The children born before term or with any pathologies, grow more slowly and gain body weight. To help the child to gain weight, mother has to find out the reasons of its shortage.
Optional only premature babies lose weight. Sometimes a slow set of weight at the baby is connected not with health, and with the wrong feeding.
What to pay attention to first of all
Newborns are fed on demand, but not according to the schedule. Only from half a year it is possible to talk about any mode. Otherwise, the lactation can decrease and the child will begin not to gather additionally weight.
If the kid was born weakened, the ability to suck at him is reduced. Mame needs to watch that he not just slept with a nipple in a mouth, namely sucked a breast. Otherwise he will be constantly malnourished. Besides, the weakened children are fed longer, than healthy. Premature babies need more time to reach high-calorie back milk. Also it is worth checking whether correctly the child takes a breast. Some mummies cannot long understand why the child cries and clings to a breast. And only having learned to put correctly him, feedings can solve a problem. An indicator of satiety of the baby are frequent urinations. If the kid pisat 10-15 times a day, then everything is normal. Besides it is necessary to pay attention to color of urine – if it transparent and has no smell, so the child is healthy. But if urinations were reduced, and urine got a dark shade and a pungent smell, it is worth seeing a doctor.
How to help the child to gain weight
If the shortage of body weight is connected with any disease, it is necessary to follow all recommendations of the doctor. But if the child is healthy, but weight all the same does not gather additionally, mom needs to be engaged in its mode seriously. First, up to 6 months not to give to the baby anything, except a breast. Dokarmlivaniye from a small bottle can lead to the fact that the kid will just forget to suck a breast. For the same reason you should not give him dummies. If it is required to dopoit the child breast milk, it is necessary to make it by means of a tea spoon. Secondly, to help the child to gain weight after half a year, it is necessary to wait with maintaining in its diet of firm food. It is less kaloriyna, than breast milk, and it is worse acquired by a children's organism. Besides, to adjust a set of weight at the baby, mom has to contact to it as often as possible. It means – to sleep together with the child, to carry him on hands in the afternoon, to regularly do to the baby massage, to sing to it lullabies, to talk to him. According to experts, all these classes promote improvement of a lactation and help to adjust feedings. But most of all attention needs to be paid to the feeding. It means, not to take away a breast until he releases it from the child. Not to change a breast it is too frequent – it prevents the baby to reach fat back milk. It is also necessary to offer the kid the second breast and if he refuses, so it is really full.