I do not want and I will not, or why does the baby refuse milk?
At about 2.5 months my son became reluctant to take breasts. I had to give milk from a bottle, although later I refused it. Now the child is 4 months old. It is very difficult to feed him, at night he wakes up every hour and eats with pleasure, and in the afternoon he does only a couple of sips, turns away, fits, distractes. Weight is within normal limits, but I'm very worried about his poor appetite during the day, and exhausting night awakenings. What could be wrong?
Age 3-4 months is the period when babies can suckle the breast inattentively, distracted by everything that surrounds them. In that case, you do not have to worry. Usually babies eat better before falling asleep, and this feeding can take 20-40 minutes. And all other attachments, if they last 3-7 minutes, are a common thing.
Perhaps your situation can be called "pre-tantalizing." The child tries to show you that there is something wrong in his life, so he fits at the breast while feeding the baby, an important period, arches. calming can lead to the beginning of failure, it should be quietly cleaned from the life of the crumbs, and learn how to soothe the child in other ways, including applying to the chest.To the bottle try not to resort, this is another serious enemy of breastfeeding. Do not be tired, put the child to sleep under your barrel, and try to pay more attention to him in the daytime: wear it on your hands (in a sling), lie down next to each other when the baby sleeps, let your breasts sleep every night. Sitting on it, rock the baby, and then gently put the chest in the mouth, but do not force the child to eat by force! You need to rehabilitate, show the crumbs that to feed, calm down at the breast easily, calmly and reliably . Gradually your baby will understand this.
Soon the end
My daughter is a year and a half, I would like to finish breastfeeding. I heard about drugs that stop lactation. But recently, one of them took advantage of my friend. Milk really ended, but several days later it appeared again, and in such quantity that due to the temperature and pain she had to go to the hospital. I'm also going to stop the process of feeding the baby - an important period to combine with the vacation, so that I and my baby can calmly forget. How to do it right?
There are drugs that reduce the level of prolactin in the body of a woman, and they are often mistaken for a means to stop lactation. Already in 6 months of the child's life the level of prolactin in the body of a woman is reduced to a pre-pregnancy level, so in a year and a half it is not necessary to reduce it with the help of drugs. And here side effects after their reception happen, as at your friend, for example.
How to reduce lactation?
I get a lot of milk from time to time. I know that pumping only increases its number, so I do it only as a last resort. I try not to drink hot on such days. Is it possible to reduce lactation?
Expressing increases the amount of milk, and you competently act, decanting only in rare cases and quite a bit. In order to slightly reduce the hyperlactation, you can organize the process of feeding the baby as an important period in the following way.
Offer the baby the same breast 2-3 times in a row. Then in the second one, which is in the "waiting mode", a substance will start to be produced that reduces the rate of milk production, which means that there will be less milk, but for example, let one breast be "nursing" for two hours today, then enter on the "watch" the second.On a day or two make the time of duty 2 hours 15 minutes, then more - up to 3 hours.
In the days of the tide, try to limit the amount of liquid itself to 1-1.5 liters per day. You can try to drink infusion, suppressing lactation (a sheet of walnut, sage), but with caution - no more than 1 glass a day and a short time (not always). Peppermint is considered a weaker means to reduce lactation, drink tea and from it.
Address to a homeopathist, that he has appointed or nominated individual preparations for decrease in a lactemia, if all the aforesaid does not help or assist. The main thing is not to despair and get patience!
To drink or not to drink?
Do I need a child 4 months to give tea or water? Son on breastfeeding, weight and all other indicators are normal, but all the familiar mummies at this age already dopaivayut their babies. Am I doing the right thing, confining myself to milk?
Up to six months no additional drink is needed.
An exception is when there are special indications to this. When a mother has a lot of milk, a child eats often, every three hours, and even a big night break does not affect either the baby's health or lactation, in this case, for every feeding your son has time to drink a sufficient amount of milk, water necessary for the child. After 6 months, start dopaivat crumbs water from the cup (use special children's water without gas). As for tea, it can be introduced into the diet of the baby to 9 months. The more fluid loss, the higher the urgency of drinking.
To cause a baby's thirst can sweat with active physical activity, excess clothes, hot weather. I repeat, in case of normal weight gain and lack of dehydration in a newborn, the question of milking a baby up to 6 months should not arise. If the baby is healthy, feels well and is happy with everything, there is no need! All that you need is in your mother's milk.