Your baby is due to circumstances on artificial feeding? You do not know how to feed, what mixture and gadgets for her to pick up and when to complete an artificial lure? We will tell!
In the first year of his life the power of the child is the first and most important foundation of his health. Without exaggeration - the foundation of the development of the baby. A huge number of technical innovations makes it easier for young parents to care for the crumbs, saves time and effort to care for the baby's health.
Which to choose a bottle
Selection of modern feeding bottles is huge, it does not get lost in the portfolio? When buying in the first place, pay attention to: material, shape, and protection against colic.
On sale is a bottle:
- from glass,
- plasty
- silicone.
Glass bottles are well more thermostable - a mixture of them heated longer and longer keeps the temperature. However, a bottle made of glass is easily broken, it is heavier than plastic or silicone.
Feeding bottles are standard, with a wide neck and curved. Classical bottle - narrow and elongated, it is very easy to overturn. Bottle with a wide neck more stable, easier to fill the mixture easier to wash. For figural bottle - a rounded, oblong, with a hole in the middle - to look harder, moreover, it is more suitable for older kids who can hold her own.
Vials made of plastic and silicone practical, unbreakable, withstand high temperature, but may be colored under the action of members of the food components. Bottle of this type of light: the baby will eventually just keep it on their own pens. You will be convenient to take with you to the clinic, a walk, a trip with a toddler this modern dishes.
Artificial mixture: how to choose the best age at which to stop giving / istockphoto.com
How to choose the nipple
Nipples are available in latex and silicone. Better to choose silicone - they are strong, durable, easy to care for them.
When choosing the nipple is important to choose the right size and number of holes. The flow rate should correspond to the age of crumbs: nipple holes is regulated magnitude or quantity. Typically, newborns are nipples with one hole, two holes with nipples (slow flow) recommended kiddies two to three months, with three holes (average flow) - after three months. Also produce the so-called antikolikovye nipples.
Pay attention to the shape of the nipple - antivakuumnye "skirt" to protect against ingress of air when feeding. Nipple bottle with a wide neck in the form closest to the female breast - a wide base and a small nipple.
How to choose a mixture of
1. Choosing infant formula, read what is written on the packaging (with the advent of a child is a good habit). Pay attention to the amount of protein, as well as the ratio of casein and whey protein in a mixture. These figures should be as close to the composition of breast milk (0.9-1.2 g protein per 100 ml, of which 70-80% must be whey and 20-30% casein).
2. Get as much information about infant formula that the manufacturer you want to entrust the most precious thing - the health of your child. Trust concerns with a good, long-term history. Please note that any violation of technology can backfire to hurt the child. So choose not only the brand, but also the country in which this brand has placed its production. It is very important!
3. Only on the advice of a pediatrician! The most important criterion for choosing an infant formula is the age of the child and especially his health. In no case do not hurry time - do not buy baby milk mixture ahead of his age on the grounds that "he's a krupnenkim born." The enzyme system of the baby - a very thin, very delicate instrument, which should be treated according to the rules.
4. If a baby has observed eating habits (an allergy to one or another product with the introduction of complementary foods in addition to the artificial mixture) doctor will advise to choose a special blend that helps to cope with problem. For instance, for children suffering from colic or regurgitation abundant in admixture added thickeners or plant origin dietary fibers that promote the absorption of the mixture, the development of a healthy intestinal flora, protect the little tummy from appearing colic.
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When wean from the mixture
This is a rather individual process, you can save an artificial lure to 2 years, with the main lure type in 5 months starting with vegetables or cereals, then gradually add fruits and milk products under the scheme babies breastfed, but for a month earlier.
Then, after 1.5-2 years, day and night before going to sleep, if the crumb does not fall asleep without a bottle, go to adapted cow's or goat's milk baby. His baby can drink already from a feeder cup or cup-pot. So you will not worry that will not go bad bite, before the baby starts to speak and will develop fully.
Also you will be interested to read this: the basic rules of artificial feeding.
