Health tips: more and more parents do mixed feeding for newborns, so what is the principle of mixed feeding? The mixed feeding of breast milk and complementary food can ensure that newborns have sufficient nutrition supply and healthy growth. Neonatal mixed feeding should strictly follow two principles.
Principle 1 of neonatal mixed feeding: it is not allowed to feed breast milk in one meal
Don't eat breast milk and milk at the same time. It's not proper. A meal of breast-feeding on all breast-feeding, even if not full, do not immediately feed milk, the next feeding time can be advanced. If you didn't feed breast milk in the last meal, you must feed milk in the next meal. If your baby is full in the last meal and it's time to feed in the next meal, your mother feels that her breast is very swollen, and there are a lot of milking, so she still feeds breast milk in this meal. This is because breast milk can not be saved. If the milk is choked, it will reduce the secretion of milk. The emptier the breast milk is, the more it secretes. So, don't save breast milk, have to feed, slowly may be enough for the baby to eat.
Principle 2 of neonatal mixed feeding: don't give up breast milk
The most common situation of mixed feeding is to give up breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is not only good for mother and baby, but also for mental health. Breastfeeding can make children get great maternal love. Moreover, some mothers milk later, but with the recovery of postpartum body, the amount of milk may continue to increase, if you give up, it is equal to giving up the baby's hope of breast milk. Don't be discouraged by setbacks. I hope your mother is confident that you can feed your lovely baby with your own milk.
There is a basis for adding milk
Whether breast milk is insufficient, it is best to analyze according to the baby's weight growth. If the weight gain is less than 200g a week, it may be that the amount of breast milk is insufficient. You can add milk once. Generally, you can eat milk once at four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The amount of milk can be added according to the needs of the baby.
The specific methods of adding milk are as follows:
Take 2-3 months old baby as an example. First, prepare 150 ml. if you drink it all at one time, and it seems you are not full, you can make 180 ml next time, but not more than 180 ml at most. If you can't eat it, cut it down. If you drink too much at one time, it will affect the next breast-feeding and make the baby indigestion. If the baby no longer cry in the middle of the night, or no longer noisy, weight gain more than 30 grams a day, or a week to increase more than 200 grams, you can always add.
If the baby is still crying with hunger, wakes up at night more times, and the weight gain is not ideal, it can be added 2 or 3 times a day, but do not overdose. Excessive addition of milk powder will affect the intake of breast milk. Please remember that breast milk is the best food for babies within 6 months.
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