There may be some herbs that are purported to help grow breast tissue.
Goat's rue?
For your clients, I highly recommend continued early follow up. In my vast
experience, many mother's just don't recognize or respond to the signs of
not enough milk intake :
dark or scant urine - she thinks baby is at least peeing
skipping a day or days of stooling - she thinks baby is constipated and has
a tummy ache
lack of robust changes in the breast - she feels small changes or says "I
think my milk might be in"
jaundice - can be hard to recognize for the untrained observer
hunger - baby cries and sucks hands and passes gas but no stools - she
thinks he has a tummy ache and might even be giving a pacifier or gas drops
to soothe
Not to be a doomsayer but I've seen quite a lot of cases and so like to
follow babies until good milk production and wt gain is confirmed.
I can't understand why parents don't recognize the signs. I know I am the
one helping and teaching and with what we call Teach back and a very good
little book we give with charts on the pees/poos/signs they are doing well.
In the early postpartum period many mothers are a bit overwhelmed, very
tired, etc.
Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC
MISSISSIPPI USA
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