How to make good use of mixed feeding

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[Abstract] face postpartum insufficient breast milk, mothers often worry baby will therefore malnutrition, which affects the child's healthy growth and development. Mixed feeding is inadequate for postpartum mothers breast-feeding a good way. So, moms have a small problem which mixed feeding aspect of it.

Q1: How to determine the lack of breast milk

Many new mothers are breastfeeding their adequacy skeptical. In fact, the survey shows a real lack of breast milk occurs in approximately 5% or less. Baby eat less than enough breastmilk main reasons include:

1. Mother psychological factors. Lack of confidence, nervousness, anxiety, fatigue.

2. maternal and child health factors. Postpartum lactation suppression mother used drugs such as diuretics and contraceptives, maternal smoking or drinking.

3. improper breastfeeding. Breastfeeding as soon as possible after birth, no, before opening a bottle of milk and feed the baby pacifier; feed other liquid or food; fewer feeding, neonatal sucking less than 8 times a day; at night do not feed; posture pick-containing breast incorrect, etc. .

The baby's own factors, such as a sick child or have oral deformities, reduce the number of sucking make a corresponding reduction in milk secretion.

5. The temporary supply shortage. 2 weeks, 6 weeks, and infant weight gain in three months or so of relatively rapid increase in requirements for milk, but milk secretion to a corresponding increase in a few days, causing a temporary shortage. Therefore, when the baby can not eat enough breast milk, to find reasons not to blindly give "insufficient breast milk" conclusion. So, how to determine the "insufficient breast milk" mean?

1. Baby oliguria and thick, less than 6 times a day;

2. The weight is unhealthy growth of each month, the baby six months or less increase of less than 500 grams per month. You can be judged based on the above two points. If that is not enough breast milk, you need to add the appropriate formula as a supplement.

Q2: how to spend "temporary nursing crisis."

"Temporary nursing crisis" is usually the performance is already plenty of milk secretion in the postpartum mother two weeks, six weeks and three months when a sudden reduction consciously milk, breast milk, no sense of expansion, about half an hour after feeding the child is crying eating, weight gain is not obvious. This phenomenon is caused mainly because of the rapid increase in infant weight requirements increase, the mother is too tired and tense, less feeding times a day, every suck enough time, there are one sick mother and mother menstruation and so on. In order to get through this period, the mother can refer to:

1. To ensure adequate sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, stay relaxed and pleasant mood.

2. The appropriate increase in the number of breast-feeding, sucking more times, the more milk secretion.

3. Breast sucking on each side, at least 10 minutes or more, on both sides of the breast should be sucking and emptying, which is beneficial to both lactation, but also after the baby sucked milk containing higher fat.

4. temporarily unable to suck when the baby is sick, you should milk out, with a cup and spoon feed your baby; if the mother can not breastfeed when sick, should give the baby breast-feeding milking frequency to ensure continued breastfeeding after they have recovered.

5. menstrual period is just a transient reduction in milk, menstruation can be much milk to feed twice a day, the amount of milk after menstruation will resume as before.

Q3: "on behalf of the grant Law" good or "fill delegate Law" good

If the mother is breast-feeding method is correct but does very little, may be appropriate to add some formula milk. There are two complementary methods, called "fill grant Law", that is, and then feed the breast milk to supplement other dairy products. The benefits can be avoided newborns eat a formula later, because there is no hunger, do not want to suck breast milk and lead to a further reduction in breast milk secretion, but also help stimulate the secretion of breast milk to ensure that children can get some breast milk. Another method is called "award on behalf of Law", it is to use formula milk or other dairy substitute one or several times breastfeeding. Generally, before the mother did not work, we do not advocate this feeding method is often used because it would reduce the secretion of breast milk.

Q4: How to keep breast milk secretion when mixed feeding

First recommended as a "complement grant Law", the first breastfeeding and then complement other dairy products, especially at night but also to insist on breastfeeding; guaranteed to make your baby to suck the breast more than eight times a day, each time try to suck empty breasts. In addition, the mother and baby to be together as much as possible, often cuddle baby. When the mother's milk secretion, to promptly reduce the amount and formula feeding times. Working mother can use "award on behalf of Law", but during work, best to stick to the timing of a breast pump.

Q5: After eating breast milk, formula milk and then add much more appropriate

The principle of mixed feeding formula milk is added to start a small start, such as a 30 ml, and then observe the baby's reaction. Not less than one hour to fall asleep or wake up, open mouth looking nipple even crying, that he did not eat, you can then increase the amount of suitable, such as a 50 to 60 ml If the baby to eat. And so on, until the baby nurse can be quiet or sustained over one hour of sleep.

In addition, if within 6 months, your baby weight gain of more than 500 grams months, indicating that the amount of feed has been able to meet its growth needs. Since each baby's needs are different, so the parents only through careful observation and continue to try to understand the true requirements of their baby.

Q6: After breast milk can be sucked out, and feed your baby formula milk mix it

This method is not recommended. First, the baby's sucking better than manual milking promote the secretion of mother's milk; second, higher temperature if the reconstituted formula milk, will destroy the immune substances contained in breast milk; again, this is not easy to grasp the need to supplement the formula amount; and finally, breastfeeding is not only to let the baby get milk nutrients and other substances are not immune, and direct skin contact through mother to child, the baby psychological met, more conducive to establishing good parent-child relationship.