For any of the reasons for abandoning the breast or bottle, you should first try to eliminate the cause and in no case cease to immediately take away the crumbs from the chest, because everyone has known for a long time that breast-milk is more useful than any mixture.
To anatomical (physiological) are the following reasons:
- short frenum. As is known, the baby sucks his chest with the help of the tongue, and the bottle with the help of the cheeks, so a short bridle prevents him from doing it in full force, due to the slowness of the tongue. In this case, only the surgical intervention and consultations of the dentist can help the baby.
- a child's disease (this is a thrush, and a runny nose, and colic, and stomatitis, and measles, and sores in the mouth, and teething, and other various diseases that lie in wait for your baby). If your baby refuses to take a breast, you should first examine his oral cavity first, if you observe white spots on the tongue, gums and palate, then maybe a milkwoman and it just hurts to take anything into your mouth, so you need to consult with a pediatrician and eliminate this trouble. Usually in this case it is recommended to tighten up personal hygiene (wash hands and chest with soap before each feeding, wash all the toys that the child plays, after feeding give the child a couple of spoonfuls of simple boiled water to wash off the remnants of milk, also recommend to treat the oral cavity with a swab, moistened with a weak solution of soda.
With a cold, you should clear your nose of mucus and dried crusts, you can drip fiz. solution.
With colic (the face of the child is distorted by pain, it knits and cries much, there is a rejection of the breast or bottle), it is necessary to watch for sure:
- Whether correctly the child grasps a breast and does not hurry up;
- not too strong a head of milk;
- Before feeding the baby, you need to spread your crumb on the tummy, which helps improve intestinal motility;
- You can massage the tummy, stroking it by the hour hand, or in the direction of the oblique abdominal muscles (from the ribs to the navel).
In addition, mothers need to closely monitor their diet (it is advisable to exclude products that cause increased gas production - apples, cabbage, legumes and other products that cause fermentation) from their diet, and finally, the warmth of my mother's body, the best assistant in colic.
When teething should consult a doctor, perhaps he will advise you any drugs that reduce pain, such as, for example, kamistat, kalgel and other drugs of similar effect. Usually when the pain passes, the child eats with pleasure.
- The bottle. In some cases, giving up a breast can provoke a bottle that does not suit your child. In this case, the mother begins to think about what to do if the child abandons the bottle and chest, but wants to eat. In the modern world, a huge number of bottles made with the latest technology: this is an orthopedic nipple and a special anti-bulb bottle. When choosing a bottle, if you still decide to resort to her help, pay special attention to the shape and size of the nipple, the next moment - the opening in the nipple, it should be such that as close as possible to the breast (suck from the bottle should be a little more difficult than from the chest, for which your little one will attract a tongue, as he does with breastfeeding).
- anatomical features of the breast (tight chest, retracted nipple, large nipple) usually all these problems can be solved.
So, with a tight chest recommend before the massage to do a massage, a warm compress or simply change the position when feeding, so that the breast was on weight, then the milk will run under the influence of gravity.
With a retracted nipple and large nipple, you can purchase and use a silicone pad.
- tasteless milk . There can be several reasons for this - taking medications (milk from them can be bitter or sour, which is not very popular with many), and maternal nutrition (eating foods such as herring, garlic, onions, various spices and spicy food), changing the taste of milk. As a result, it may not like your baby, which will cause a rejection of breast milk. In addition, even with monthly spoil the taste of milk.
As you know, there is a huge amount of taste buds on the tongue, they have just started to work in children, and, accordingly, they are sensitive to the slightest changes in its diet.
- there is no milk. If the mother has decreased lactation, then you should not immediately abandon breastfeeding and go to the artificial, over time it can return, you just need to give the breast on demand and try to express the milk to the last drop. There are also means to increase lactation, it is better to consult them at the pediatrician.
In addition, we also talked about psychological causes, which include:
- unwillingness of mother to breastfeed;
- unwillingness to have a child;
- fatigue and irritability of mother;
- change of the situation (while the baby is small, you should avoid long and tedious trips, well, or if you are still going to change the situation, take your favorite toys and objects of your baby);
- distractions (loud sounds, new smells, etc.)
- stress for the child (for example, when the mother for some reason has to leave the baby for a fairly long time, on the return of the mother is giving up breast).
In all these situations, the mother must put herself in the place of her baby, calm down and remove, if possible, irritating factors. And if the mother simply does not want to breastfeed, many psychologists recommend doing this: take a centimeter tape and measure the age in the centimeters to which you want to live (70, 80 or 100 years), and then mark on this tape your real age, add to it 1 year - the time of breastfeeding and see how much this segment takes in your long life. Are you so sorry for this year to shine your child?
If, after revealing and eliminating the cause, your baby still refuses to take a breast or a bottle, then you can start feeding your crumb with a spoon, and give it to drink from a mug, so now there is a huge choice of all kinds of drinkers and circles of impregnations, also use a medical syringe without a needle.
These are just some of the reasons why your child can give up breast and bottle, and if you have similar problems, you will already know how to deal with it and where to start!