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 has enough nutrition, you need to pay attention to his behavior and the contents of the diaper. If the baby does not eat, then it 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.

Breastfeeding has 2 mainan indicator that allows you to objectively assess whether a baby needs extra nutrition. These include weight gain and the number of urination. For a month a child can gain weight up to 1500g. The lower limit of weight gain per month is 500g. 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 less urination per day.

How to increase lactation, if the child does not eat

If it was specified that the babynot enough breast milk due to low lactation in the mother, you need to correct this situation. And here doctors recommend to introduce supplementary foods in the form of artificial mixtures. But this option leads to the fact that the production of milk is further reduced. Therefore, if the child does not lose weight and urinates within the limits of the norm, only by showing concern during and after feeding, it is worth trying to increase the production of milk. To do this, you need to act like this:

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 constantly cries, begins to lose inweight, he does not have enough food. In this case, it is better to feed it with artificial mixtures in the daytime. At night, preferably breastfeeding is more convenient, and allows milk to form in large quantities. Read also:

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