The health of the child is very important, and it is laid from the very birth, along with the mother's breast milk. However, not all women are able to independently feed their baby, so an adapted formula has become a replacement for mother's milk.
Artificial feeding of children
Adapted formulas or milk replacers are the basis of infant formula feeding. Most of the substitutes are formula milk based on regular cow's milk. The fact is that such a mixture is almost identical in composition to human milk and corresponds to the metabolism of babies.
Less adapted casein blends are made from whey-free casein. For the rest of the parameters, they correspond in the same way to human milk. Such mixtures are usually given to babies from 3 months and fed for a short time. Recently, women have been actively using formulas for older children, whose age starts from six months, since they contain a high content of proteins and calories.
In the very first weeks of life, your baby is best fed with unleavened mixtures. The fact is that fermented milk can cause increased regurgitation. Further, it makes sense to add fresh mixtures to fermented milk, mixing everything in equal proportions. For proper feeding, you need to know that nutritional mixtures are digested in the baby's stomach a little longer than human milk. So you don't need to overfeed in large portions. Otherwise, the risk of loss of appetite can increase, which will be very difficult to recover.
How to feed your baby with an adapted formula
It is necessary to feed the baby in the very first months often, about six times during the day and every three and a half hours. Bottle-fed babies switch to less frequent feeding earlier.
By four months, when your baby's stomach is already strong and the digestive system is working more confidently, you should reduce the intake of mixtures to five times a day.
It is also important to consider that the need for nutrients increases with the growth of the child. Fruit juices and egg yolk should be added to the diet. It is extremely important to strictly follow the regimen and feed the baby by the hour. In no case should you feed your child every time he is naughty.
Otherwise, you run the risk of earning your baby a digestive system disorder and hitting the gastrointestinal tract.
Remember that artificial feeding is not a substitute for breast milk, but if you follow all the rules, the baby will grow up healthy. The very period of such feeding lasts up to one and a half years, however, the moment of termination and the transition to another diet should be made only after consulting a pediatrician. As a rule, by the age of two, the child is already able to eat and give up formula, smoothly switching to baby food.
