Does the water need a newborn to quench thirst? This question worries even those mammies who already have kids. After all, if some more than 10 years ago, pediatricians were categorically against the water for infants, today many doctors advocate the use of water with newborns. And since the opinion of the doctors was divided, then moms do not know how they do it right.
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Water for breasts
I immediately want to say that water for newborns is absolutely not needed in the first month. In maternal milk, which consists of 80% of the water, there is already all the liquid that the baby is needed. The newborn is born with a sterile intestine and the first months it is sown with useful bacteria for good microflora. In addition to unnecessary bacteria (from water) can lead to violations, which will subsequently fall out frequent diseases and intestinal disorders.
Only after the first month of Mom, at her wish, can give the baby water (if he sees that the child needs fluid). But the reception of water should pass correctly in order not to break the health of a small organism.
Symptoms indicating that the baby lacks fluid:
- Dry sponges and mucous membranes of mouth.
- Kid apathetic and sluggish.
- Possible springs Spring is greater than the norm.
- The child pisses less than 6 times a day.
- Urine gives a sharp smell, as well as can change color.
All of the above features may indicate the dehydration of the children's body, and the child's harness becomes necessary. But there are other circumstances in which water for newborns will also be important.
- To avoid dehydration of the children's body, the water of the newborn gives in the hot season or during the overwhelmed air in winter, when radiators work.
- A bunny child, especially if he has a temperature, it can roll out a chest, but the body is simply necessary for the body.
- Dehydration of the body in children can provoke diarrhea, and therefore water in this case will very much help bring the body in order.
- Many argue that the driver for newborns helps to get rid of the jaundice, but in this case the opinion of the doctors was divided, so the mother would have to solve the most.
Some mommies on the advice of acquaintances begin to replace the night feeding of the breast on the catch of the baby by the driver, allegedly so the baby will get used to sleep at night without food. First of all, I would like to warn that such a replacement of maternal milk on water can lead to a decrease in milk generation by milk iron. As a result, the child can remain at all on artificial feeding.
Rules of watering of newborn water
If the baby is for more than a month and mom has noticed that the child wants the driver, then he should not refuse him. The main thing is to correct the kid.
- The driver for newborns in no case should be boiled, in which all microorganisms died, but it is impossible to give crude water. Before giving a child water from the crane, it should be filtered. The best option will be specially purchased children's water.
- It is not necessary to give a child water before feeding, since the rate of drinking milk will decrease, and with it and the norm of the obtained microorganisms and beneficial substances.
- The temperature of the water for the baby should be 22-25 degrees.
- The daily rate of the drilled liquid is no more than 60 g. A large amount is possible only with the dehydration of the body or in case of illness. For one reception, no more than 20 g is given so as not to overflow the kid's ventricle.
- Water newborn with gases is categorically contraindicated. At kids to a year, such water provokes irritation of another weak intestine, and the result of such a drink can become a deplorable.
To the question, whether water is needed for newborns, you can discuss for a long time, and each side will lead many arguments of its own right. But the decision remains for parents who know better and feel the needs of their child.