Child Care: Feeding Your Baby
A bottle fed baby needs each day, two and a half ounces of milk mixture for every pound of its own weight. In practice, it May be a little more than that. The appetite of your baby May serve as an indicator of the quantity of milk he needs. Breast-fed babies simply have more food than it needs and the offers to settle himself. Its weight will be to see how it is booming. The average gain over the first three months is six to eight ounces per week, three to six months, it should have four to six ounces per week and six to twelve months, three to four ounces per week. If he is gaining weight regularly, was happy at the end of a food, sleeping well and has normal motions, you have nothing to fear. If it is underdeveloped, it will fail to gain weight, he cries in May between feedings are frequent and small, constipated motions. The normal baby breastfeeding motions resemble the sweet mustard. At first, they occur after May every feed, but in a month, they become less frequent, perhaps only once or twice a week. This is because breast milk is easily assimilated that there is very little waste. A bottle-fed baby has paler, more formed motions, which typically occur every day or twice a day.
Some babies do well on a rigid schedule, but babies are not machines and it seems reasonable to aim for a four hour period. You can change your program to meet the needs of babies and yours. That is, if he wakes up early and hungry, feed him. In fact, if breastfeeding is the best way to increase milk supply. On the other hand, if he sleeps past his feeding time, you do not need to wake up. Of course, it should not be fed whenever he cries. Soon you will come to recognize the cry of hunger, once it settles, it will probably occur every three or four hours. It seems unnecessary to let him scream when he is hungry - it does not swallow air and be unable to take food properly when it comes. The same applies to the night feeds. A baby does not distinguish night from day. He knows he is hungry. When he could take enough to satisfy him, he will sleep all night. In the meantime, you can not spoil him by giving him his food. It gives him the security to know that it will be fed when hungry.
Round about four months, the baby will be ready for his first taste of foods other than milk. These should be introduced gradually to food during the day and several days to allow the baby to become familiar with a new flavor before giving him another.
Weaning can be at any time. At five to six months, the baby will learn to drink rather than suck and can be weaned to a cup right. You can use Boiled fresh milk, milk powder or evaporated milk. If you replace a nurse one week, the milk production decreases automatically with fewer requests in this regard. If the breasts become too at any time, you can express yourself or to give a little early the next feeding.
In six months, the baby will be ready for a greater variety of food and experiment with chewing. By seven to eight months, it may get three meals a day and its first anniversary, it will be a member of the family at meal times and try to feed themselves.
