Mothers continue to worry about their children’s nutrition even when they are adults. The most important reason for this worry and anxiety is motherhood.
is that women often feel inadequate. This feeling of inadequacy comes especially from the tendency of new mothers to constantly blame their milk when they feed their babies. However, going through objective data to make the right decision about the adequacy of milk will prevent mothers from making wrong practices. So, is your milk enough? Details in our article.

How Do I Know When My Baby is Full?

According to objective data;
The baby changes a minimum of 4 soiled diapers (pee, pee poop or poopy diapers) during the day,
Breast milk is sufficient if the child is gaining enough weight per month or per day in accordance with his/her age.

Why is my baby not full?

Not Getting Enough Milk

It is perhaps the least common reason, but the most common cause of concern for mothers. This needs to be decided on the basis of objective data. If babies soil fewer than 4 diapers a day, as mentioned above, but still have low weight gain, they may not be getting enough breast milk. If the mother is concerned about the baby’s weight gain, she should consult her doctor to evaluate it according to the month. The doctor will create a plan for the mother to organize the diet correctly.

Decreased Breast Milk in the Evening

Breast milk does not work overtime. Therefore, the amount of milk mothers have may fluctuate during the day. You can only understand this by breastfeeding. If you have objective data, you can overcome this problem by breastfeeding your baby more in the evening.

In addition, it is in the mother’s arms that the baby feels safest in stressful situations. Not hugging the baby so that he or she does not get used to being held can increase the child’s stress even more. Therefore, from the newborn period onwards, it is necessary to feed and cuddle the baby whenever he or she asks for it. This not only increases breast milk supply, but also reduces the baby’s crying episodes and the risk of infantile colic. It is very common for the baby to want to suckle during the night as well as during the day.
it’s commonplace. In these cases, recognizing that the baby is different from adults and accepting the fact that the baby may not sleep for a long time and thinking that this fatigue is temporary can reduce stress. Therefore, cuddling and breastfeeding the baby day and night will nourish him/her both emotionally and physically.

Growth Attack

The baby sucks less but more often during growth spurts. Therefore, the more often you breastfeed your baby during this period, the more your milk production will increase. The restlessness associated with a growth spurt passes in a few days and the baby’s feeding habits return to normal.

How Can Breast Milk Be Increased?

• Breastfeed plenty with the right breastfeeding technique
• Make skin-to-skin contact with the baby while breastfeeding
• Increase your fluid consumption
• Rest and sleep
• Have confidence in yourself
• Avoid ready-to-eat foods unless necessary
• Stay away from stress
• Pay attention to your diet

Is My Baby Crying Because of Hunger?

Babies’ usual behavior, which babies should normally do, can make mothers think that their cat is doing something wrong. From this
Therefore, it makes mothers feel better to know what is normal for babies to do and act accordingly. The mother’s high self-confidence and well-being is reflected in the baby’s general well-being and helps the baby to relax. When babies cry, the first question that comes to parents’ minds is ‘I wonder if they are hungry? But babies can also cry for different reasons. Not every cry means you are hungry. Therefore, the actual hunger symptoms can often be confused with other reactions, causing delays in meeting the baby’s needs. Hunger symptoms that can be seen in babies can generally be as follows:

Search and Suction Reflexes

When the baby is touched around the lips or cheek, it prepares to suck by turning its head in that direction. This movement is called the seeking-sucking reflex. Usually 3-4
These reflexes continue until 7-9 months. It is also normal for it to continue until the month.

Suction Motive

Until they are 2 years old, babies are in the oral developmental period in psychodevelopmental terms. That’s why a baby does not only suck when it is hungry;
– When you’re thirsty,
– When you get tired,
– When something hurts,
– For pleasure
– He may also want to suck when he is anxious.

Why Is My Baby Losing Weight Despite Good Suckling?

Although babies suckle their mothers very well for the first 7 days after birth, they excrete the edema that has formed in their bodies during pregnancy. Therefore, in total, they physiologically lose between 10-15% of their birth weight. This weight is evaluated on a day-to-day basis and is specific to each baby. It is a process that is considered normal under normal conditions. If the baby’s weight exceeds this limit, the physician will guide the family. 8. After this edema is expelled. Breast milk intake is sufficient for a baby who starts gaining weight on the 15th day and reaches birth weight on the 15th day.

Is my breast milk enough to prevent jaundice in my baby?

Newborn babies may be diagnosed with jaundice in the first 15 days and may need light therapy. Neonatal jaundice is caused by different factors, but insufficient breast milk is also a factor. If the baby has lost a lot of weight during this period, this can cause jaundice to increase. But the weight
If losses are appropriate for the day, extra feeding of the baby may also increase jaundice. In this case, formula may be started without consulting a doctor to help reduce jaundice.

My baby has just been born but no milk is coming from my breast, what should I do?

In such a case, it is again the objective data that must be taken into account. Breast milk is available for every baby who starts sucking immediately after birth and every baby sucks from the first day. A mother’s milk is as much as her baby needs. The baby’s need may be as little as one drop or as much as 1 teaspoon at intervals of 2-3 hours. For the first breastfeeding, manual or machine intervention on the breast may not produce milk. However, you should wait patiently and continue breastfeeding. Because breast milk increases with each breastfeeding. According to the increase in milk, the baby’s stomach also grows physiologically in a gradual way.

Does My Baby Crying Every Time I Take My Baby Off My Mother’s Breast Mean He’s Hungry?

It is always necessary to rely on objective data about the baby’s satiety. The baby, which is one with the mother during pregnancy, also feels itself in the womb after birth.
The main reasons for not wanting to leave the mother’s breast are that they want to touch her skin, seek her smell, hear her bowel or heart sounds.

My baby is sucking, but does it mean that he/she is hungry if he/she also sucks Formula?

As we said at the beginning, there is no need to try formula for babies who provide objective data. Babies do not know the feeling of fullness and will feed until their stomach is full, even if they vomit, they will want to suck again to fill the empty space. So newborn babies get what their mothers give them. At this stage, the decision-maker is the informed parent who needs to evaluate objective data.

Please don’t be a baby! You should always be the decision maker. As we have explained, there are many reasons other than hunger for a baby to want to suck all the time.