Mastitis is the worst fear of every breastfeeding mother.
Most breastfeeding mothers suffer from mastitis because they have too much milk and cannot discharge it in time.
Once you get mastitis, your breasts will hurt so much that you can't even touch them.
Wang Youyou didn't want to get involved, but then she heard a nurse say, "The doctor said you have to endure the pain. Either ask the baby's father to help suck it out, or squeeze it out yourself."
The woman's crying was so miserable.
Seeing that Wang Youyou seemed very concerned about this matter, Lu Jinfeng asked, "Sister, do you want to go and see what's going on?"
In fact, she was also a little curious.
"Yeah." Wang Youyou hummed and walked to the door of the clinic to take a look.
I saw a woman in labor, dressed warmly and wearing a hat, sitting on a chair and crying, with no one caring about her.
Her family members were communicating with the doctor, looking disgusted.
Judging from the way the mother and her family are dressed, they seem to be quite rich. Why don’t they hire a lactation consultant?
Lactation consultant?
That’s right! In those days, there was no such thing as a lactation consultant.
Thinking of this, Wang Youyou said to Lu Jinfeng, "Jinfeng, go back and help me look after the stall first. I'll be back later."
"What are you going to do?" Lu Jinfeng asked.
Wang Youyou glanced at the woman in labor in the clinic and said, "I'll go help this woman."
After saying that, she volunteered to go in.
She said to the mother's family, "Hello, I am Wang Youyou, a military wife, and my husband is the battalion commander. Please believe me, I can help this woman express her milk."
She said this to make the mother's family believe her.
Sure enough, when the woman's family heard that she was a military wife, they said respectfully, "Hello, thank you. Can you really help her?"
Before Wang Youyou could answer, the doctor stood up, shook her hand, and said, "Hello, sister-in-law. This patient has mastitis caused by milk stasis."
Wang Youyou shook hands with the doctor and said, "I see. Did you prescribe dandelion and loofah to boil water for her?"
When the doctor heard this, he thought she was also a doctor, so he replied, "Yes, the patient has a low-grade fever. We are communicating with them to deal with the fever."
"Okay, you go ahead and do your thing. I'll take care of the delivery."
Wang Youyou said, walked over to the woman in labor, and asked, "Don't be afraid. Mastitis is a problem many mothers encounter after giving birth. This should be your first child, right?"
First-time mothers generally do not know how to deal with mastitis and may feel particularly scared.
Although the mother was wearing a lot of clothes, a large area of her chest was soaked with milk.
The woman in labor nodded sadly, unable to speak.
Wang Youyou pulled up the curtain of the clinic and let the woman in labor lie on the bed inside the clinic.
Then he whispered to the mother, "I'll help you express your milk. It will be a little painful, but it will go away soon. Once the milk is expressed, your fever will go away. Otherwise, you will have to take medicine and you won't be able to feed the baby."
When she heard that she couldn't feed the baby, the mother was so scared that she cooperated obediently, lay down, and unbuttoned her shirt.
Seeing her breasts, which were swollen, red and big, like a balloon about to burst, Wang Youyou felt very distressed. The pain was really worse than a needle prick.
She helped the mother to express milk little by little, slowly and gently.
There was indeed a lot of milk. When I squeezed it gently, it gushed out like a spring. After squeezing it for a long time, it sprayed everywhere like a fountain.
Wang Youyou's hands were covered in milk, and there was also a lot of milk splashed on her face and clothes.
She didn't know how long she squeezed, but her hands were sore.
The milk flowed from the bed to the ground, and a large area of the ground was wet.
After the milk is expressed, the mother feels relaxed and stops crying.
But there is a hard thing on the red part of the chest, which is the blocked milk.
Wang Youyou asked her family to buy a thin sewing needle. After disinfecting it, she used the tail of the needle to slowly insert it into the mammary ducts one by one.
Try clearing it, squeezing it, and slowly trying to find out which milk duct is not producing milk, that is where the milk is blocked.
By slowly draining milk and searching patiently, Wang Youyou finally found the blocked milk duct.
After picking out a white particle, milk gushed out instantly.
Wang Youyou smiled, the woman in labor was saved!
It took two or three hours of squeezing and stopping to finally help the mother express her milk.
Compared with Cao Xuemei, it is really true that those who die from drought will die from drought, and those who die from floods will die from floods.
With so much milk, it is more than enough to feed three babies.
After the mother empties her milk, she feels very comfortable all over, a level of comfort she has never experienced before.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she thanked Wang Youyou, “Thank you, Comrade Wang! Without you, I don’t know what I would have done!”
Wang Youyou held her hand and comforted her, "I know that men only think you are delicate and don't understand the hardship of breastfeeding for women. For the sake of the baby, you have to be strong. You don't have any other problems, it's just a milk blockage. Go home and drink some dandelion water, it will be better soon, don't worry too much."
The woman in labor started crying again when she heard this.
It’s true, only women understand women.
Seeing that it was almost six o'clock, the husband of the woman in labor urged at the door: "Isn't it done? The doctor has gone off work."
"alright."
Wang Youyou came out and instructed the man, "In addition to making some dandelion and loofah water for her to drink, you should also make some hawthorn malt sugar water. Just drink it for one day. Also, don't drink soup these few days. Let the baby suck more. She won't squeeze it out. Help her suck it out when you have time. Don't be lazy."
The husband of the pregnant woman feels embarrassed. Why does everyone ask him to suck out the milk?
The mother-in-law asked in confusion, "Hawthorn malt syrup is used to reduce milk production. Does she want to drink it too?"
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