Hello everyone, I'm Marshmallow Mom~
After giving birth, in addition to holding the child and changing the child's diapers, the most skilled thing for parents should be to make milk powder for the child.
Many people think that making milk powder, such a simple thing, can I still do it badly? Isn't it just pouring milk powder, putting some water, and shaking it again? Don't say, making milk powder is really not a simple thing, there are really a lot of details.
My sister is a pediatrician, and when I gave birth to my daughter, my sister also specially taught me how to properly make milk powder for my child.
Because of the hospital where my sister is, there was a grandmother who used vegetable juice to make milk powder for the baby, because the child's grandmother felt that the child's milk powder would be "on fire", so she wanted to use vegetable juice to make milk powder for the child and lower the fire for the child, but fortunately, the child's parents stopped it in time.
The child has only been born a few days, how can you drink vegetable juice, the organ development is not complete, the digestive ability is not strong, and it is harmful to the child's body.
The milk powder is soaked in this way, which is simple and error-free
I remember the first time I made milk powder for my daughter, and I was really worried about whether my method of making milk powder was right. Back then, my husband, a novice father, heard his daughter crying hungry and panicked to soak the milk powder into milk paste, and I was crying and laughing on the side!
In fact, the steps of making milk powder are not complicated, and the milk powder is soaked in this way, which is simple and error-free. My pediatrician sister summed up the following points for me:
What water to use to make milk powder
Milk powder for children, plain water is an affordable and economical option. Like mineral water, vegetable juice, fruit juice, rice soup, these are not suitable for making milk powder for children.
Take mineral water, for example, many people feel that the tap water at home is not as clean and healthy as mineral water, so they want to use mineral water to make milk powder for their children, and pediatricians do not recommend this.
Because mineral water is from groundwater, the mineral content in the water is more, and adults have no problem drinking it. But the child is too young, the kidneys have not yet developed well, long-term drinking mineral water, will increase the burden on the kidneys, which will affect the child's health.
The water temperature of the milk powder
My habit is to boil the tap water first, kill the bacteria in the water, and then cool the water to 45~55 °C to make milk powder. When brewing milk powder, if the water temperature is too high, it will destroy the nutrients in the milk powder, and it is more likely to cause the milk powder to clump, uneven preparation, and affect the child's digestion and absorption.
By the way, before giving your child milk, don't forget to drop a drop or two of milk to the inside of your wrist, you don't feel warm or hot, then this temperature is just right, you can drink it for your child.
Add water first or milk powder first
This is a common mistake made by many new mothers, and the pediatrician is recommended: add water first, then put milk powder. Because if you add milk powder first, then add water, and add it to the specified scale, the milk will be somewhat thick; And if you add water first, and then add milk powder, the concentration is just right.
Children should not drink too strong milk, some parents think that thicker milk is more nutritious, but will make the child indigestion. Moreover, too thick milk will make the child's stomach and intestines difficult to digest, which is not good for the child.
Therefore, let's make milk powder for children or according to the amount of water and milk powder recommended in the instruction manual to adjust the proportion, do not adjust it yourself, it is not good for the healthy development of children.
Do not shake the bottle up and down
Make milk powder for your child, do not shake the bottle up and down, preferably from side to side. Shaking the bottle up and down will easily produce bubbles, and if the child inhales too much air when drinking milk, it is easy to get flatulence and stomach pain.
I offer a little tip: shake it from side to side, grasp the bottle in the palm of your hand, swing your wrist from side to side, or you can roll the bottle back and forth in your palms until the formula is well dissolved.
After feeding your child powder, don't forget to brush the bottle clean to avoid the accumulation of milk scale and bacteria.
Isn't it as complicated as you might think! As long as the method is right, making milk powder for children is not a difficult task.
Milk soaking is not standardized, the baby has two lines of tears, new parents and elders with babies, let's unlock the correct milk powder preparation steps!
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