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Breastfeeding MOT
What type of breastfeeding best suits your needs?
Breastfeeding support is a specialized area of physiotherapy. It focuses on using manual therapy techniques to help breastfeeding mothers with problems such as positioning and latching, milk production, nipple pain, and milk flow. It can also help with postural/muscle pain and discomfort associated with breastfeeding. In addition to manual therapy techniques, breastfeeding physiotherapy also includes education about positioning, latch, milk production, and other breastfeeding-related topics. A Breastfeeding Physiotherapy MOT is a comprehensive assessment that assesses the breastfeeding mother, her baby, and her breastfeeding technique.
During pregnancy and, above all, at the time of delivery, situations may occur in which the baby’s musculoskeletal system and/or meningeal system are affected, causing dysfunctions at different levels that may influence breastfeeding. This can happen especially in those deliveries in which instrumentalisation is necessary, aggressive manoeuvres such as the kristeller are performed, or physiological rhythms are not respected
On other occasions, there may be problems, such as a restrictive frenulum causing ankyloglossia, which hinder the movement of the tongue and cause the baby not to suck correctly or to compensate for sucking and feeding. Likewise, any pathology of musculoskeletal origin, such as torticollis, which may affect sucking-sucking-swallowing-
breastfeeding Support
What does a breastfeeding MOT include?
- A thorough assessment of your baby: assess your baby's musculoskeletal and sensory systems so that you can enjoy a happy and pain-free nursing
- I will look how is the feeding and how we can improve it, if any needed.
- I will check how is the handling, position, and latch
- If your baby must go under a frenectomy, I will guide you how to care pre and post operation
Mum's Care
Taking care of you is my priority
This MOT includes assessment if any of the following difficulties appears:
- Pain during suckling
- Mastitis and engorgement
- Nipple cracking
- Management problems with breastfeeding
- Production problems
- Doubts about supplementary food
- Latching, sucking and swallowing difficulties in your baby
- Breast refusal
- Crying during breastfeeding
- Weight problems in the baby
- Ankyloglossia and short frenulum
- And anything else that prevents you from nursing the way you want to.
We will be doing a follow-up or if you need any advice through messages or phone calls.
If you are looking for a speciality that helps women and babies achieve a happier life, you are in the right place.