Extraction Workshop
Discover our extraction workshop, designed for working mothers looking to maintain successful breastfeeding when returning to the workplace. Through in-depth sessions, we explore everything from breast pump selection to optimal methods for storing and administering breast milk. We cover advanced techniques to prevent bottle confusion and offer strategies to maintain milk production. Additionally, we address the emotional challenges associated with returning to work, providing comprehensive support to promote baby's health and development.
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0:28
0. Intro
This introductory chapter celebrates your commitment to breastfeeding and prepares you for your return to work. Discover essential techniques and receive tips to maintain your milk supply, ensuring your baby continues to benefit from your nutrition during this crucial transition.
1:18
1. Return to work, emotional aspects
This chapter addresses the mixed emotions mothers face when returning to work and how to manage them by creating a milk bank. We offer strategies for managing anxiety and guilt, ensuring that your baby continues to benefit from breastfeeding while you advance professionally.
9:14
2. Types of breast pumps
We explore breast pumps for working mothers: manual, electric, and wireless, highlighting how to maximize efficiency and minimize discomfort. We include techniques for fitting the funnel size and hygiene tips for safe and effective extraction, facilitating the continuation of breastfeeding.
7:34
3. Storage and Preservation
Explore techniques for safely extracting and storing breast milk. You will learn how to handle expressed milk, how to refrigerate or freeze it correctly, and tips for maintaining quality during transport and storage, ensuring its optimal preservation.
0:44
4. When to Start the Milk Bank?
Discover the optimal time to start storing breast milk, with recommendations to make the most of the first postpartum month to understand and connect with your baby before beginning the milk bank.
0:49
5. How to Maintain Milk Production?
Practical tips for managing and maintaining your milk production as you return to work, focusing on the importance of pumping during breaks and breastfeeding on demand during nights and days off to ensure adequate prolactin levels and milk supply.
0:30
6. Are there any foods that increase breast milk production?
Explore the relationship between diet and breast milk production, discovering foods or products that could affect your breast milk production.
4:28
7. How to Bottle Feed to Minimize the Risk of Nipple Confusion?
Learn the proper techniques for warming and administering preserved breast milk, ensuring its nutritional quality is maintained. Discover how to adjust the ideal amount and temperature for bottle feeding your baby, respecting your pediatrician's advice and adapting to your child's specific needs.
3:11
8. How to Bottle Feed? The Kassing Method
Learn the Kassing method for bottle feeding, a technique that prevents nipple confusion between bottle and breast. This approach involves positioning the bottle horizontally, allowing the baby to actively draw the milk, replicating breastfeeding.
1:13
9. What If I Can't Continue Breastfeeding?
Discover the importance of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and its continuation until the second year. Learn to manage the challenges and how support policies can facilitate this process while you work, promoting optimal development and health for your baby.