The kid is worried at the breast or does not want to take it? Of course, parents worry that pipsqueak malnourished. Sometimes these fears are justified, but often exaggerated. Let us understand how to be a woman in labor
The main thing now - to monitor whether enough crumbs milk. On the day give up diapers and count the number of wet diapers. They are more than 12 on the 2nd week of life? Then everything is fine! Weigh crumbs: after the first week he had lost up to 10% by weight, with the 2nd week it should add 17-20 grams or more per day.
Do not breastfeed immediately after birth
It is best to put you crumbs on his stomach and gave a chance to crawl and cling to the chest. Most children begin to suck in about an hour after birth, as they need time to recover.
What to do? Give your child get used to not bother him. Gradually feeding schedules will be adjusted. The main thing is that now you and your child need - peace and tranquility. Do not be fooled that you feed colostrum crumbs of droplets: it is very nutritious!
If the breast is petrified
On day 3-7 after birth comes the milk: breast often swells, becomes edematous, and if the areola is too hard, hard crumbs cling to the chest. Its jaws may slip off her like a smooth watermelon.
What to do? It helps gentle manual pumping: fingertips surround the nipple and gently press down on the areola towards the chest for 1-3 minutes. Breast becomes softer, and your child will be much easier to take it and suck.
A newborn baby is not breastfeeding: Top 7 Reasons and solutions / istockphoto.com
Short frenulum, thrush, tone, torticollis
Your baby was born full-term, but in the first 1-2 days after birth you can not even make it to his chest? Either he tries to cling, and after a few seconds, starts to cry? The first thing you need to delete the following reasons: a short frenulum under the tongue, thrush in the mouth, as well as neurological complications (torticollis, hypo- or hypertonicity, birth trauma) and otitis media.
What to do? Check the correctness of applying a neonatologist and tell us about the difficulties with feeding, ask him to more carefully examine the baby. At crumbs kkrivosheya? In this case, the effectiveness of aid osteopath.
A newborn baby is not breastfeeding: Top 7 Reasons and solutions / istockphoto.com
Flat or inverted nipples
Usually the child is not confused by the shape of the nipple, but only under two conditions: he was not given a bottle, pacifier and mother properly apply it to his chest. After substitutes hard to take the breast.
What to do? Immediately after birth it is important that skin to skin contact with the baby and keep repeating it, to help the baby find the breast. Before feeding to pull the nipple with your fingers or a syringe without a needle. also helps
- breastfeeding in poses "at hand"
- "Cross-cradle"
- You can sometimes put the child on the table and lean over him, so that the breast fell into his mouth.
Using the pads on the nipples, usually not very effective. Inverted nipples pose problems not always. Infants grab the chest, not the nipple. So all you get! Some difficulties may arise in women with long or big nipples because the baby can not take them deep into her mouth. If because of the large nipple at the baby periodically arise retching, express milk and feed the baby by cup. Newborns grow very quickly: the mouth crumbs getting more grip - better.
Feeding on the regime
Scarce had just been born. Chest is not only a source of food for him. It helps sleep, to calm down, and then wake up. Sucking better depart GAZ cars and defecate crumbs. The stomach has a small, so it needs frequent suckling (in the first month, most children typically up to 12 or more by applying a day). During the day children suck uneven: some feeding they need just to quench their thirst or calm down, and they suck only 10 ml, and another time they decide to thoroughly "refuel" and can 100 ml of suck.
What to do? Interfere with this natural process is not necessary. It is better to offer the breast at the first request. Scarce busy, makes sounds, sticks out his tongue, smacked his lips, trying to cling to your hand? So, it's time to make it to his chest.
A newborn baby is not breastfeeding: Top 7 Reasons and solutions / istockphoto.com
A child is born prematurely
Premature babies can take the breast as early as 28 weeks of gestational age (as a rule, it is more of pregnancy two weeks), and start to suck the milk - to 30 weeks. Difficult for them to hold the breast in his mouth, so they suck for a long time - up to 1 hour, taking breaks for a few minutes. Some children weakened early days of merely keeping the breast in his mouth, then begin to lick it, and a week later are already trying to suck.
What to do? Just be patient. Need to lie down with the kid, and frequently offer him the breast (every half hour). As necessary to finish feeding crumbs expressed milk. By 34-36 weeks, many kids are already suck from the breast they need milk.
After sucking bottle forgot technique
This is one of the most common causes of failure of the chest. Some children are enough 1-2 feedings from a bottle to their technique of sucking the breast deteriorated. The fact is that in breast and bottle-sucking work different muscle groups. Kid remembers his movements under any milk poured in her mouth and trying to just suck and chest. Milk is slow, anxious child, little gains weight, or refuses to accept and suckle.
What to do? The best thing - to eliminate all alternatives chest, including the bottle and, if necessary, to finish feeding crumbs expressed milk. Take it from a syringe without a needle, from the cup, with a spoon, using a supplemental nursing system of special probes. For fast results you can practice special massage and facial language crumbs.
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