How To Use Haakaa Newborn

When baby is finished on one side use your finger to break the suction of your haakaa and reattach to the side your baby just finished feeding on.

How to use haakaa newborn. Once your baby is calm they will be more willing to feed this is the same with breastfeeding as well. How to use the haakaa. Once the pump is secure and comfortable you can squeeze the base of the pump not interfering with the top suction to create some movement. Use calm tones and shhh noises to settle them. The epsom salt and warm water will help along with the suction to help clear the clogged duct.

The warm water plus the epsom salt should pull out the clog. Place it on your breast and squeeze to create suction. To get good suction. How to use a haakaa breast pump to use a haakaa you simply attach it to your breast while your infant suckles or you pump on the other side. Here s a helpful video that shows you how to do this.

A few tips on using haakaa to maximize the amount of milk that you get. The haakaa is genius for treating clogged ducts. Then add epsom salt and warm water to the haakaa and attach as normal. Put it onto your breast centering on your nipple areola. Movement can help too.

A tip i have for calming your baby is to get them stripped down to the nappy. Then you can relax while haaka does the work for you. You may or may not get milk on that side it just depends on if you have another let down or not. Invert the flange squeeze the air out of the base as much as possible line up your nipple with the centre of the flange. Fill the haakaa with warm water and a tablespoon of epsom salt.

I usually nurse 2 3x to get 2 3 oz combined. I d say try it and see how your baby reacts if they get frustrated on the 2nd breast because the flow is slower then you could just use the haakaa on the first breast once baby moves over to the 2nd rather than on both. The haakaa is really easy to use. Utilize the golden hour of milk production. And then flip the flange back over your breast.