If the child does not eat, he's gaining weight badly and becomes restless. Photo: Getty

How to understand that an infant does not eat up

To find out if the baby is getting enough nutrition, you need to pay attention to his behavior and the contents of his diaper. If the baby is not getting enough food, then the following is observed:

• decrease in its weight;
• small amount of urination;
• feces and urine of dark color;
• presence of a large amount of milk in the mother's breast, that is, after breastfeeding the breast is not emptied and remains elastic;
• capricious behavior of the baby, especially during the period of feeding - during sucking, he often breaks off and is dissatisfied with something.

There are 2 main things to consider when breastfeedingindicators that allow you to objectively assess whether your baby needs additional nutrition. These include weight gain and the number of urinations. In a month, a child can gain up to 1500 g. The lower limit of weight gain per month is 500 g. The frequency of urination for babies up to 6 months is 20-25 times, for children from six months to a year - 15-16 times. The older the child becomes, the fewer urinations per day.

How to increase lactation, if the child does not eat

If it was definitely established that the babyinsufficient breast milk due to low lactation in the mother, this situation needs to be corrected. And here doctors recommend introducing supplementary feeding in the form of artificial mixtures. But this option leads to the fact that milk production is further reduced. Therefore, if the child does not lose weight and urinates within the normal range, only showing anxiety during and after feedings, it is worth trying to increase milk production. To do this, you need to do the following:

Increase the frequency of attachments to the chest. Do this in the daytime and at night.

Exclude the use of pacifiers, because sucking them is much easier than breast.

Express milk after feeding. This is especially true in the first months of the baby's life, since he does not have time to suck out all the milk that forms.

Mom to increase the amount of fluid used. In addition to water, you should drink herbal teas that have a lactogenic property.

Perform every day breast massage, whichwell relaxing. The palms should be lubricated with castor oil, the left one should be placed under the breast, and the right one - on it. Perform simultaneously with both palms light massage movements clockwise, without compressing. Perform massage should be 3-5 minutes.

If the baby is constantly crying, he begins to loseweight, then he does not have enough food. In this case, it is better to feed him with artificial mixtures during the day. At night, breastfeeding is preferable - it is more convenient and allows milk to be produced in large quantities. Read also:

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