Education and Health Child

The child’s welfare is the most important way to evaluate the success of nutrition. You can do the weekly check of weight, the mother will determine whether the milk is enough if the baby will grow less than 125 grams per week or if it will piss enough (less than 6 wet diapers per day, urine odor strong), you should consult your pediatrician.

In addition, a child eats properly, is comfortable between feeds the other, sleeping a few hours (this varies widely because there are children who look like dormice, “eat and sleep and children already with the hectic pace of life modern or appear batteries batteries producing a note that “there is never downloaded).

The mother should continue their usual diet, only adapt to increasing demands of liquids and calories (500 calories, of which at least 60 provided by the protein), take a varied diet, eliminating only later foods that seem disturb the baby.

As a precaution you should avoid the mushrooms, seafood, limit coffee to a maximum of two cups per day, preferably decaffeinated coffee, decaffeinated tea, preferably, no more than two glasses of wine a day, and beer, no more than a can to day, with meals.

Of course, not smoking: Smoking can cause the baby to tachycardia, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea.

You should also give up the dyes and permanent (substances can be absorbed and eliminated in milk) can enjoy hits and streaks of light.

Many drugs are excreted in milk, albeit in varying quantities, and only some have consequences for the infant. In most cases the mother can continue breastfeeding.

The nurse should only take essential medicines and prescribed by the doctor inform the pediatrician if you notice problems in children.

The mother should breastfeed the baby when prompted, and generally from 5.6 to eight or more times a day in order to implement adequate lactation (but even here there are large individual variability, some children, or almost immediately make 5-6 meals a day, others exceed 10).

You may want to start a small stick once every two hours: humor him, and this stimulates a good milk supply and helps prevent breast engorgement. Over time the infant has a distance!

To ensure proper drainage and stimulation of both breasts, the mother should alternate the breast which starts whenever breastfeeding.

Knowing that most babies can empty a breast mostly in 7 minutes;

therefore sucking additional pleasant for the child, but sometimes not for the mother in case of fissures, are not nutritious and can cause sore nipples.

It should wear lightweight, breathable, not tight.