How to bottle-feed
You have the latest bottle with a nipple 5 speed? We now know the make. What is the ideal position? How to calculate rations?
The ideal position to ration adapted recipe an update to give the bottle well.
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Hold the child’s head in the crook of your elbow, in semi-sitting position.
Position the baby face, stroking his face gently. For he opens his mouth, stroking him of lips with the nipple and insert it gently over the tongue.
Tilt the bottle enough so that there is no air in the teat. The presence of bubbles rising to the surface in the bottle proves that the nipple is pierced and enough milk that flows well. Occasionally remove the nipple of the baby’s mouth so that he sucks does not create a vacuum that would prevent her from sucking the milk. Before you give it to him, check the patency of the teat orifice whose mouth easily. The more or less tight position of the ring which holds the teat adjusts the flow rate according to the energy of the suction and the size of the orifice of the teat. A feeding usually lasts 10 to 20 minutes.
After feeding, keep baby upright or lying face down on your knees until eructation (“rot” or return air) that occurs rapidly after 10 or 20 minutes. Sometimes a burp is necessary in the middle of the bottle. After rot, lay the child on the right side.
It is strictly recommended to install a baby so he can drink a bottle alone willing to reach.
How to calculate rations?
Rations are theoretical. From a child to another and from one day to another for the same child, actual rations consumed are variables. During the first six to eight weeks, the child is often stabilized with 6 bottles per day, or one bottle every 3 hours, possibly with a bottle of extra night. The latter can be removed between 8 and 12 weeks. It is cruel and absurd to let a baby cry from hunger at night. If it is not calmed by water is that it is hungry, not thirsty.
In your uterus, baby was fed continuously. The removal of night meal depends on the installation cycle “day-night” in your child. This biological clock is dependent on hormones and you or your pediatrician can not change it. Some mothers enrich the last bottle of the evening with a meal diastasee age 1, hoping to “fix” the stomach of the infant. This method can be attempted but rarely gives the desired results. Delaying the last bottle of the evening is also a method often attempted by desperate parents who no longer know where to turn for the haywire internal clock of the baby. Unfortunately, experience shows that this technique also fails most of the time.
Calculate the ration
Ration theory can be calculated from the following formula: the first three digits of the weight in grams + 250 = amount of milk per 24 hours divided by the number of bottles.
Example calculation:
Baby’s weight = 5 g 00 0
500 + 250 = 750
Ration: 750/5 = 5 bottles of 150 g
Each infant with its rhythm, intervals between meals may be unequal and the quantities taken at each feeding variables. The spontaneous awakening is the best indicator of the timing of meals. It should nevertheless leave 2:30 to 3:00 between two bottles. Never force your baby to finish a bottle and did not wake up to eat if asleep. Take the extra milk if the baby does not finish her bottle.
Flexible hours …
Schedules bottles vary in different situations. An example of changing hours of feeding by age:
Between 0 and 2 months:
6 meals / day or one meal every three hours:
6-9-12-15-18-21 h.
Between 2 and 4 months:
5 meals / day or a meal every 4 hours:
6-10-14-18-22 h.
From 4 months:
4 meals / day is: 7-12-16-20 h.