When in family there is a small child, his parents constantly worry. They worry about that, what is the time the kid sleeps whether the tummy hurts him. One of the most important things interesting young parents is the question of that how many times a day are required to feed the newborn.
Who is considered to be the newborn?
The neonatality is a concept medical. It is used in relation to the child aged from 1 day up to 4 weeks irrespective of, he was born full-term, perenoshenny or premature. As at the time of the birth the direct intake of nutrients from mother to the child stops, in an organism of the baby the difficult process of formation of a gastrointestinal system and its adaptation to extra uterine life begins. Let's consider that most of children of the period of a neonatality are the children who are either on chest, or on artificial feeding.
There are no fundamental differences in quantity and frequency of feedings of babies and bottle-fed babies as the mixes used in the second case are close on the structure to female milk.
How often it is necessary to feed the newborn and how many he has to eat?
Answering this question, you remember that functionally unripe digestive system of the newborn from the first day of his extra uterine life bears big loading. The stomach of the baby contains volume only 10 ml, by the end of the period of a neonatality it reaches 90 — 100 ml, the gullet has poorly developed muscles, its length of 8 — 10 cm, diameter of 5 mm, mucous gentle, easily vulnerable. Glands producing digestive enzymes in a stomach and intestines are developed poorly. And here intestines are longer, than at the adult.
It is clear, that any violation of the rules of feeding easily causes violation in work of a gastrointestinal system of the baby.
When determining frequency of feeding of the newborn it is necessary to proceed costs from the fact that the child will not eat more, than it is necessary for it. And it means that at you it will not turn out to overfeed him. This fact has also the back: the organism of the child is aimed at constant intake of nutrients. Thus, it is clear that the frequency of feeding will be defined by duration and sufficiency of volume at the previous meal. Mothers know that the child during feeding can fall asleep, without having been in time it is good to eat. It is also necessary to consider that female breast milk low-calorie and low-fat. Therefore he can begin to hunger also in half an hour after the previous feeding. However it does not mean that there is no mode of feeding. Doctors recommend to feed the baby of the period of a neonatality from 8 to 12 times a day. The interval between feedings on average has to make 3 hours. But if the child is uneasy, wants to eat, hardly it makes sense to adhere to this mode precisely. The most important that the kid correctly gained weight, was quiet and developed according to the age.