Introduction: In the process of breastfeeding, mothers often hear about small babies before three or four months, and daily feeding is on demand, that is, when the baby is hungry, they don't have to think too much about the law and the amount of food. But despite this, we will inevitably have some different situations in the daily breastfeeding process.
Babies who are 1 and a half months old are still in the stage of feeding on demand, but the babies we commonly see basically eat milk every three or four hours, but some babies will be much more frequent than this. So in the case of breastfeeding, is it normal to have this frequency once a day?
Here, Xiaobian feels that such a high frequency of breastfeeding is abnormal. Even if there is no problem in the baby's stomach, it is also a great problem for mothers, which will seriously affect the normal life of mothers.
Normal babies will basically maintain a time interval of 3 to 4 hours in the process of on-demand feeding, and this time will also be affected by the difference in the baby's specific stomach capacity and body absorption capacity, some babies will be hungry faster, and some will be hungrier slower. The root cause of the baby's need to eat frequently is that the baby is not full, and the stomach is quickly empty in a short period of time.
In the actual feeding process, there are many different reasons for the baby's lack of food, and the method of treatment is also different. To establish a normal dietary pattern for their babies, mothers need to pay attention to the following problems in the feeding process:
1. Whether there is insufficient breast milk
Many breastfeeding mothers will more or less have the problem of insufficient milk, and the amount of breast milk secreted by the body is not enough to provide the baby with a single intake, which will lead to the baby not having enough to eat, and the mother will have no milk. At this time, even if the mothers have been feeding for a long enough time, the baby is still not full, plus breast milk is better absorbed, and the baby is hungry again.
Faced with such a situation, mothers can choose to increase the secretion of breast milk so that the baby can eat enough, or choose a mix of breast milk and formula feeding. In fact, although breastfeeding is good, it also depends on the actual situation of their own body, after all, the benefits of breastfeeding are relative to the baby's ability to eat, the latter is the most important, the baby can eat enough to develop healthily.
2. Judge whether the baby is really full
Some mothers do not have much experience to distinguish whether the baby is full or not when they have just started feeding, and sometimes the baby stops breastfeeding before he has enough to eat, so that the baby is also very easy to be hungry. Therefore, mothers should carefully observe the baby's eating situation in the process of feeding, generally the baby will stop feeding after eating, and the attention of breastfeeding will be distracted.
Therefore, if the mothers find that the baby is still nostalgic when they stop breastfeeding, and the mouth is still just sucking and it is more difficult to let go, it proves that the baby may not have eaten enough. In this regard, we can appropriately extend the baby's feeding time, so that the baby can eat more, if you still can't eat enough, you need to consider the method of adding formula mentioned above.
3. Whether the baby's spitting up is serious
Spitting up after feeding is a more common problem for babies, but some babies may eat more, but at the same time vomit more, drinking 150 ml can spit out 60 ml, then the actual remaining in the stomach is only 90 ml of breast milk. At this time, even the baby who has been fed at the moment will be prone to hunger because of too much spitting up.
Therefore, mothers need to pay attention to trying to avoid the situation of vomiting after the baby eats, pay attention to the breastfeeding posture, and reduce the amount of air the baby inhales. Do not lay the baby flat immediately after feeding, but pick up the baby vertically and burp him, which will help to drain the air in the stomach and avoid spitting up.
Important: Normal babies are basically fed every 3 to 4 hours in the case of on-demand feeding, and it is not normal to feed once an hour. In this regard, mothers need to pay attention to whether it is insufficient breast milk to consider adding milk powder, and during the feeding period, they must know how to correctly judge whether the baby is really full, and also pay attention to the problem of the baby spitting up milk.
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