Nursing Academy of Jakarta
Breast care is caring the breast regularly.
The advantages are:
- To take care and clean the breast
- To ease the breast milk out from the mother
- To keep the healthy body
The equipments needed are:
- Baby oil or coconut oil
- Two flanels
- Small towel
- Two palm of hands
- Warm water and cold water
- Cotton
There are 7 steps to do:
- Compress the nipple with the cotton and baby oil/coconut oil during 5 minutes
- Make the rotation movement in the nipple. Do this movement 30 times
- Pour the baby oil/coconut oil to the palm of hand
- Put one of the two palm of hands between two breasts and make a circle movement. Do this movement fifteen times
- Support the left breast with the left hands three fingers of the right hand, make rotation movement by giving pressure to the breast until the nipple
- Support the breast with one hand. While the other hand massage the breast with little fingers side up down nipple. Do this movement 30 times
- Compress the two breast with warm flannel during 2 minutes and then change one minute. Do this activity 3 times and finally compress with flannel.
Remember, while taking care of breast don't use alcohol and soap because the materials can make skin dry and irritated.
