Whatever it was, but if the child does not gorge, then he does not gain weight, develops worse, which means that mom needs to know how to properly organize mixed feeding, because it's not worth completely giving up breast milk, especially when the baby is not yet it was also 6 months old. Fight is even for a few drops of milk, but not to the detriment of the child - it should be full.
How to calculate supplementary feeding with mixed feeding?
To know how much the baby eats, you need to weigh it before and after feeding on accurate children's electronic scales after each meal throughout the day. After this, you should study the information on how much you should consume a mixture or milk of a child of the appropriate age. Based on these data it will be easy to understand how many milliliters the child does not have enough to feel full and satisfied.
Another way to determine the missing quantity of complementary foods is the method of wet diapers. To do this, you must refuse a day from diapers and swaddle the child in the old fashion to understand how the norm (12 diapers a day) differs from reality, and add a mixture of 30 ml per child at a time until this amount is equal. This method is rather inaccurate and time-consuming.
If you calculate the amount of complementary foods by eye, there is a risk of overfeeding the child, and this will entail indigestion, regurgitation, increased stomach volume and, as a consequence, overfeeding. Let the baby do not eat a few grams of the mixture, rather than get its excess.
How to feed with mixed feeding?
Young mothers are often worried about the question of how to give a mixture with mixed feeding, because it is very important to correctly approach the introduction of complementary foods so that the child one day does not give up the breast at all, in favor of the bottle. To do this, you must first give the breast, and perhaps two if the milk is very small. Only after the child has drunk all the milk should a bottle with a mixture be offered.
Another method used by mothers - a child in one feeding receives only breast milk, and in the next mixture and such meals alternate, but do not combine.
A small nuance concerning the bottle - the nipple on it should be stiff with a small hole, so that the baby would apply the same efforts as breast sucking. After all, if the nipple is soft and the mixture flows without problems, the child will soon realize that this is the best way for him, and will no longer want to work near his chest.
If the baby's supplementary feeding is a temporary condition, it is better to give the mixture not through a bottle, but from a spoon or a cup. So there is more chance that the child will not give up the breast in favor of such an uncomfortable eating, but this requires a special skill. To ensure that milk is not lost at all, it is mandatory to put the baby to the breast at night, to be exact, in the early morning from 3 to 8 hours.
Another tricky way you can try with the baby so that he does not change you for a bottle - there is a special system where the container with a mixture is hung on the neck of the wet nurse and the liquid flows down the soft tubing. Thanks to the elastic material, the child does not feel that, along with the nipple, he has a foreign object in his mouth as well. Thus, the baby is saturated simultaneously with breast milk and a mixture.