"Babies often wake up after a little sleep, and sometimes they open their mouths to look around for food, does this situation mean that the baby is not full?" This is a private message from a mother.
This kind of scene, many mothers are also very familiar, often encountered?
So is this kind of performance a sign that the baby is not full?
The baby wakes up after sleeping for a while, and still opens his mouth to look around for food, does it mean that he is not full?
Actually, not necessarily.
If the baby does not have enough to eat, it will indeed affect sleep, and it may be possible to wake up after sleeping for a while.
Because the baby can't talk, he will tell the mother by waking up frequently, crying, and finding milk to eat these "baby-specific ways": I am not full.
But waking up after a while of sleep is not necessarily a lack of food, but it may also be for other reasons.
Therefore, at this time, the mother must first objectively judge: is the baby really not full?
It can be judged from these aspects:
Observe your baby's bowel movements.
Newborn babies do not have much bowel and bowel movements, and by about 5-6 days of birth, babies will have more than 6-8 clear urine per day; stool is about 4-6 times a day, and some babies can reach 6-8 times, or even more, which is related to the baby's feeding milk.
Observe your baby's weight.
Moms first have to understand the fact that babies are not as fat as possible.
As long as the baby's growth and development are up to standard, it is normal.
According to the growth and development curve released by the World Health Organization in 2006, the weekly weight of babies from 0-12 months is as follows:
0-3 months: weekly increase of 155-241g
4-6 months: 92-125 g per week is required
7-12 months: 50-80g per week
That mother can often help the baby record the weight, if within the normal growth curve is normal, do not always feed the baby, frequent feeding is easy to cause "overfeeding".
Observe your baby's crying.
Crying is the main way for small babies to express their needs.
When you are hungry, you will cry, you will urinate, you are uncomfortable, you want your mother to hug you, etc., and you will still cry.
Therefore, when the baby is crying, the mother should be able to accurately judge whether the baby is hungry or not.
At this time, you can first look at the time, whether it is the time when you need to breastfeed, if it is not time to feed, you can check your diapers to see if there is defecation.
If you don't pull or pee, you may want to find a mother and you can hold the baby.
"The baby will wake up after sleeping for a while" may also be these reasons, the new mother should not feed blindly, beware of the pit baby
Baby a short sleep time, a moment to wake up, in addition to not enough to eat, but also may be the following reasons, do not baby wake up, a cry, the mother will only feed, so it is easy to overfeed the baby, there is food accumulation, indigestion, obesity.
Uncomfortable sleeping environment.
Especially for small month-old babies, the requirements for the sleeping environment are relatively high, if the sleeping environment is uncomfortable, it will also "interfere" with the baby's sleep.
For example, the room temperature is too high or too low, or too dry, the light is too bright, the room is too noisy, etc., will make the baby sleep unsteadily.
Therefore, the mother can also check the indoor environment to see if there are any environmental factors that make the baby feel uncomfortable.
And when the baby is asleep, try to keep quiet, during the day the baby can close the curtains after falling asleep, dim the light at night, if the room feels dry, you can use a humidifier.
Your baby is not feeling well.
Like us adults, when the baby is unwell, he will not sleep well and wake up frequently.
However, the causes of physical discomfort in different months of age will also be different.
2-3 months old baby, may be flatulence or intestinal colic, after 4 months, may be teeth discomfort, or sick, such as cold fever, diarrhea and so on.
If the previous factors can be ruled out, you can find specific reasons from it and correctly help the baby alleviate it.
If there is flatulence in the stomach, you can help the baby to do exhaust exercises, massage the stomach in a clockwise direction, aircraft hugs, swaddling, etc., usually pay attention to feeding correctly, avoid the baby eating too much air, and burp after feeding.
Your baby is deficient in vitamin D.
Babies born normally at term should be supplemented with vitamin D400IU daily starting at 2 weeks after birth.
If the baby does not supplement, or the amount of supplement is insufficient, it may lead to the baby's vitamin D deficiency, which in turn leads to calcium deficiency causing autonomic excitement, and the baby is easy to wake up when sleeping.
In short, as a new parent, the most important thing is to understand more scientific parenting knowledge, so that in the process of taking the baby, the problems encountered can be timely and accurately coped, they will not be too anxious, and it is not easy to make mistakes.
Your baby is a few months old, whether it is a sleeping scum baby or an angel baby, or what problems or experiences you have with your baby's sleep, are welcome to share and discuss.