Mother Milk is the best and useful meals for a newborn baby. Breast milk is a guarantee of good health, the full development of the baby, the psychological comfort of the mother and the child, their mutual understanding from the moment of his birth. But in life there are such situations where the mother due to certain reasons is forced to switch to artificial feeding the newborn.
The child is in full or partial replacement of breast milk on artificial milk mixtures. The kid artificial should eat 6-7 times a day, with interruptions after 3-3.5 hours.
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Choosing milk mixtures for artificial nutrition
Artificial feeding of children under the year is carried out by dairy baby food, as well as substitutes of breast milk - fermented milk and fresh. The mixtures are liquid (ready-to-use immediately) and dry. In composition, they are approximate to breast milk, to reduce the risk of allergies. Distinguish the following types of baby food (depending on their degree of adaptation to breast milk):
- adapted: They are most closely close to maternal milk, contain serum proteins, calcium and phosphorus, taurine, nucleotides;
- partially adapted: such a power is made on the basis of cow's milk. It is more satisfying and can be given to kids who often jar. They are better feeding children from two to three months.
Before the acquisition of baby food, a mandatory consultation of a pediatrician observer doctor is needed. Artificial feeding of a newborn is better to start with fresh mixtures-in-saline meals can enhance tightening. And after it can be combined in equal shares of fresh and sour milk mixtures.
New baby food is introduced when IV is gradually entered. If you feel good, the mixture should not be changed.
Calculation of the required amount of milk mixture
In the first days after birth, it is necessary to correctly calculate the dosage of the mixture. So, up to 10 days ago, the portion is considered as follows: you need to multiply the child's age in days by 70, if its weight is less than 3.2 kg, and 80 - if the kid weighs more than 3.2 kg.
In the future, the amount of nutrition per day depends on age and amounts to (from body weight):
- 1/5 in the age of 10 days to 2 months;
- 1/6 - from 2 to 4 months;
- 1/7 - from 4 to 6 months;
- 1 / 8-1 / 9 - from 6 to 12 months.
The resulting volume is divided into the amount of feeding and receive a one-time quantity.
Highlights of artificial feeding of children up to the year
During the feeding of a newborn (up to one year), specific rules should be followed:
- Comply with cleanliness.
- Power supply to a clear dry dimensional spoon, to dissolve only boiled water.
- The mixture is prepared only for one feeding.
- Prepare a mixture in the amount recommended by the doctor.
- Power before feeding is heated to 37-40 C.
- Milk should leave the bottle not with a trickle, but drops.
- The neck of the bottle should be filled with milk, otherwise the kid will simultaneize the mixture along with the air, which leads to joining.
- In case of artificial feeding, the child should not be one with a bottle. When jeeping, he may choke with milk.
- It is impossible to feed the child when he sleeps.
Of course, an artificial feeding of a child is not able to replace the maternal milk. But when receiving a full-fledged, relevant age, carefully cooked food, with good care and attention, maternal love and caressing, the child can grow strong and healthy.