Breastfeeding: how?

If a woman has breasts, she can feed her her baby. Nature itself has taken care of that for mommy it was the most convenient and safe, so that doctors have not yet met cases of complete inability to breast-feeding. If there are any problems, usually in the first few days after birth in the hospital ...

Breast-feeding   - A natural process, and all women who gave birth is colostrum (it appears at the end of pregnancy). The tide of milk in mothers automatically. It does not depend on the outcome of the delivery, but it happens at different times. Doctors say that the feeding was successful in the first place, you need desire. Breastfeeding can almost any woman, no matter, "milk" it or "non dairy", young or "not very".

If the milk is no ...

Finish feeding newborn babies milk mixture until the arrival of my mother began relatively recently. Prior to that, for many centuries bottle-feeding   was completely unknown, the kids fed colostrum.

Some experts on breastfeeding believe that the need for supplementary feeding mixtures in our hospitals exaggerated. The body of a newborn baby is only suitable for colostrum. And despite the fact that a woman of colostrum produced very little, baby that's enough, because kidney he still immature. Only when my mother will rush of milk, they automatically will work harder to process large volumes of liquid.

The child loses weight ...

Many moms are panicking, knowing that the child loses weight . They think that it is starving. But doctors warn that in the first days of the baby may lose up to 10% by weight, which he had at birth. This fact is not related to the presence or absence of milk in mothers, children "lose weight" even bottle-fed. As a rule, after returning home from the hospital it quickly bounces back. Kid on the full breastfeeding   He begins to gain weight, (more than 200 grams per week) - as it should be.

How to breastfeed ...

Until it's milk for the first 2-3 days, the baby sucks his mother's breast "haphazard." He can do this several times a day, or vice versa - very often after 20-40 minutes after the last suckling. Mom does not need to specifically withstand any period.

With the advent of small milk begins to suck on average every hour during the day and at least 3 times during the night. This rhythm of sucking baby is normal. The duration of each feeding depends on the appetite of the baby, it can suck from 5 minutes to 1 5 hours.

What if he sleeps a lot and rarely sucks? In this case, my mother should offer the breast sleepy child. Newborns can sleep well and suck the mother's breast at a time.

About racking ...

If the mother has the opportunity often to feed your baby, then express milk she does not need. Usually the very first burst of milk is slightly larger than the baby needs. But when he frequently sucks, the situation quickly returned to normal, and the next day my mother's breast milk is produced, "according to the demand."

So, within days after the appearance of the milk mother decant absolutely not worth it, so as not to trigger at even greater tide. Decanting needed in cases where the baby for whatever reasons, are not breastfeeding or sucking rare and very little.

The baby suckles often, but somehow always crying ...

In the first days of life, infants do not cry of hunger, but because of their experiences. Yourself childbirth   It is a major stress for the baby, because it was moved into the strange and unfamiliar environment, and the memory of the shock will be for some time to bother a little. If at birth   and after them came physiological disorders and required the intervention of doctors, that instinctive fear and anxiety can worsen your baby.

At all reasons to cry in the newborn a lot , Any unfamiliar even to his action may cause crying, because otherwise react child can not yet. So do not necessarily perceive crying as a signal of hunger and feed the baby artificially. The bottle with the mixture may change the type of feeding, but to experience this baby will not stop.

Understand enough baby milk It can be by how he wrote. While the baby is fed a colostrum, is doing it 2-4 times a day. After the tide of milk pissing more than 6 times. After 10-14 days of life to urinate small must be at least 12 times, if the mother's milk is enough.

Wash whether the breast after feeding?

During normal hygienic shower can wash the chest, as usual, but to touch the nipples do not need. Especially with soap! Frequent washing can lead to chest cracked nipples.

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