In the first few days after the baby is born, the baby’s chest may harden and the milk will flow through the nipple, which will eventually disappear naturally.
Usually, in two weeks, the baby’s chest is no longer stiff and no milk comes out of the nipple.
- It is normal for the baby’s breast to become stiff.
- Resembling a lump.
- And milk to come out of the nipple.
- Both in boys and girls.
- Because the baby still has the mother’s hormones responsible for the development of the mammary glands.
- In his body.
This release of milk from the baby’s chest, called breast swelling or physiological mastitis, is not a disease and does not occur to all babies, but eventually disappears naturally when the baby’s body begins to remove the mother’s hormones from the bloodstream.
Parents should take the baby to the emergency room or pediatrician when the baby’s chest swells, redens, warms, and starts dripping the pus or when the baby has a fever greater than 38 degrees Celsius.
In these cases, the baby’s chest may be infected and the pediatrician should guide appropriate treatment, usually done with antibiotics and, in more severe cases, surgery.