Baby's stomach capacity is actually very small. You can see the baby's various internal organs in the picture below, of which the stomach is only a small part, like a crescent moon.
Usually, bottle feeding is more likely to lead to overfeeding, because bottle milk is easy and fast, and babies will eat it when they are full, and babies usually need to suck in addition to milk. Therefore, if you are full, it is difficult for your baby to "stop" and slowly meet the sucking needs, so it is easy to eat more.
Breastfeeding may also lead to overfeeding, but the probability is not as high as bottle feeding, because the process of breastfeeding requires the baby to suck hard, and every drop of milk takes a lot of effort to drink. The speed and rhythm of breastfeeding is also controlled by the baby, so don't worry about the baby eating too much.
Breast-feeding often happens because of the baby's sucking demand. In this case, the baby will consume more breast milk than normal, and frequent breastfeeding will easily burden the mother's breast and damage the nipple.
1. Adults take the rooting reflex as a signal that the baby is hungry.
Newborns will have a primitive reflex: rooted reflex, which is an instinct to survive. When we touch the baby's lips with our hands, the baby will open his mouth as if to feed. If we think that the baby is hungry at this time, it is wrong. When the baby is full, we will still open his mouth when we touch it again.
Therefore, don't use this method to judge whether the baby is hungry.
2. Adults ignore the baby's sucking needs.
Babies sometimes need to get a sense of security through sucking, and they also need to exercise their ability to suck actively through continuous sucking. Therefore, sometimes if the baby is found to be slow in breastfeeding, and there is a mouthful of sucking and "sucking" the nipple, it means that the baby is seeking comfort, not eating enough.
3. Adults can't accurately judge the baby's crying needs
If the baby cries, most people will directly associate it with whether it is hungry or not, so feed it quickly. However, for a newborn who can't speak and can't control his body freely, crying is the only way to express his wishes. However, adults always think that babies are hungry.
In fact, crying may be cold, hot, urinating, defecating, abdominal pain and jumping reflex.
1. Master the basic rules of feeding.
Although breastfeeding is on demand, there is a basic rule after the birth of the second month, feeding once every 2-3 hours, and sucking unilaterally for about 15 minutes each time. After 4 months, feeding on demand can be changed to feeding on time.
Breastfeeding will eventually reach a state of balance between supply and demand, how much the baby eats and how much the mother produces.
Mothers can record the time and duration of breastfeeding for each baby. With these data, they can master the law of baby's breastfeeding.
2. Can accurately grasp the baby's hunger signal
If the baby is hungry, he won't suddenly start crying, but he will definitely go through a process, from a little hungry to very hungry to hungry, from humming, twisting his body, turning his head and opening his mouth to looking for milk, to impatience, twisting his body and finally crying.
As long as the mother observes carefully, she can see the degree of hunger of the baby. It is best to feed the baby when he is a little hungry at first.
3. Be able to judge whether the baby is full.
Although breastfeeding doesn't know how much the baby eats at a time, it doesn't look as accurate and easy to master as a bottle, but the mother's breasts are intelligent, which is life instinct. We can also judge whether the baby is full by other signals:
4. Use mother's fingers instead of nipples to provide sucking demand.
If it is found that the baby is full but still sucking the nipple, the mother can use her cleaned and trimmed little finger, put the abdomen up, draw it into her mouth from the corner of her mouth, touch the baby's upper gum, let the baby open his mouth and spit out the nipple, and then let the baby suck the finger.
When babies learn to eat their hands, they can satisfy their sucking needs by eating their hands.
I am the mother of two children, both of whom are breast-fed. In fact, breastfeeding is unlikely to lead to overfeeding. Relatively speaking, milk powder feeding is more likely to cause overfeeding.
Overfeeding refers to indigestion caused by excessive breast milk intake.
When breastfeeding, the baby's milk quantity can be controlled by himself. Moreover, there is more post-mammary fat in breast milk, so the baby is more likely to feel full and will stop eating breast milk.
It takes strength for a baby to eat breast milk, so the baby will stop to have a rest when he is full. Under normal circumstances, he won't let himself bother to eat.
However, if it is breast-feeding, mothers put breast milk into bottles to feed their babies, which is prone to overfeeding.
The best way to avoid overfeeding is breastfeeding. If it cannot be realized, it is necessary to prepare milk powder in strict accordance with the proportion indicated in the milk powder can, and it is not possible to increase or decrease it by itself.
Don't alternate too often when breastfeeding, try to let the baby eat the empty side and then change it, so that the baby has a normal ratio of front milk to back milk, so as to avoid eating a lot of water in the front milk and getting hungry after peeing.
In short, when breastfeeding, it is generally not overfeeded, but mothers should also remember that babies should burp in time after breastfeeding to avoid spitting and spilling milk.
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Overfeeding means that the pregnant mother provides more nutrients and energy for the baby's feeding than the baby's own metabolic needs. Whether there is overfeeding depends largely on the overall judgment of the feeder on the baby's required intake. When the baby is overfeed, it often shows symptoms of indigestion, such as diarrhea, watery stool with foam, often green; Abdominal pain, the baby often cries because of abdominal pain and flatulence; Vomiting, often manifested as spitting milk, can not be alleviated by patting the back; Not only does the baby's weight not increase, but it may also decrease.
Generally speaking, breast-fed babies instinctively adjust their energy intake. Pregnant mothers don't need to worry too much, and the baby will "overeat" because he wants to drink milk too much. Although some babies have a high demand for sucking, in fact, every bite a baby takes can be controlled by his own needs, not forced to eat. As the baby grows up, the baby's demand for sucking will gradually decrease, and the frequency of breastfeeding will also decrease. Some breast-fed babies gain too much weight because of frequent breastfeeding, even in the first few months, and the weight gain will slow down to normal due to the increase of exercise in the later period.
For breast-fed babies, overfeeding is often caused by premature addition of weaning food or high-salt and high-protein complementary food by pregnant mothers. The research shows that the probability of obesity in children is obviously reduced by improving the breastfeeding rate, providing nutrition education to pregnant mothers and their families, and delaying the time for babies to add solid food. Therefore, in order to avoid overfeeding, pregnant mothers need to let their babies have good eating habits in infancy.
For babies aged 0-6 months, exclusive breastfeeding can meet all the needs of energy, nutrition and fluids at this stage. At this stage, the baby only needs to feed according to the baby's needs, more than 6-8 times a day. When the baby's weight is not up to standard, it is necessary to increase the number of feedings.
For babies aged 6- 12 months, in addition to continuing breastfeeding and ensuring the milk quantity of 600-800ml per day, complementary food should be gradually added to the baby. First, add cereal to your baby, such as baby nutritious rice noodles. When the baby is 6 months old, you can start adding mushy food, such as rice paste, vegetable paste, fruit paste and so on. When the baby is 2-9 months old, it can gradually transition from mushy food to soft solid food such as minced vegetables, rotten noodles and minced meat. When the baby 10- 12 months old, most babies can change from soft solid food to solid food. When making complementary food, pregnant mothers can add a small amount of cooking oil, but try to reduce sugar, spices and salt, and arrange fresh fruits every day.
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Generally speaking, breastfeeding will not overfeed.
Because my mother's body is amazing, it is not a storage space for breast milk, but more like a production workshop. The sucking of children is the key to determine the production speed of this workshop.
Children who smoke hard on an empty stomach will be more productive. Children will be lazy when they are full, and the milk production speed will be reduced.
Therefore, if you breastfeed, you won't overfeed.
Just now, I said that breast milk is pro-feeding, but if the milk is sucked out and fed in a bottle, there is the possibility of overfeeding. Because the flow of the bottle is fixed, the strength of the child's suction will not have much impact.
Therefore, if it is breast-feeding bottle-feeding, we should pay attention to the child's situation and comprehensively judge the approximate milk quantity of the child according to the child's month age and the total amount of food eaten that day.
The key to avoid overfeeding is to observe the situation of your own children, not to compare with other children. Especially for babies who are used to breastfeeding, they feel that the amount of milk will be lower than that of babies who are used to bottle feeding.
After 4 months, children can drink 80ml of milk at most when they go to work with milk and bottle feeding, but children of his age who drink milk powder can drink 160ml at a time. Half the difference, I really can't refer to others.
I am the mother of two children, both of whom are exclusively breastfed. My milk is very good, so when my children are young, I pay great attention to avoid overfeeding. I won't elaborate on the harm of overfeeding here, just talk about the situation of overfeeding.
Compared with eating milk powder, breastfeeding rarely leads to overfeeding. Breastfeeding is a very hard thing. We often say "try to breastfeed" to show that someone has done their best. If you observe the child carefully, you will find that the child will be sweating in just a few minutes. Children often fall asleep after eating and drinking milk, so that adults have to shake their children up and let them continue to eat.
However, breastfeeding sometimes leads to overfeeding.
We can observe whether children are overfeed by observing their performance.
Therefore, new mothers should not take it lightly because of their own pro-feeding, or they should observe their babies more and avoid overfeeding.
Will breastfeeding lead to overfeeding? How to avoid overfeeding?
Overfeeding refers to giving parents more energy and other nutrients than the baby's body needs to maintain metabolic homeostasis. The traditional overeating of the elderly refers to indigestion caused by too much water. Breastfed babies generally do not have overfeeding, while overfeeding generally occurs in milk powder babies.
Feeding in this way will cause malabsorption and aggravate the fragile digestive ability of neonatal digestive organs. Parents must supply food in a planned way so that the baby can always maintain a normal appetite. If the stomach digests too much food for a long time, the baby's digestive tract will inevitably expand, and its limited blood circulation and oxygen will be transferred from the baby's head to the digestive tract, thus causing temporary ischemia of brain cells.
So on the surface, the more babies eat, the more red blood cells are needed for gastrointestinal circulation. After eating too much, stomach acid will increase tens of thousands of times because of overeating after meals, which is easy to cause obesity and even affect the development of the brain and mental retardation. Obesity caused by overeating will lead to sudden weight gain, sudden loss of shape and so on when there is a positive energy balance environment in the body.
Watery stool, mixed with foam and green. The child vomits milk and burps can't be relieved. Children with abdominal pain will cry because of flatulence. Weight does not increase or decrease.
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Breastfeeding can lead to overfeeding, but this is rare.
Because breast-fed babies have high requirements for sucking, they "control" every bite, and they are not forced to accidentally eat it like bottle feeding. If a breast-fed baby sucks for a long time, it is easy to suck the milk, which has a high fat content and is easy to feel full, thus stopping sucking. Moreover, breastfeeding generally takes a lot of effort. When the baby is finally full, he should rest. Generally, it doesn't take much effort to make yourself full. However, if breast milk is sucked into the bottle to feed the baby, it is easy to overdose.
Overfeeding refers to giving more energy and other nutrients than the baby needs to maintain metabolic homeostasis. Traditional overeating refers to the syndrome of indigestion caused by excessive intake of milk by infants. Symptoms are as follows:
1, watery stool, often frothy and green.
2, vomiting, spitting milk can not be alleviated by snoring.
3, abdominal pain, accompanied by crying due to abdominal pain or flatulence.
4. weight does not increase or decrease.
1, improve the breastfeeding rate.
Premature addition of weaning food and intake of high salt and protein are the main causes of overfeeding. In the 1960s and early 1970s, there were many overweight and obese babies in Britain. Through nutrition education, the breastfeeding rate has been improved, the time for infants to add solid food has been delayed, and the incidence of overweight and obesity in children has been significantly reduced.
2. Establish good eating habits and lifestyle.
All pregnant mothers and new mothers should study hard, understand the importance of correct feeding, learn how to correctly prepare formula milk, and avoid adding solid food to their babies too early. Babies are a critical period for the formation of eating habits. Try not to let the bottle feeding period be too long, and parents should also avoid using food to comfort and encourage their babies. (Image and text from the network)
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Dear baby, good evening, mom and dad! Yesterday we analyzed some basic problems of neonatal overfeeding. I believe everyone has a basic understanding of the dangers of baby overfeeding. So, today we will talk about how to avoid this situation.
First of all, parents should have the following preparations:
1. Have a sense of reasonable feeding, learn more scientific parenting knowledge, and know how much food children of different months or ages need to eat and what food to eat;
2. Observe the child's diet and development, and be alert to the child's overweight or obesity;
3. Go to a regular hospital for a physical examination to better understand the baby's development;
4, correctly understand the baby's development, correct mentality, do not follow the trend, as long as the child develops normally, even if it is thin, don't worry, healthy development is important.
Because in our previous introduction, we have been taking formula-fed babies as an example, you may form the view that exclusively breastfed babies will not be overfeed. Then we must say that this view is incorrect, and the main factor that will make people have this illusion lies in the "way of breastfeeding". First of all, the probability of breast-feeding babies overfeeding is really low, but this is because breast-feeding is a laborious process for babies, and they must use all their strength to complete the sucking action. Therefore, as the old saying goes, "all the strength to suck milk is used." It is precisely because this breastfeeding method is laborious and slow, and the milking speed is moderate. When the baby feels full, he naturally stops eating.
Many people, especially the older generation, think that breast-fed babies will not support themselves. Even if there is more breast milk, the baby can't feed himself if he eats more or eats breast milk frequently. Actually, this is a wrong view. Any food will be full once it is eaten beyond a certain standard, and so will breast milk. Then the question comes, the baby can't talk, how to judge whether the baby is full or not?
First, how to judge whether the baby is full?
1, according to the sound when the baby swallows milk.
The doctor said that the baby eats milk regularly, and every time he eats 2-3 mouthfuls, he can hear the sound of swallowing. If the baby suckles like this, it will be full in about ten minutes. However, if you only hear the baby sucking hard and don't hear the baby swallowing, it is likely that the baby's milk is insufficient or too little, so the baby is definitely not full.
2. Observe the number of times the baby pees.
What Ma Bao should pay attention to is that under normal circumstances, that is, when the baby is full, the number of urination should be about 8 times. If the frequency of urination is obviously less or more every day, it is mostly because the baby is not full or eats too much. At this time, it is necessary to adjust the baby's food intake according to the number of urination.
3. Look at the baby's weight
In fact, the weight of a newborn baby can best reflect the baby's food intake. Under normal circumstances, the baby's weight gain in the first month should be around 30 grams. If the baby gains too much weight, it is that the baby eats too much every day. Although it is a good thing for children to like to eat, we should also pay attention to controlling the food intake of children when they were young, so as not to cause too much burden on the stomach.
4. Look at the baby's reaction
The baby's reaction is actually the most direct and simple. At night, it will be delicious if the baby stops making trouble and crying after eating. At this time, you can put the baby to sleep again. If the baby leaves the nipple by himself during the day, it is full.
When children are young, they tend to overeat or starve because they can't talk. As long as Ma Baoduo cares about the baby, she can actually make reasonable adjustments.
Second, will breast-fed babies eat it?
Breastfeeding can lead to overeating, that is, overfeeding, but this situation is rare.
Because breast-fed babies have high requirements for sucking, they "control" every bite, and they are not forced to accidentally eat it like bottle feeding. If a breast-fed baby sucks for a long time, it is easy to suck the milk, which has a high fat content and is easy to feel full, thus stopping sucking. Moreover, breastfeeding generally takes a lot of effort. When the baby is finally full, he should rest. Generally, it doesn't take much effort to make yourself full. However, if breast milk is sucked into the bottle to feed the baby, it is easy to overdose.
Overfeeding refers to giving more energy and other nutrients than the baby needs to maintain metabolic homeostasis. Traditional overeating refers to the syndrome of indigestion caused by excessive intake of milk by infants. Symptoms are as follows:
1, watery stool, often frothy and green.
2, vomiting, spitting milk can not be alleviated by snoring.
3, abdominal pain, accompanied by crying due to abdominal pain or flatulence.
4. weight does not increase or decrease.
Third, what harm does overfeeding do to your baby?
1, overfeeding can easily lead to chemical malabsorption. Overfeeding will increase the workload of digestive organs and cause indigestion. Parents must supply food in a planned way so that the baby can always maintain a normal appetite.
2, excessive eating is easy to brain fatigue. If the stomach digests too much food, the digestive tract will inevitably expand, and limited blood and oxygen will be transferred from the head to the digestive tract, so brain cells will be temporarily ischemic. Therefore, the more you eat, the more blood the gastrointestinal tract needs, and the less blood supply to the brain, the greater the damage to the brain.
3, overfeeding will also promote the premature aging of the baby's brain. Eating too many premature aging substances will increase tens of thousands of times, which will easily lead to obesity and even affect brain development and mental retardation.
4. Overeating can lead to obesity. Excessive intake of protein in infancy will stimulate protein synthesis and cell proliferation, and increase muscle and fat cells. When there is a positive energy balance environment in the body, such as adolescence and pregnancy, obesity is prone to occur.