It is recommended that lactating mothers eat more light and digestible foods, try to eat less foods with high fat, and eat as little as possible when feeding their babies to promote gastrointestinal absorption. In addition, they can also give the baby some abdominal massage to help digestion. What should the breast-fed baby do if its weight grows slowly?
20 18-0 1-05
Deputy Chief Physician Guo Hongzhi
Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation, Changzhi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Shanxi Province
Babies generally grow and develop rapidly, especially breast-fed babies can get enough milk from their mothers and should grow faster. However, some babies gain weight slowly. So what about the slow weight gain of breast-fed babies?
The most common reason for slow weight gain is improper breastfeeding methods, and babies don't get enough milk. Among them, the common phenomena are:
1. Feeding frequency is not frequent enough.
Some mothers are told that breastfeeding every three or four hours is enough; There are also some mothers who mistakenly think that babies should breastfeed on time and artificially set the time for their babies to breastfeed; However, very few babies are naturally quiet and sleepy, and they are not very active in breastfeeding. Newborns need to breastfeed 10 ~ 12 times every 24 hours on average. Some babies don't need to eat so often, while others need to breastfeed more often to grow up. If the baby breast-feeds less than 10 times a day and the weight gain is slow, the mother should take measures to increase the number of breast-feeding to increase the baby's intake of nutrients and increase milk secretion.