Posts Tagged ‘growth’
Parenting Child Care – Plan Your Breast Feeding
All Night Child Care
Introduction:
Breast feeding is an critical requirement for the child’s improvement after delivery. The planned breast feeding includes the time between the first approaches of the child to the nipples till the weaning period of breast milk. Usually, breast feeding that is well planned is very leading for both the baby and the mother’s health.
All Night Child Care
The baby in the initial stages of improvement is completely dependent on the mother’s milk for its nutrition. This stage is very crucial for the allowable improvement of all the systems in the child’s body. To accomplish this, the mum has to stay healthy. Bad food habits of the mum have direct corollary on the health of the infant. The lifestyle and the environment of the mum are very crucial to produce salutary milk. A bad or polluted environment will cause the mum to produce unhealthy milk causing damage to the child’s health.
Wrong Diets of the Mother:
The mum who is feeding should eat salutary and stay healthy. The mum should have very nutritious food. Spicy food, Wine and other alcoholic drinks should be strictly forbidden. Having such alcohol or spice will cause the mum to produce less nutritious milk affecting the digestive system of baby very severely.
Thus the correct feeding plan includes clear mental and having a balanced, nutritious and timely diet by the mother. It will greatly help in producing milk of good quality and quantity.
Breast Feeding Plan for six months:
The hormones in the mum make her produce milk only after two or three days of delivery. Till then the child has to be supplied with light barley water or lightly sweetened diluted milk. The child should not be kept starving. As the breast milk starts coming, it have to be fed to the child at short but planned frequency.
The breast milk should not be supplemented with any other food. Similarly there should be no other replacement for breast milk initially. Breast milk has antibodies that are the only protecting force ready for the child against assorted diseases present in the environment. The nutritive value of breast milk is also high and balanced as per the requirement of the child. Breast milk has vitamins that are essentially required for allowable improvement of the body of the infant. Amino acids present in the breast milk help the child derive proteins in the body, for development.
The timing of feeding the baby is very crucial. The mum is the ideal someone to know when to feed as she will be able to judge from the child’s cry.
Digestive Capacity of the Infant:
The digestive system of the baby is very sensitive and fragile. The child will not be in a position to dispell a collection food. The child at this point of time can dispell only breast milk and nothing else. The stomach capacity of the baby being small gets filled easily. The process of digestion starts immediately. Care should be taken the child is not overfed.
The requirement for the baby is feeding at an interval of three to four hours. This gap is critical for the perfect digestion of the old milk. Such regulated and scheduled feeding process will also help to avow a good bowel movement for the child. This practice will also sacrifice the child’s cry for milk.
Understanding the Child’s Cry:
The mum may have difficulties in interpreting the reckon of the child’s cry. Many commit a mistake of feeding the child every time the baby cries. This is a very bad practice, as the child will be overfed. In overfeeding, there is the opportunity for some indigestion of the old milk in the stomach causes irritation to the child. It will also lead to bowel disturbances. Thus maintaining allowable feeding intervals and understanding the child’s cry is very leading to the child’s health.
Guidelines for feeding:
As mentioned above the mum initially has to feed the child at an interval of 3 – 4 hours. Feeding while the nights has to be avoided. The regular timing of feeding should be maintained such that the last feeding is at 10pm and the 1st feeding is at 5am. There should be no feeding in the middle of the night.
When the mum happens to produce milk after the 6th month, feeding should be done only twice a day. In the mean time supplementary baby food formulations accessible in the market shall be given appropriately.
Obstructive Milk Flow:
It is very tasteless for young women to feel obstruction in the flow of milk due to cracked nipples. In such a case allowable medical concentration should be given immediately without breaking the feeding cycle. Accumulation of breast milk will cause the milk becoming stale which is very harmful for both the mum and the child.
Harmful corollary of Alcohol:
In a case study, a mum who was in the habit having 2 or 3 servings of wine and occasional beer continued the practice even after delivery. But surprisingly the child and the mum remained salutary and the milk was produced till the ninth month.
It was then later noticed that the child started to make a craving for the milk (addiction) and both the mum and the child had tiredness throughout the day, with inadequate sleep at night leads to a feeling restlessness, frequent headaches, negligent behavior, increased thirst, irritation and dry skin. Always the doctor recommends avoiding the consumption of alcohol, while the feeding months.
Parenting Child Care – Plan Your Breast Feeding

