Breastfeeding babies will mostly have an anorexia period at five or six months, which may be that new mothers are often very entangled, how to deal with it?
Anorexia in the lactating period is divided into physiological anorexia and pathological anorexia, and physiological anorexia is the majority.
When the baby reaches five or six months, he should add complementary foods, and add milk for a long time, so once he encounters fresh and delicious complementary foods, he will prefer complementary foods, which belongs to the physiological anorexia of milk children, and there is no need to worry too much.
Its main performance is that the baby's mental and physical state is very good, it does not seem to have any discomfort, only the feeding is no longer emotionally interesting, eating and stopping, while eating and playing, the occurrence of anorexia period of breastfeeding is related to the following factors:
1, with the growth of the baby, eyes, ears and other physical functions gradually improve, curiosity with each passing day, it is easy to be affected by wonderful external environment, when feeding distraction can not concentrate.
2. If you are accustomed to fresh and elegant breast milk, if you want to replace it with a fishy formula, plus you can not adapt to the pacifier, you can also refuse to eat.
3, the baby grows up, relative to the mother's breast milk is less, the baby sucking effort, will also affect his desire to eat milk.
Physiological anorexia is only a temporary phenomenon, don't worry about going with the flow, just observe it for a few days.
Mommy can try to reduce the amount of milk she eats while sleeping, so that he may wake up hungry and be receptive to feeding.
During the day, you can try to feed breast milk or milk powder several times when your baby is hungry or in a better mood, and do not force it, so as not to aggravate the baby's refusal to milk.
It is also necessary to avoid over-feeding complementary foods, but if accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, fever or other abnormal manifestations, the so-called pathological anorexia, it is necessary to see a doctor in the hospital in time.