Night feedings are an important process as during the daytime. Especially in the first weeks of the life of the baby, you must often apply to the chest for the correct power mode.
Night feeding of the newborn should always be done regardless of the type of feeding: milk or artificial mixtures. Until two months of life, the baby must eat that during the day that at night is equally, every 2-3 hours. At such periods, the child forms its power mode and asks to eat at certain hours. The feeding of a child at night is much easier to carry out mothers, nursing breasts than the fact that they are fed with mixtures. So, nursing women need only to attach a child to the chest and it will start to eat, and the mixture needs to be brewing and warm up, which is reflected on the quality of a woman's sleep.
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Night breastfeeding
Women who feed their baby breast milk is easier to wake up and feed. They, as a rule, have been formed sleep and wake-up mode. Some mothers who have sensitive sleep are preparing to the process a few minutes before the wrecking of the baby.
Such an action takes place in a relaxed atmosphere without anxious awakening. Mothers who have no time for a full-fledged rest, can use such tips during night feeding:
- During awakening at night, the bright light should be included in the room. The gentlemen room will allow the child to fall asleep immediately after feeding.
- With the awakening of the child, you should not get up with irritation and express discontent, this will disturb the dream of a baby, and he will not calm down for a long time. With incorrect awakening, it will take a long time to calm and infant baby.
- During the night feeding period, a woman must wear a comfortable shirt, which contributes to immediate feeding and calming the child.
Night feeding mixture
Even on feeding the children's mixture, the child still needs feeding at night. So that the process does not occupy a lot of time, the woman should take care of it from the evening. To do this, it is necessary to dissolve the correct proportions of the dry powder, pour it into a bottle with a nipple.
When the baby ask to eat, it is possible to warm this bottle in a special heater and give a baby. Thanks to the special device, the night feeding mixture does not cause big trouble, and the woman can go to bed further.
You can also feed the child in the evening an hour before sleep. Such an action adapts the child to the power regimen from the evening and will gradually understand from night feedings. Children at the age of 3 months may not wake up at night to eat, and calmly sleep until the morning.
Feeding a child at night after a year
If a woman quietly gets up at night to attach a child to his chest, then it can do it after a year old. If a woman has feeding in the night, she needs to teach a child from night awakening and feeding.
Until the year, pediatricians recommend lures at night, and after a year this action is not necessary. After a year, the baby can be gradually offering another food in the form of porridge and broths.
In the feeding period, a woman should keep the child in a comfortable position, so that after food he did not feel pain and bloating, because of which there is a possibility of awakening and anxiety.
The best way to feed the kid is to hold it at an angle of 30 degrees, pre-laying under the head and the back of the blanket. In this position, the child must be after feeding for 20-25 minutes, it contributes to the rapid emptying and clearance of the stomach.
You can wean from the night feeding a child in just two weeks. The main action of the woman is the right excommunication from night feeding, without stress for the children's body.