Do baby girls need to have their nipples squeezed?

When a baby is born, the older generation will squeeze out the baby's sunken nipples according to tradition. In fact, what they don't know is that this practice is very wrong. What’s more, the older generation has no idea that this practice is also particularly dangerous. As for the question of whether the nipples of newborn baby girls need to be squeezed, let us take a look at the detailed answers from relevant personnel today.

Of course don't squeeze, this is a traditional and meaningless practice. A few days after birth, a newborn may have a bulge in the breast, and may even have milk-like fluid flowing out.

The practice of expressing breast milk for newborn baby girls is that if the nipples are not squeezed in time, the child will develop inverted nipples when she grows up.

In fact, expressing breast milk for a newborn girl is not a way to prevent inverted nipples, and whether or not the nipples are inverted has nothing to do with it. And expressing breast milk is very dangerous.

Breast enlargement and lactation in newborns is a physiological phenomenon and does not require special treatment. Both male and female babies may experience breast secretion or enlargement within a few days after birth. This is caused by the fetus being affected by high concentrations of prolactin and other hormones in the mother's blood, which causes breast hyperplasia. After birth, because the mother's hormones will remain in the newborn's body for a period of time, the newborn's breasts will swell and even secrete milk. About 1 to 2 weeks after birth, the hormone level in the newborn's body gradually decreases, and is finally completely secreted and excreted from the body, and the phenomenon of breast swelling disappears automatically. So there is no need to express the milk.

If you express breast milk for your child, it may cause inflammation of the breast tissue. If the breasts are enlarged and lactating and the skin is red and swollen, and the child cries when touched, mastitis should be considered and you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

Whether or not nipple inversion will occur in the future is related to development and whether breast care is done well during pregnancy, but has no direct relationship with whether breasts are squeezed during the neonatal period.

Even today, this phenomenon still exists, both in rural areas and in cities. That is to squeeze the baby's nipples after the baby is born, and they insist on doing so no matter how much pain and crying the baby is in. In fact, these people are too deeply influenced by old customs and habits. According to the theory of old customs, it is believed that the nipples of newborns must be squeezed, especially for baby girls. If the nipples are not squeezed, they will have "blind nipples" and will not be able to breastfeed in the future. Some people may think that if the baby's nipples are not squeezed, the nipples will not develop ideally and will not look good when they grow up, which may cause retracted nipples.