A newborn baby is always sucking a breast

It can be said that every mother wants to breastfeed to do the right thing and to feed the baby for a longer period. But sometimes this is due to sudden difficulties. One of the problems that arises is that the baby does not want to let go of the breast for a long time. Mother herself feels, so to speak, dependent on the baby. If the child is also applied at night to the breast, the woman becomes tired, exhausted, deprived of a full sleep.


Before thinking about how to solve this problem, it is necessary to understand the reasons for their appearance. Often, once in such situations, my mother comes to the conclusion that her baby does not have enough milk and is switching to artisanal feeding. But very often breastfeeding can be saved, i.e. not resorting to the fact that before the time to wean the baby from the breast. At some period of its development the baby sucks in a lot of breasts, and this is for the physiological norm. In the future, we describe the periods of development, which can be called critical - this is when the child asks the breast very often.

A newborn often asks for a breast

For the first time the days of life the child sleeps most of the day, waking up only to satisfy his basic need, i.e. need for food. However, at the age of four or five weeks, the mother observes the behavior of the baby in a few changes - the child is awake for a much longer time, it begins a completely conscious reaction to the surrounding, ie, to irritants - it can be light, sound, smile. His view for some time focuses on certain subjects. Usually at this age the child first presents his mother with the first long-awaited, conscious smile.

This is because during the month the slumbering sense organs of the child begin their rapid development. The child begins to understand that in a familiar world for him, something radically begins to change. Of course, the child is seized with a sense of confusion and fright, a desire to return to the world familiar to the world. However, the child already understands that Mom is always next to him. To make him feel Mama's presence and maximum security always, so that there is a physical contact between the mother and the child.

How can this be achieved? First, we apply to the chest. Such a period occurs in all the little ones, it is simple in some it is expressed with greater brightness, and in some it is practically invisible. Such a crisis period can continue in everyone differently - someone has a few days, and someone has a few months. Most mothers also do not assume that there is such a feature during the growing up of the baby and nervously seek the reasons for his restless behavior in anything. Feeling of confusion and fright do not leave the woman especially when such a period becomes protracted to several weeks. At such moments, the mother is looking for help from a pediatrician, but as a result of the examination it turns out that the child is healthy and there are no deviations. It is from such ignorance that there is an unmistakable opinion about the fact that all this comes from the lack of a mother's milk and a hungry baby is crying for precisely this reason.

So how should we behave at such moments? The reason for the crying of the child lies in the unusual sensation of something new, they are experiencing the need for a mother's comfort, which only she can give him. Well, calm down your child with maximalisation. The warmth of your body and the smell that it feels when you are physically contacted by you is the most necessary thing that you need from you.

Do not forget to communicate with the child more often with a voice, speak with him. Your voice is familiar to him, like no other, because he, sitting inside of you, listened to him for nine months. And it is absolutely normal and natural that the fact is that a child is often applied to the chest and should not be denied it, trying to replace the breast with a rubber pacifier or a bottle. The situation from this will not change, but it can get worse. It is much easier to take food from a bottle than from a breast. Thanks to this, the baby can completely give up breast milk, and his desire for contact with his mother, which is vital, can remain unsatisfied. Being in a restless position, the child will endlessly cry, and you, almost constantly, will try to calm him, wearing on your hands and shaking.

But still, if there is any doubt as to why a child always needs a breast and you still think that you do not have enough milk, and because of this the child is constantly feeling hungry, you should do so: do not use disposable diapers for at least one day. If the calculation shows that wet diapers are about 10-12, then you can be absolutely calm - your baby is full and cause for concern in another. But if you have not calmed down, you should consult a pediatrician who will weigh your child. In the event that the baby is gaining the necessary weight for this age, this means that your milk is enough. In order to completely calm down and do not walk every time to consult only to weigh a child, get electronic signs. Every day, a child of up to three months should weigh about forty grams. There is such a method of weighing, which is called a control, but its modern scientists consider it ineffective and does not result in a study of the amount of food eaten by the child at different hours, because each child takes absolutely different amounts of milk to eat. And do not panic if your child has the above signs, indicating the lack of your milk, and run to the pharmacy for the purchase of a milky mixture.