If you are a parent or a new test, you may have questions about your nutritional rapidly changing and growing infants. Here's what you need to know.
Stick with breast milk or formula
In most cases, breast milk is the ideal food for babies. Breastfeeding provides physical and emotional benefits for mothers and newborns, and most experts recommend exclusive breastfeeding for at least the first six months life.Whether you feed your newborn breast milk or formula, not to provide water, juice or other liquids. In presenting these fluids too soon can cause diarrhea.
Other key points to keep in mind:
* Feed your baby on demand. Most newborns breast-feed eight to 12 times a day - about every two to three hours. In two to three months, your child may be satisfied with six to eight meals a day. Eventually, your child will get a fairly predictable feeding schedule, taking more milk, less time for each feeding. If you feed your baby formula, you need to feed a little less, because the formula digests more slowly than breast milk does.
* Discuss vitamin D. If you are totally or partially breast-feeding your baby milk, talk to your doctor about vitamin D for your baby. Breast milk can not provide enough vitamin D, which is needed to help your child absorb calcium and phosphorus - necessary for strong bones. Too little vitamin D can cause rickets, softening and weakening of bones.
* Follow your child's feeding tips. Look at the first signs of famine, such as the revitalization and expansion, sucking motions and lip movements. Fussing and crying and then tips. The sooner you begin each feeding, the less likely you'll need to remove a frantic child. Of course, not every cry means hunger. Sometimes your child may just need a clean diaper, a change of scenery or cuddle time.
* Know where your child completely. When the babies stopped sucking, shut your mouth and turn away from the nipple, they may be full - or just break. Try burping your baby, or waiting hours to offer your breast or the bottle again. If your child is ready by the end of feeding, he or she will be more actively resist. In general, breast feeding should not be less than 10 minutes - and usually not more than 20 minutes - on his chest.
* Expect your child's food fluctuations models. Your child does not always have the same number every day. During growth spurts - often at 10 to 14 days after birth, as well as three weeks, six weeks, three months and six months - your baby may take longer for each feeding, or want to feed more frequently. A few days later, the structure should become more predictable. When your child starts to decrease middle of the night feeding, he or she may wish morning "catch-up" feeding.
* Trust your instincts - and your child. Parents often worry that their newborn is not eating enough. But kids tend to know how much they need. Do not focus on how much, how often and regularly, as your child eats. Instead, find satisfaction between meals, vigilance, and good skin tone and a steady increase in weight - about 4 to 7 ounces a week during the first month.
* Know the signs of underfeeding. If a newborn is not gaining weight, wets fewer than six to eight diapers a day, or do not have regular bowel movements, drowsiness, as ever, and shows little interest in the diet, he or she can not get enough to eat. If you notice any of these signs or have problems, call your baby's doctor.
* Regularly well-child checkups. Your baby's doctor will likely want to weigh your newborn and to discuss the power of 48 to 72 hours after you and your child to leave the hospital. Do not forget to save this and other follow-up appointments so that you and your doctor can monitor the progress the child.
* Look at each feeding time to communicate with your child. For babies, feeding as much as a social activity of a single power supply. Your child growth and development based, inter alia, that the strong bonds form during feeding. Hold your baby close during each feeding. Look into his eyes. Speak with a gentle voice. If you use a bottle, resist the temptation to maintain it in your child's mouth, and you another. This can lead to suffocation or caries - and missed the opportunity to build your child's sense of security, confidence and comfort.