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There is nothing extremely bad in bottle feeding with breastmilk. But if because of some reasons a woman can’t breastfeed her child and has to use bottle feeding with breastmilk, she should know how to do it correctly.

Expressing breastmilk is not an easy thing. Here are some tips which every mother has to know:

1. Breastmilk expression can be maintained by three means. They are: by hand, by breast pump and by electric pump.
2. If you have some problems with expressions do not be afraid to ask for advice or professional help. This is not as easy as it seems, you have to learn doing it correctly.
3. Express the same number of time, as you give bottle feeding with breastmilk to your child. This will help to maintain the supply of your breastmilk.
4. Do not forget to express breastmilk at night as well. You have to do it each four hours at least during the first several months. Moreover the hormone which is responsible for lactation is in its peak quantity at night (from 00 to 4 am.)
5. If your baby wishes to get more bottle feeding with breastmilk, you have to express your breastmilk more often.

Of course all the ladies know that alcohol and breastfeeding are incompatible, but not all ladies know why. So, here are some reasons:

1. Alcohol and breastfeeding are incompatible because of a serious mechanism of breastfeeding.

First of all while breastfeeding two types of hormones are produced: prolactin and oxytocin. Prolactin promotes milk production, and oxytocin is responsible for the milk to enter the nipple, after which your baby gets food. If you drink alcohol, the level of prolactin increases while the quantity of oxytocin decreases. As a result, your breasts are full of milk, but the baby has to suck much harder in order to get it, because it hardly enters trough the nipples. Most problems with breastfeeding begin usually at this very stage, when breast milk does not escape from the breast.

2. Alcohol and breastfeeding are incompatible also because even when you drink only glass of wine it still gets to the organism of your child with milk. The child’s liver is so small that it is not capable to digest alcohol in any quantities as a result it can cause great problems to your baby’s health.