infant overfeeding

Infant Overfeeding and Underfeeding
It is important to nurse your baby and give him the required nutrients he needs in his early life, however, overfeeding can be bad to your infant as well as underfeeding.

Signs of infant overfeeding:

• The baby vomits after feeds. Crying due to flatulance and gases.
• Diarrhea.
• The baby gains weight.
• Sweating.
• Polyurea (large volume of urine).

This is cause by too frequent feeding, irregular feeding and nursing for prolonged periods of time. You should follow a schedule in nursing your baby and limit the nursing time to not more than 20 minutes. This can also occur with formula milk if given with excessive amounts.

Infant underfeedimg :
Normally, most infants go to sleep after feeding, but if the baby is under-fed he doesn't go to sleep. ~Some of the other signs are:

• The baby is crying before and after feeds because he is not satisfied yet.
• constipation.
• Suckling his fingers.
• Failure of the baby to gain weight or loss of weight.
• The baby is passing less amounts of urine than normal.

Underfeeding can occur in some conditions in the mother or the baby and in artificial feeding if scanty or too diluted.

What is colostrum: benefits of colostrum

What is colostrum?
Colostrum is the milk produced during the first 2-4 days after delivering a baby and it is the first stage of milk production. The secretion of colostrum may start a few days before delivery. After colostrum, a type of milk that is half way between colostrum and mature milk is secreted before mature milk, this is called "transitional milk".

There are many benefits of colostrum even with its little amount (less than mature milk) as it contains the suitable nutritional substances that the baby needs during this stage.

Colostrum contains lymphocytes and leukocytes (white blood cells of the immune system) as well as fat, proteins, carbohydrates and minerals all in the optimal proportions and concentrations for the newborn to digest with ease.

Apart from being amazingly nutritive and of suitable amount and concentration, colostrum is also rich in antibodies and immune cells. Colostrum secretion also help the involution of the uterus back to its normal shape and place.

It's important to evacuate the breast during the first few days and regularly evacuate it as to prevent milk engorgment. Persistence of colostrum for a long period may indicate scanty milk production and medical help should be sought.

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