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When the mother sees the child eats less:
Sometimes you can feel that the child does not eat enough because the mother often remarked that the child eats frequently and mom tells us that “not full”, but this perception is often wrong and the child usually eat properly, which is reflected in significant increases in weight and height.

The formula to provide a common error often occurs because the child is full and because the formula is digested slowly , it takes food to ask again, which gives the mother a false sense of fullness without all the many benefits of breast milk.
In carrying approximately 6 weeks of life the child may have fewer bowel movements and stops several times to evacuate a day, sometimes falsely perceived as constipation or do not eat enough, this change is normal and does not reflect any problem and not related to improved food intake.

He is also possible that the baby feed less time and that the mother receives a smaller amount of milk, this is not always a fact often inadequate milk production but normal adaptation in which the mother produces enough and the baby eats more efficiently.
To maintain adequate growth weight and size indicates that the child’s diet is adequate.
No wonder the mother perceives falsely sufienciente not producing milk, but it is very rare that she does not have an adequate milk supply. Read the rest of this entry »