Young mothers often worry about whether the baby has enough breast milk. If the baby in the first weeks of life is calm after feeding and sleeps until the next meal, then most likely he has enough milk. Also, pay attention to the following signs.
Necessary
scales suitable for weighing babies
Instructions
Step 1
Check how much the baby is peeing. To do this, you will have to give up disposable diapers for a while. In the first weeks of life, a child should write at least ten times. The baby's urine is normally clear and odorless.
Step 2
Weigh your baby every week. Stable weight gain is an indicator that a baby is getting enough milk. For a baby over seven days old, it should be at least 150 grams per week. Usually, in the first month of life, the baby adds an average of 600 grams, from the second to the fourth, about 800 grams per month.
Step 3
Count how many times the baby empties the intestines per day. In the first days after childbirth, the baby's stool is dark, the so-called meconium. If there is enough milk for the baby, then on the third day the stool changes to a transitional one, which has a green color. After a few more days, the stool returns to normal and turns brown. From this moment on, the child should be emptied at least four times a day, it is better if this happens after each feeding. Starting from the second month of life, stool gradually becomes less frequent - up to once a day.
Step 4
If you want to reliably determine how much milk a baby eats, then you should measure the baby's weight before and after each feeding during the day. From this difference, you will find the amount of milk per feeding. By adding up all the results in a day, you will find out how much milk a baby sucks in a day. A child in a day in the first four months of life should eat milk about one fifth of his weight. That is, with a baby weighing five kilograms, it will be one liter of milk.
