Breastfed babies generally have the habit of eating night milk, which makes mothers very mad: when the mother is sleeping soundly, the baby cries and can only sleep dimly to get up to feed the baby. The baby should eat N times a night, and wake up at night, will it affect the baby's development?......
Problems such as these make nursing mothers deeply anxious and worried. In fact, feeding your baby night milk is not as bad as you think.
Common pitfalls of feeding your baby night milk
First, the baby will feed as soon as he cries
As long as the baby moves a little at night, the mother reflexively stuffs the nipple into the baby, which is not scientific.
If your baby wakes up at night hungry and drinks the same amount of milk as before, the mother can breastfeed.
However, if the amount of milk is small this time, it means that the baby is not hungry, but eats soothingly, in this case, the time of night feeding can be gradually delayed, and then the number of night feedings can be slowly reduced.
Second, let the baby eat only one side of the milk
Some mothers will have plenty of milk on one breast and a lesser breast. Mothers are accustomed to letting the baby eat the breast on the inflated side of the breast first, but when the baby eats this breast, it is basically full and no longer eats the other breast. The breast on the swollen side of the mother's milk is often stimulated, and more and more milk is secreted. The side that lacks milk will secrete less and less milk because it is not stimulated.
If the baby is allowed to eat only the milk of one breast for a long time, for a long time, it will form a partial head, torticollis, and strabismus, so that the baby's small face will also be large and small, and the back of the head will be convex and concave, affecting the normal development of the baby.
Third, let the baby sleep with the nipple
Most babies will eat and sleep, and some mothers are worried about waking up the baby, so they keep the baby with the nipple. There are also some mothers who think that if the baby holds the nipple all night, the baby will naturally suck as long as he is hungry.
In fact, these practices will not only affect the baby's smooth breathing, but also the baby's conditioned reflex of occasional inhalation, will also form an irregular eating, easy to lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, indigestion, but also on the normal development of the baby's teeth will cause adverse effects, will make the upper and lower jaw deformed, resulting in the upper and lower teeth can not bite normally.
In addition, the mother's breast is easy to block the baby's mouth and nose, and it is easy to suffocate the baby, which is not conducive to the growth and development of the baby. Babies have nipples all night, and they are also prone to cracking nipples.
Fourth, the mother feeds with bad emotions
Many mothers are physically and mentally exhausted because they have to do housework or go out to work because they take care of their babies during the day. At night, the baby wakes up and needs to be fed, resulting in lack of sleep for the mother, and people will become a little irritable.
The mood swings of the mother during breastfeeding, including irritability, surprise, sadness, anger, worry, etc., will inhibit the secretion of prolactin and cause the mother to lack milk. Therefore, mothers must ensure adequate sleep and maintain a comfortable mood in order to ensure the quality of breastfeeding.
What are the benefits of night milk for your baby?
1. The baby's sucking and stimulation of the nipple makes the mother produce more milk. The most prolactin production by mothers is at night, especially at 3-4 o'clock at night.
2. Feeding the baby night milk will increase the level of hormones with sedative effect in the mother's body and help sleep.
What are the dangers of babies eating night milk?
1. Increase the burden on the stomach and intestines
The work of the gastrointestinal tract of the human body enters a low point at night, and the digestive activity of food gradually slows down. Feeding at night will increase the burden on the digestive system, easily cause gastrointestinal disorders, and the baby will often cry because of abdominal discomfort.
2, the impact of growing tall
Relevant studies have confirmed that people consume less oxygen and calories during sleep, and the growth hormone released by the baby's body during sleep at night is higher than during the day, which is more conducive to growing taller.
3. Cause caries
Night milk can affect the health of teeth, especially babies who eat formula, and are more likely to develop caries.
4, easy to obesity
There is less nocturnal activity, and eating too much milk is easy to convert into fat in the body, making the baby grow too fat and affecting health.
5. It leads to insufficient intake of nutrients
Babies who are greedy for night milk will eat less food during the day, which often leads to insufficient nutrient intake and affects growth and development.