hindmilk

Hindmilk gives baby a feeling of being full and satisfied.

Hindmilk has a creamier color and texture because it contains more fat.

Express a few drops of hindmilk and smear on the nipple.

In these cases one must pay attention to latching on and the intake of hindmilk, which tends to stimulate stooling.

It then takes a while for the hindmilk, still being manufactured and let down, to flow through the nipple and touch the infant's hunger button.

In the 1980s and 1990s, lactation professionals (De Cleats) used to make a differentiation between foremilk and hindmilk.

Foremilk, the milk the baby gets when he first starts to feed, does not contain more lactose than hindmilk, but it does contain less fat.

The baby can regulate whether it drinks more of the hindmilk or foremilk depending on whether it is thirsty or hungry.

Although the use of hindmilk can be healing, prolonged exposure to surface wetness slows the healing process, much like licking chapped lips ultimately makes them worse.

It is important that your baby gets a good balance of both foremilk (milk at the beginning of the feed) and hindmilk (milk at the end of the feed).

Advice to treat nipple damage exclusively with hindmilk and air exposure is both impractical and insensitive to the mother's pain, and contrary to modern principles of moist wound healing.