How long does it take for your baby to breastfeed once?
Guo Ma's friend Fawn is a new second-born mother. Some time ago I went to see the fawn and found that her 2-month-old baby girl could eat for half an hour! Guo Ma was surprised and asked, "Why did Xiao Bao take so long to suckle?" ”
Xiao Lu smiled and said, "It is estimated that it is because she is a girl, so she is more squeamish and has less strength." Although it was a little tiring to feed for half an hour, it was really happy to breastfeed in my arms! ”
Guo Mama understands the fawn, she originally loved the child, and this time she gave birth to a daughter as she wished, so the mother's love flooded. However, Guo's mother still had to tell the fawn that the baby was too slow to feed, which was really not a trivial matter, let alone a good thing.
01 The baby's slow feeding is not a trivial matter, and it may be detrimental to the recovery of the mother and the health of the baby
Maternal impact
For pregnant women, when the baby is breastfeeding, the mother needs to maintain a posture for a long time to feed, and the feeding position needs to be supported by the mother with the "waist", which is very unfavorable to the recovery of the mother's waist and abdomen. Over time, it is easy to fall into the problem of waist pain.
Effects on your baby
The baby's feeding time is very long, and in this process, the baby's stomach will inhale a lot of air, which can easily lead to "milk leakage".
In addition, if the feeding time is too long, the stimulation of the baby's stomach and intestines will be reduced, which will make the baby's digestive function become disordered, easy to digest, not easy to absorb, thereby affecting the baby's growth.
02 The baby is slow to feed, there may be 3 reasons, and the mother needs to solve the symptoms in time
Cause 1: Insufficient breast milk production or too small a milk hole in the bottle
If the mother's breast milk secretion is not enough, or the hole in the bottle is too small, then when the baby sucks, it is equivalent to spending a lot of effort, but it has not eaten anything, let alone eaten. So the baby will be tired, but still want to eat, just delayed eating, has been eating like this.
If it is for this reason, then the weight gain of such babies will be more average, and the stool will even be green.
Workaround
For exclusive breastfeeding mothers, we must find ways to "chase milk" to increase the secretion of breast milk so that the baby can eat a lot. Generally speaking, mothers can drink more water and soup to keep a happy mood and make breast milk more adequate.
If the milk chase can not catch up, then it is necessary to add milk powder to the baby appropriately, each time let the baby eat breast milk first, and then eat milk powder, once on demand.
For milk powder babies, the choice of pacifier is very important, the hole is too big to make the baby choke, the hole is too small, and the baby can't suck out and eat enough. Therefore, be sure to choose a pacifier for the appropriate age. In the case of parents without experience, it is not recommended to poke and cut the nipple hole on their own.
Reason 2: The environment is noisy and distracts the baby's attention
A good friend of Guo Ma's mother, she said that when her son used to breastfeed, he was very obedient and fast, but since entering 2 months, breastfeeding has become more and more naughty, and he always looks around.
After calling and chatting, I learned that she thought breastfeeding was too boring, so she always liked to watch TV dramas while breastfeeding.
As your baby grows up, at more than 2 months, he will pay more and more attention to his surroundings. If the environment is noisy, then the baby's attention will be distracted, thinking about a few sips of milk while trying to see what is happening around him. In this way, the speed of the baby's feeding is naturally not fast.
Guo Ma's friend, when breastfeeding later, concentrates on breastfeeding, does not watch TV, does not play mobile phones, refuses to let the family watch the baby to feed, then the baby's feeding will gradually return to normal, not so slow.
For families with large populations and mothers who love to watch TV and mobile phones, when feeding their babies, they can try to choose a relatively quiet environment to breastfeed. If the baby's attention is not distracted, he will concentrate on eating the milk well and full.
Reason 3: Physical causes
Although this category is relatively special and rare, parents still need to pay attention to it a little. Such babies are easy to choke when they are breastfeeding, or they will sweat a lot after eating. This may be related to the baby's heart, respiratory tract, etc., it is best to go to the hospital to check it.
03 Other two situations similar to "eating slowly", Bao Mom also needs to pay attention
The first one: the baby "eats and stops"
Eating stops, and many babies do. In general, it is caused by insufficient breast milk of the mother, or the baby's unskilled sucking and insufficient sucking strength.
If there is insufficient breast milk, then the mother can refer to the above content to promote milk or add milk powder.
If the baby's own sucking strength is insufficient, then the mother can gently squeeze the chest with her own hand before breast milk to stimulate the secretion of milk, so that the difficulty of the baby's sucking will be reduced.
The second kind: the baby "eats a few bites and sleeps"
This kind of baby is too rare, a careless, you will develop the habit of "milk sleep" of the baby, pistachio was when he was a child.
When pistachio was a child, it was easy to sleep after eating milk, but I didn't know it at the time, and I only thought that the child was sleepy. Later, it gradually developed that pistachios were sleepy, and they had to eat a milk before they would sleep.
The length of breastfeeding time, there will be individual differences, if breast milk is more abundant, or the baby is more sleepy, then it is very normal to sleep when you are full, but you must not form a habit. In particular, some people who eat and sleep, but after a while cry and want to breastfeed, belong to sleep without eating.
In order to avoid the baby from sleeping without eating, the mother cannot wrap the baby too tightly and wear too thickly when feeding the baby, so that the baby has a comfortable position to feed. If the baby shows signs of falling asleep, then the mother can shout the baby's name, gently pinch the baby's earlobe, or gently flick the baby's foot, so that the baby will be fed, and after eating for a few minutes, then fall asleep.
In this way, the baby is full and will not develop the habit of milk sleeping.
Pistachio Mom message
There are many details of breastfeeding, about the baby's slow feeding, feeding and sleeping, etc., as a mother, we must find the key reasons, and then solve the symptoms. The baby eats well, the growth and development can be good, and the mother can be at ease!