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).
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.
Breastfed babies should not be kept on a schedule or made to only eat for a certain amount of time. when babies are going through a growth spurt they nurse more frequently so that the milk supply will increase. when a baby is sick or sleepy he may nurse for a long period of time because the breast not only provides nutrition but also comfort for the baby.
ReplyDeleteI seriously hope that no one has taken your advice. Babies are different from us, they do not know how to overeat. when they are full, they will stop eating.
As for the spitting up and gas, that is a normal occurance as the babys digestive system matures.
Also, BABIES ARE SUPPOSED TO GAIN WEIGHT. Most babies gain about 12-15 pounds in the first year of life, and considering their size in relation to that amount of weight, they have to put it on quite rapidly. Imagine if you were to triple your body weight in just a year!
Please revise this post as your facts are completely FALSE.
Thank you.
Thanks alot for your comment and concerns.
ReplyDeletePlease don't get this post wrong, I'm not saying that you shouldn't feed your baby as often as needed, Frequency of breastfeeding is another subject that needs to be modified according to each stage of age and nutritional status.
There are types and ways to know how frequently a mother should feed her infant, as I said, each age is different, for example, it is best to feed babies "On Demand" whenever he wants but that won't exceed 30 minutes in most cases. What if a mother wants to calculate and regulate this? the doctor will tell her that a newborn roughly needs to be fed every 2-3 hours, then every 5 hours, then every 6 hours (as he grows more, his suckling and swallowing abilities develope and he can get more milk/feed).
Of course babies are supposed to gain weight but what are the limits? There is a difference between simple (spills/spitting) and overfeeding which can cause diarrhea and colic.
Please read:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000978.htm
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/breastfeeding-questions-frequency
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec23/ch267/ch267d.html
http://www.lpch.org/diseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/newborn/nfantfed.html