Mother Milk is the best food for a newborn. But there are reasons why breast feeding is completely able to establish. A variety of dairy mixes come to the rescue. What is a mixed feeding of a child? How to organize this process to organize the infant and healthy?
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The concept of mixed feeding
What is mixed feeding?
Mixed feeding is a feeding system when mostly mother feeds the baby with breasts, and it recovers with children's nutrition, the volume of which does not exceed 50%.
The conditions under which mixed feeding is recommended:
- when Karapuz was born prematurely;
- when baby is poorly gaining weight;
- when applying the mother of drugs that are incompatible with breastfeeding;
- when making a mother to work.
Mixed feeding of newborns is not bad, but moms should be tuned to the fact that artificial feeding is inevitable.
In general, it should first lead breast feeding to normal. The shortage of the newborn weight is not the main indication for the use of artificial nutrition.
If the baby is capricious, much crying, stretches to the chest, then many moms immediately believe that their child does not eat and need to do. But after all, the causes of crying can be different. For example, accumulation of gases, heat, or, on the contrary, the infant is cold.
If the child needs to change diapers for more than six times per day - the maternal milk is enough.
If less is a reason to contact the pediatrician.
If the mother has little milk, it is necessary to increase the lactation: Karapusa must be easily applied to the chest and day, and at night. Mom itself should be saturated and eat normally - this affects the quality of lactation.
In the event of a mom's release to work, in the morning and in the evening it is necessary to feed the crumb of breast milk, and for feeding in the afternoon it is better to adjust the milk to the bottle.
There are no analogs in breast milk all over the world
Organization of mixed feeding
To eat enough baby, it is necessary to properly organize mixed feeding. For this it is necessary:
- feed baby baby afternoon
- the volume of the mixture should not exceed half the daily diet;
- breastfeed need not less than three times a day
- the mixture is better to register after sucking the maternal milk from both breasts
- i need to feed the karapus at night only breast milk
You need to write with baby food from the spoon, and not from the nipple. Milk through the pacifier is lightering easier than from the chest, so the crumb can refuse the mother's breast.
When feeding, you need to keep the baby in the same way as natural feeding: We need a tactile contact that soothes the newborn and promotes lactation in mother.
Mixed feeding feed
Selection of dose for feeding
First of all, it is necessary to decide on the daily rate of milk:
- for crumbs aged 1-10 days, it is determined by the formula: 2% of the weight of the child (in grams) multiply on the number of days
- for kids up to 2 months, the norm is equal to 1/5 of its weight
- for children from 2 to 6 months The rate is 1/7 their weight, and from 6 to 12 months - on 1/8.
Received daily rate need to divide by number of feedings And calculate what kind of milk the child gets from the mother's chest and how much it lacks. This delive numbers Number pottors And the amount of baby food required for one discomfort is obtained.
It should be noted that in any case, a pediatric consultation is needed, which should recommend the appropriate age for a specific age (taking into account the individual features of crumbs) baby food for recovery.