For various reasons, children need mixed feeding. Then, in the face of this situation, how should milk powder and breast milk be mixed? How to feed your baby in a mixed way? Follow me to learn the method of mixed feeding of baby's breast milk and milk powder
When do breast milk and milk powder need to be mixed?
1. How to match breast milk and milk powder? After the baby grows to a certain stage, breast milk can no longer meet the needs of all aspects of the body. At this time, it is necessary to mix some nutritional supplements other than breast milk to supplement the baby's daily needs.
2. If there is medical evidence that there is little milk for special reasons, breast milk and milk powder should be mixed.
Method for mixed feeding of breast milk and milk powder
The feeding amount of milk powder should be determined according to the sleeping time of the baby after feeding during the day. If you sleep overtime, you should reduce or stop using infant milk powder. The interval of feeding during the day is as follows: in the first week after delivery, feeding is irregular, quantitative and on demand; The second week, 1 many hours; The third week 1.5 hours or more; The fourth side, more than 2.5 hours; In the fifth week, after 3 hours, remind the baby to breastfeed in time. After 22: 00 in the evening, you can breastfeed for more than 3 hours as needed.
To warm and refrigerate milk, you can put the milk container in flowing hot water for a few minutes to let the breast milk reach room temperature, or you can put it in a pot of hot water. It is best not to heat breast milk directly on the stove or in the microwave oven, so as not to get too hot and destroy the nutrients in the milk.
The best method of mixed feeding of breast milk and milk powder
Method 1: feed only one kind of milk at a time, eat breast milk when eating breast milk, and eat milk powder when eating formula milk powder. Don't eat breast milk first, if it's not enough, then mix milk powder. This is not conducive to the baby's digestion, and it is easy for the baby to have an illusion about the pacifier, which leads to anorexia of milk powder and refusal to eat the bottle.
Method 2: Make full use of limited breast milk and feed your baby as much as possible. Breast milk is being sucked more and more. If the mother thinks that breast milk is insufficient, reducing the number of breastfeeding will make breast milk less and less. Breastfeeding time should be evenly spaced, and do not stop breastfeeding for a long time.
Method 3: It is best to breastfeed at night. Mom is very tired at night, especially after midnight. It is very troublesome to get up and feed the baby with milk powder. In addition, when the mother rests at night, the amount of milk secretion is relatively increased, and the baby's demand is relatively reduced. Breast milk may meet the needs of babies. However, if the amount of breast milk is really too small and the baby does not have enough to eat, it will shorten the breastfeeding time and affect the rest of mother and child. At this time, milk powder will be given priority.
Method 4: Don't mix too much milk powder every time, and try not to let the baby eat milk powder that has been put on hold for too long; The temperature of milk powder after mixing is similar to that of human body, generally around 36 degrees Celsius.
Key points of mixed feeding of infants
When breast milk is insufficient, it is necessary to add milk or other dairy products for mixed feeding. Although mixed feeding is not as good as breastfeeding, it is much better than completely artificial feeding.
When mixed feeding, breast-feed first, and then add other dairy products to the baby after sucking the breast empty. The amount of milk supplement depends on the baby's appetite and breast milk secretion. The principle is that the baby should be full. You need to observe it for a few days at the beginning of adding complementary food to know the amount of milk added each time and whether the baby has digestive abnormalities. It is best not to have loose bowels or vomit milk.
When feeding formula milk to the baby, it can be boiled for 3-5 minutes with low fire, which can disinfect and sterilize on the one hand, and denature protein in the formula milk on the other hand, which is convenient for the baby to digest and absorb.