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How to Manage Breastfeeding problems || Simple Nutrition ||Ep37
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Jun 30, 2025
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every year the first week of august is
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well breastfeeding week
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and this year's theme is protect
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breastfeeding a shared responsibility
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it's important to know that initiation
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of breastfeeding within the first hour
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of birth
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is important exclusive breastfeeding
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for the first six months is important
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continued breastfeeding up to two years
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or more alongside nutritious
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complementary foods
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is equally important and because of the
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very many benefits that breastfeeding
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has both the child
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and to the mother there's a very strong
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need to find solutions
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to most common breastfeeding problems
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that most
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kenyan women and women all over the
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world encounter
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welcome back to my channel thank you so
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much for tuning in
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if you're new here please consider
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subscribing and turn on your
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this is a nutrition and lifestyle
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channel on this channel
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i give very easy tips and tricks that
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can help you
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keep and maintain a healthy lifestyle
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so the very first common breastfeeding
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problem that most mothers encounter
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is not producing enough milk and when
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you're not producing enough milk
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what is going to happen your child is
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going to be
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crying all the time your child is going
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to be very uncomfortable
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your child is going to go into
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malnutrition or even become
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underweight so when you're talking about
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not producing
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enough milk there are so many things you
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need to do that can help you
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boost your milk supply and the most
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important thing is obviously
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change your diet improve your diet
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choose very healthy foods
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that can help you increase milk
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so when you're talking about a healthy
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diet i've talked so many times about
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choosing balance that
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the foods that are healthy versus the
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foods that are not healthy
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when you're smoking when you're drinking
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alcohol
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a lot that would totally affect the milk
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supply so those are the things you're
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supposed to avoid
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in the first place and when you're
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talking about healthy diets you're
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talking about
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all the food groups you need to consume
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food from all those food groups you're
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talking about carbohydrates the proteins
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the vitamins the minerals
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and even fluids especially when you're
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lactating when you're breastfeeding it's
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important to increase your fluid intake
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okay besides that you also need to eat
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more proteins you also need to eat more
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vitamins and minerals because you're
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eating for your baby what you're eating
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is what your baby is going to have
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so supposing you're taking too much
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alcohol and smoking cigarette oil
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breastfeeding
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that is exactly what your child is going
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to get so it's important to improve
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and choose the foods that you eat very
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very wisely
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also when you're breastfeeding you need
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to increase
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the amount of foods that you eat the
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frequency
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the portion because now you're eating
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for you
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and for your baby you need to include a
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very healthy snack
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in between the main meals when i'm
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talking about a healthy snack
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encourage i encourage more snacks that
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are flowing
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you're talking about porridge blended
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juices and even if you can get a fruit
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or any other snack
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in between the meals it's also good for
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you
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besides choosing healthy diet increase
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uh your water intake
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another important thing that can help
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you increase your your milk supply is
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breastfeed often when you're
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breastfeeding often your hand expressing
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you're using the breast pump
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then you're boosting your milk supply
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and at the same time
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you're you're storing milk that can be
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used
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for your baby when you're away another
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thing
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is to breastfeed your baby on both
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breasts
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okay that is just uh obvious when you're
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breastfeeding for
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your breastfeeding from both breasts
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that is more milk being
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produced and lastly because
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breastfeeding is psychological
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it is in your mind anything that is
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disturbing you anxiety stress
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all those emotional issues that you have
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are going to drastically affect your
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milk supply
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so what you're going to do here is going
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you're going to
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find ways to manage your emotional
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issues
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when you're breastfeeding your baby find
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a very comfortable
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very peaceful place sit down and
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breastfeed your baby where you cannot
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get
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distractions managing stress anxiety and
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all those emotional issues breastfeeding
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your baby often
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you know breastfeeding on both breasts
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and also having a very healthy diet are
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some of the ways you can increase
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your milk supply so going on to the next
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problem that most mothers encounter is
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sore
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and cracked nipples so we are talking
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about pain here we're talking about
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discomfort you know your nipples are
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cracked so you're gonna
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breastfeed your baby as you wish you're
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having pain and discomfort or your
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breastfeeding
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so what are you going to do are you
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going to stop breastfeeding no
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you're going to find ways you can manage
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the pain as well as continue
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breastfeeding so um one of the causes of
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traction and sore nipples is
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poor attachment your baby is not latched
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well you're not attaching your baby well
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to the breasts
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you're not holding your baby in a
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position that the baby can't circle well
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and therefore you develop
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the cuts and also the sore nipples so
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what you need to do is attach your baby
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well
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hold your baby when when you're
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breastfeeding and also um
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learn ways to let your baby properly and
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in this case i'm talking about
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the baby's mouth should go all through
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the nipple
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and to the areola this helps prevent the
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sow and crack nipples and also
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at the same time it helps boost milk
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supply
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another way to deal with this is to
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continue breastfeeding beside the pain
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because mostly cracked nipples
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the pain goes away it heals by you
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continuing breastfeeding you don't need
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to stop
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because when you stop breastfeeding
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you're denying your baby the benefits of
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breast milk you know
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as you continue breastfeeding besides
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the vein you also want to prevent
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further damage
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by making sure your baby is attached
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well and your baby is slashed well to
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the breast
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and this can be very helpful the third
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problem that most mothers encounter is
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engorged breasts and then god's breath
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simply means their breasts are so full
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they're hard and they're very painful
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most women are not comfortable to
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breastfeed when they have engorged
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breasts
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so the solution to this problem is very
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easy make sure your baby is
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breastfeeding often breastfeeding often
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make sure make sure that the
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milk is not stuck in the breasts and
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therefore you want to encounter this
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problem another thing if you're away
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from your baby if you're working mother
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if you're busy away from the child
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you can hand express or use a breast
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pump to express the milk and store
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it properly so that the baby can take it
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on a later time
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breastfeeding often using a hand
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expressing method
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or using a breast pump to express the
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excess nail can really help you
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deal with engorged breasts and lastly we
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are talking about producing too much
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milk
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most women present this as a problem but
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for me that is a good thing
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you only need to learn how to choose the
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proper containers how to
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store them in properly so that the child
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can still have the milk
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and and not letting it go into waste so
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in this video we've talked about four
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most common
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breastfeeding problems there are so many
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out there if you have any other question
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put them in the comment section below
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we've talked about not producing
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enough milk we've talked about uh
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cracked and so nipples we've talked
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about
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engorged breasts we've also talked about
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producing too much milk
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if you have any other problems that have
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not been mentioned on this video you can
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put them in the comment section
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below also remember to like and share
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that i post and so
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with this video is another video that i
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did last year on do's and don'ts
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of breastfeeding for new months those
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are very simple tips and tricks that new
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moms can use
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so that they enjoy the breastfeeding and
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also make sure the child is getting all
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the benefits that come with breast milk
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thank you for joining me today
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until next time bye