.

•Carry her in a baby sling after a feed.

•Hold her over your forearm facing forward with slight pressure on the tummy.

•Lay her over your lap with one leg raised so that her head is higher than her buttocks and pat her back.

•Sit her on your lap with her chin resting between your index finger and thumb and raising her left arm while pushing upwards on her back.

•If Baby has not broken wind within five to ten minutes, don’t bother to continue. Any burps later are not related to that feed.

Tips for Mom

•If you feel very emotional, take Rescue Emotion or the tissue salt Nat mur.

•If you had stitches they might be pulling tight. Exposing the area to the sun will dry, heal and soothe.

•Continue with Rescue Birth & Recovery and Arnica D6 tablets today too, but take three-hourly while awake.

•Unplug the phone today so that you can rest and Baby is not unsettled. Take it easy, you will soon be feeling better and coping well.

Engorgement:

•If your breasts are very hard and painful, cut a nipple-sized hole in the centre of two whole cabbage leaves, dip into boiling water for ten seconds, dry excess water and place over your breasts while still warm, to soothe and promote milk flow. Renew at the next and subsequent feeds.

•Warm cloths to your breasts, a shower or warm bath can also help.

•Do not restrict Baby’s sucking time so long as latching is correct, as your breasts need to be emptied. Engorgement will pass within two days.