For mom of the newborn it is important to know whether her milk is enough, whether her child is full. This question is the most relevant in the first months of life of the kid when it is so helpless and needs parental care.
As soon as the kid was born, everyone "new mom" is concerned: how many and how often the baby has to eat fully to raise, develop and be healthy.
How many it is necessary for newborns of food in the first days of life
After the delivery at the woman special substance – colostrum is produced. It is nutritious, much more sytny mature milk, his kid needs very little. In the next days at mom usual milk is developed.
How the appetite of the child increases, it is possible to judge by data stated below: The first day it is enough to kid to eat one spoon of colostrum. A stomach at it still absolutely small, and colostrum rather high-calorie. For the second day the child needs already the portion of colostrum increased to two spoons. It is necessary to feed the newborn for the third day longer, now he eats bigger volume. Every day the amount of milk for the kid has to increase, as well as time of its feeding. Two weeks later its portion makes about 500 grams a day, by six months it will make up to 1000 grams a day. The first month special – both for the kid, and for his mom. Already in maternity hospital many women face incredibly difficult and painful question. The baby in a womb was allocated with a sucking reflex, but in practice it is very difficult to it to adapt to a mother's breast. Especially as newborns have different structures of a mouth, and at women of a pacifier have specific features. These difficulties are surmountable therefore young women should not despair.
Features of breastfeeding
The first month the child especially needs maternal milk therefore the number of feedings can reach 12 times. The break between feedings makes about 2-3 hours, but it is an average value as doctors recommend to feed the kid on demand. Duration of feeding is from 15 to 40 minutes.
Artificial feeding
At this type of feeding there is a danger of overeating at the child, then it can have an indigestion. Therefore it is very important to calculate for it the necessary volume of food. In this case it is necessary to be based on the recommendations of the doctor which he will make after survey of the kid. There is an easy way of calculation of volume of food. It is necessary to increase the number of days from the birth by 10. Let's say for the fifth day of life to be necessary 50 ml of mix on one meal. Since third week of life and continuing up to two months, the child needs 1/5 from his body weight. Unlike the baby baby, the bottle-fed baby needs to be fed, adhering to the mode: in the afternoon – each three hours, and at night – with a break at 5 o'clock.