FabSwingers.com forum: Of breastfeeding and cabbage leaves

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This made me smile recently. It's quite common for breastfeeding mums to have sore and cracked nipples. Apparently this discomfort can be eased by keeping a cabbage in the fridge and stuffing a leaf inside each cup of the bra.

You learn a new thing every day.

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By *elshsunsWoman
over a year ago

Flintshire

Yep it works l did this many moons ago

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Yep. It helps with the abscesses that often form too. My dad advised me to do it because his mum used to in the 20s. Cabbage leaves are no substitute for antibiotics though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I didn't need to use them but i was advised by my midwife that it helped in the short term

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Yep. It helps with the abscesses that often form too. My dad advised me to do it because his mum used to in the 20s. Cabbage leaves are no substitute for antibiotics though."

God no, not for an infection.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

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"Yep. It helps with the abscesses that often form too. My dad advised me to do it because his mum used to in the 20s. Cabbage leaves are no substitute for antibiotics though.

God no, not for an infection. "

That's what they were originally used for. Apparently savoy are the best.

In the twenties (my dad was born mid 1920s)with no access to health care without paying, cabbage leaves were about all they had.,

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

It's true.

Don't put the leaves in the freezer to cool them and forget about them though, when you open the freezer door and they fall out, they shatter like glass.

Yes, personal experience!

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

"This made me smile recently. It's quite common for breastfeeding mums to have sore and cracked nipples. Apparently this discomfort can be eased by keeping a cabbage in the fridge and stuffing a leaf inside each cup of the bra.

You learn a new thing every day.

Midwife here. They can be used to help with the discomfort of engorgement, cracked nipples are resolved by altering the positition and attachment of the baby and resolving any tongue or lip tie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Savoy cabbage leaves are the ones to use not just any cabbage leaves, provided me with much needed relief and I’m a midwife that’s what we advise to all breastfeeding ladies experiencing discomfort xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You learn a new thing every day.

Midwife here. They can be used to help with the discomfort of engorgement, cracked nipples are resolved by altering the positition and attachment of the baby and resolving any tongue or lip tie.

And lansinoh lots of it!

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By *opsy RogersWoman
over a year ago

London

You learn a new thing every day.

Midwife here. They can be used to help with the discomfort of engorgement, cracked nipples are resolved by altering the positition and attachment of the baby and resolving any tongue or lip tie.

And lansinoh lots of it!"

I never pronounce that stuff correctly, it always comes out as lasinoh.

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