The best stroller, the best clothes,diapers, toys. Any mother strives to give her baby the best. And what could be better than breastfeeding? Its benefits cannot be overestimated. Until recently, artificial feeding was very popular, which was justified by a number of objective reasons, the main motive of which was the convenience of the young mother. However, recently breastfeeding has again taken a leading position. But, unfortunately, very often, faced with the first problem, for example, the fact that the newborn baby does not take the breast, the mother gives in and transfers the baby to breast milk substitutes. But in fact, the fact that the baby does not take the breast is not a reason to deprive him of mother's milk. To avoid difficulties and know what to do if suddenly the child stops taking the breast, you need to have as much information as possible about breastfeeding. Sometimes the help of a breastfeeding consultant is very useful. The specialist will find out exactly why the child does not take the breast and offer the most effective solution to the problem. Well, if there is no such specialist in your city, you can seek help from women who have breastfed their own children for a long time and successfully.

Benefits of Mother's Milk

Breastfeeding is the most preferable for a number of reasons:

• The application of a newborn baby to the breast, in the first minutes of life, helps the early birth of the afterbirth and the effective reduction of the uterus.

In the first two to three days, a woman’s mammary glandsproduce colostrum, which is much thicker than breast milk in consistency. Colostrum is very useful for the baby, because it contains a huge number of various maternal antibodies. Colostrum is a kind of "vaccination" against many diseases that can lie in wait for the baby. In addition, pediatricians have noted the fact that children who have received colostrum, as a rule, suffer from dysbacteriosis much less often.

• Feeding the baby allows you to satisfy itneed not only in food, but also in drinking. Of course, this applies only to the children of the first three months of life, after that you can safely give your baby water and juices.
• Breastfeeding helps your mother avoidappearance after the birth of depression. This is due to the fact that during breast feeding hormonal balance in the body is preserved, there is a constant production of hormones of the group of neuropeptides, including endorphins, the so-called "hormones of joy." In addition, the nursing mother has an increased stress resistance, which occurs due to the effects on the female body of hormones such as prolactin and oxytocin.
• Moms who feed their babies with their breasts are much less likely to get sick, since their immunity is due to the fact that intensive metabolism stimulates the strengthening of the immune system.
• From a practical point of view, breastfeedingalso has some advantages. Mom does not need to waste time and energy on boiling bottles, diluting the mixture and controlling its temperature. Wherever you go, food for your crumbs at any second nearby, sterile and the right temperature. In addition, breastfeeding does not require significant material costs. Saved money you can spend on something pleasant or useful.

Composition of human milk

For a baby, the benefits of breast milk are obvious.Not a single expensive and good artificial mixture is able to fully reproduce the composition of breast milk. And this is not surprising, because the composition of mother's milk changes in direct proportion to how the needs of her child change. This adaptation to the needs of the child occurs regularly, the composition of milk changes hourly. However, it is still possible to give a general description of the chemical indicators of female breast milk.

• The composition of milk is more than 450 different microand macronutrients, necessary for the full development of the child. And the highest concentration will be precisely those substances that your kid needs right now.
• In the composition of women's milk, about 97% of water. And it is in it that all the necessary substances are dissolved.
• All the kids eagerly eat mom's milk, and thismerit, to some extent, belongs to milk sugar (lactose), which makes milk very sweet. Therefore, the taste of milk can not be the reason why the child does not want to take the breast. It is lactose, similar to female, and have not learned to reproduce chemically until now. But lactose not only ensures the presence of normal microflora in the intestine, but also participates in the development of the brain of crumbs.
• Protein, despite the fact that its volume of content accounts for only 1%, is responsible for the development of the central nervous system. Female protein is also impossible to reproduce in the laboratory.
• 3% of the percentage falls on fats, which are the main source of energy needed for the development of the child's body.
• The necessary hormones, vitamins, trace elements are produced in the required amount, and their content can vary.

Problems with breastfeeding

At the very beginning of a long journey to successful breastfeedingMany mothers encounter various pitfalls when breastfeeding, for example, even in the maternity hospital, the mother discovers that the baby does not take the breast. And if at this moment there is no sensitive and caring person nearby who will help the mother cope with the problem in time and knows exactly how to accustom the child to the breast, then the baby has a high chance of becoming what is popularly called an "artificial". In relation to breastfeeding, a very old folk wisdom is absolutely true: "no pain, no gain." Almost any problem with breastfeeding can be successfully dealt with if desired. If a woman is determined to breastfeed, the question of how to make the child suckle will be resolved very quickly. One of the most common problems is the situation when the child sucks the breast little. In order to effectively solve it, it is necessary to determine what exactly is happening: The situation when the baby does not suckle the breast well can be caused by one of the following reasons.

• The child does not take the breast well. If the child does not correctly take the breast, the resultant process of sucking becomes impossible, the child can either cover the milk ducts, which will lead to futile attempts to obtain such a desired milk. Or, on the contrary, the child will not be able to control the flow rate of milk, as a result of which he will constantly choke. About how to teach a child to take a breast, will be told a little later.
• Very many mothers are concerned about the question: why does the child throw his chest? Sometimes it happens that the child sucks his breast for 5 minutes and refuses. Ask yourself why the baby does not eat well, there can be several reasons. You put the baby to the chest too often and he just does not have time to get hungry. As a rule, such a situation occurs when feeding by the clock.

Try to scold your baby on demand, and ifand after that the baby turns away from the breast, you need to seek help from either your doctor - pediatrician, or a breastfeeding consultant, who will find out in detail the reasons for what is happening and explain how to make the baby take the breast. Very small babies very often simply fall asleep during feeding. Try to wake up your baby. These tips also apply to the situation when the baby sucks the breast sluggishly.

• Very often, the child restlessly sucksbreast, is caused by his natural interest in everything that is happening around. The child is distracted and forgets about why, in fact, my mother gave him a breast. As a rule, it looks like this: a child spits out his chest and starts looking around, watching things, or flirting with his mother. In this case, the most correct thing is to take the chest from him, and let him "work up an appetite." One of the main mistakes of many mothers is that they allowed the breast to turn into a toy. In the future, this can bring a lot of trouble and can be an explanation of why the baby sucks badly.
• If the behavior of the child at the breast is frankfor example, the child takes a breast and cries, or, in other cases, the child refuses to suckle, even if he is very hungry, seek medical help.

Reasons why when breastfeedingthe baby cries, there may be various diseases, such as stomatitis, popularly called thrush. This disease causes ulcers and sores in the mouth, which cause pain when sucking, so the baby cries when sucking the breast. A short sublingual frenulum also leads to the fact that the baby is capricious at the breast. Congenital diseases, such as "cleft palate" or "hare lip", also lead to the fact that the baby refuses to breastfeed. However, as a rule, these developmental defects are always noticed in the maternity hospital. But even in this case, do not despair and deprive the baby of precious mother's milk. Express milk and feed the baby from a bottle.

• Very often the reason that the baby sucks badlychest, is the introduction of complementary feeding or supplementary artificial mixture. It is much easier to suck liquid from a bottle than from a breast. Often, children understand this very quickly and, as a consequence, the child is lazy to suck breast. If the mother wants to preserve breastfeeding, her actions should be as follows. If the child refuses to breastfeed, do not insist. But do not feed the mixture, and after an hour again offer him a breast. If the baby refuses the breast after this, increase the waiting time by another hour. Stop using dummies and bottles, it's best to pour the baby from a spoon, as using them can cause the baby to take the breast badly.
• If the child is restlessly sucking on the chest, it mayalso says that his tummy hurts. That's why first of all, if you notice that the child is worried about the chest, pay attention to the work of his intestines. Diarrhea, constipation, intestinal colic and other abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract of the crumb should not be left without Mom's attention.
• The child does not take the breast at all. This is a very disturbing sign in the event that previously you have not experienced any problems with feeding, and your baby does not receive any lures. The reasons for the child's refusal to breast can be very diverse. If there are obvious reasons why a child does not want to suckle, you do not see, you should try to feed him in a few hours. Maybe the little one is just not hungry. But if this happens again, to find out why the child does not suck the breast, it is worth letting the pediatrician.

How correctly to put the child to the breast?

So that you don’t break yourself laterhead, why the child refuses to breastfeed, it is necessary to know from the very first days how to teach the child to suckle the breast correctly. This, in the future, will help to avoid a large number of problems associated with the questions "how to make the child take the breast" and "why the child does not take the breast well". Below are the main recommendations of breastfeeding specialists:

• Always, before giving the baby a breast, be surethat his mouth is wide open. If you put a nipple in the child's half-open mouth, the probability is high that the baby will take it wrong: either by clenching his teeth, or not far enough. Widely open mouth, there are cases when the baby does not correctly take the breast.
• Very often there is a sad situation whenMother does not understand her crumbs. When the mother tries to put the baby to the chest, he begins to actively manifest a search reflex, which consists in the child turning the head from side to side. And Mom perceives this absolutely natural behavior only as the child's refusal from the breast. But in fact, the baby is hungry, and this does not mean that the child refuses to take the breast.
• Even in the case when the baby was originallycorrectly took the nipple, in the process of sucking, he can go down to the very tip of it and bite it. This inevitably causes a woman a pain. If this happens, have the baby stop sucking the breast and spit out the nipple. To do this, gently push the baby to the corner of the mouth. And afterwards, give him a breast again.

Despite all the difficulties that await the motheron the path to breastfeeding, the result exceeds the wildest expectations. Strong immunity, harmonious development and a wonderful mood of the child - isn't this the dream of every mother? And it is in your power to make this dream come true. We recommend reading:

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