Breast milk is unquestionably the best food for a newborn, but what if your mother has problems with lactation? It is clear that in the absence of milk the baby is automatically switched to artificial feeding, but it also happens that breast milk is, but it is not enough. This is where young moms come up with questions about how and when to supplement a child with a mixture.
Mixed feeding
Before deciding whether it is possible to supplement the infant with a mixture, it is necessary to visit the pediatrician. Only a doctor on the basis of weighing and examining the child will decide whether it is necessary to mix and how to properly feed the child with a mixture so that he does not give up breast milk at all. Weigh-in is done before and after breastfeeding. In addition, the daily number of urination matters. If there are less than 12, then the child is clearly malnourished.
We feed properly
Observing the rules of introducing complementary foods, you can avoid giving up breastfeeding from natural feeding. First, the first thing you have to offer a hungry child is the chest. Only after the complete devastation of both breasts can you offer a mixture. And the mixture should be given from a spoon, because sucking through the nipple will quickly become a habit and the baby will realize that this is easier and will give up from the breast. Remember, any mixture is injected with microdoses, so that the baby's body can adapt to new foods.
Choice of mixture
To recommend a certain mixture to all babies is a utopia. It should be selected individually, watching the reaction of the child's body. Only an experimental way, my mother will be able to determine which mixture is better to feed her baby. Pediatricians advise adapted mixtures, which are the closest in composition to the mother's milk: Nutrilon, Nan, Nutricia.