Breastfeeding is a natural expression of the mother's love and care for her child, a manifestation of the maternal instinct. However, the process of breastfeeding the baby, despite all the simplicity, generates a lot of questions even for experienced moms.
How to feed a child expressed milk?
Ideally, in the first months of life, the baby should receive food only from his mother's breast. However, there are cases when you have to use breast milk from a bottle:
- Mom needs to be away for a while;
- mum is sick and temporarily stopped breastfeeding, and the baby is fed with stored breast milk;
- Mom temporarily can not breast-feed (for example, because of cracks in the nipples);
- flat or retracted nipples prevent natural feeding;
- the baby can not suck the breast (was born prematurely or with defects in the lips and palate).
There are several rules for feeding expressed milk :
- Breast milk is quickly absorbed, so you need to feed your baby with expressed milk more often than with a mixture.
- In the first six months of a child's life, feed him at night.
- If the baby has refused the breast itself, apply it daily to the breast during feeding from the bottle.
- Remember that in the first 6 months, breast milk for a child is both food and drink.
- Try to keep the lactation for at least a year.
Why do you need to express milk after feeding?
Our mothers did not have such a question: they were fed by the clock, and the remaining milk was decanted to preserve lactation. Today, doctors recognized the failure of this system and recommend feeding the baby on demand. In this case, milk is produced exactly as much as the baby needs. Express milk after feeding is possible only if it is necessary to increase lactation. If, after feeding, the milk remains, but the crumbs are full and satisfied, then milk is produced more than necessary. Expressing in this case is contraindicated, since it can provoke milk stagnation in a nursing mother
Allergies to milk - what to feed the baby?
Allergies to the milk of a nursing mother do not exist in the child. Most likely, the reaction of the baby provoked certain foods that my mother ate. Strong allergens recognize cow's milk protein, gluten (a protein contained in some cereals), fish, chocolate, coffee, honey, nuts, brightly colored fruits and vegetables. Therefore, before you transfer the baby to artificial mixtures, you need to exclude suspicious foods from your diet. In especially severe cases, pediatricians recommend a mixture that is as close to breast milk as possible so that the child does not experience metabolic disorders, allergic reactions, skin and digestive problems. Closer to the composition of human milk, the adapted mixtures on goat milk with a protein of beta casein, for example, the gold standard for baby food - MD mil SP "Kozochka." Thanks to this mixture, the baby gets all the necessary substances that help the child's body to properly form and develop.
Is it possible to overfeed with breast milk?
No, when fed on demand, the baby gets exactly as much milk as he needs. Restricting a child in mother's milk means hindering its development and growth.