Many mothers nursing children worry whether the child gorges on. One business when the kid receives food from a small bottle where it is visible how many he ate, and completely different – breastfeeding when it is quite difficult to measure it by eye. To understand whether is enough for the child of breast milk, it is necessary to be guided by objective signs.
Instruction
1. Count quantity of wet diapers during the day. The kid receiving sufficient nutrition normal urinates 6-8 and more times a day. If you use disposable diapers, refuse them for 1-2 days in favor of gauze or fabric to receive a real picture.
2. Attentively study a chair of the child. Yellow color and granular structure is considered normal, existence of undigested lumps is allowed. At the kid who receives rather high-calorific milk the chair happens 1-2 times a day or is more often as breast milk has natural laxative effect.
3. The green chair of the child can mean laktazny insufficiency: during feeding he exhausts the so-called front milk containing a lot of sugar, but does not receive fatter ""back"" milk having the greatest nutritional value. Perhaps, it lacks such food really for normal development.
4. Estimate the breast before feeding and after it: if before applying of the child it hard and full, and after – soft and considerably become empty, so the kid gorged on. The breast leaking between feeding says that milk is developed well.
5. Pay attention to behavior of the child during feeding: if it rounded cheeks, he releases a breast and falls asleep or does not sleep, but looks happy and quiet, so he is full. If after a meal the kid belches the curdled weight or serum, then there is no problem of shortage of milk at all: these are signs of a reforage. But when vomiting by milk it is necessary to address the pediatrician or the neurologist (there can be other problems).
6. You watch an increase of weight of the child. In the first 2 months the kids normal gain 100-200 g a week, up to 6 months – on 400-1000 g a month, from 6 months to one year – on 400-500 g a month. These average values, and in general the increase depends on specific features of the child: body weights at the birth, growth, a constitution, etc.
7. Carry out the following test: squeeze two fingers the site of skin of the child over muscles and bones. At the kid receiving sufficient nutrition it dense and elastic to the touch as has a good fat layer. The wrinkled skin which is freely lagging behind bones and muscles says that the child lacks milk. Try to adjust breastfeeding and address the pediatrician who if necessary will appoint a supplementary feeding mix.