What are the symptoms of poor breast milk?

For a newborn baby, the main nutrition comes from the mother's breast milk, and this is a critical time for the baby's physical and brain development, so there must be sufficient nutrition to guarantee it. So if the quality of the mother's breast milk is not good, it will have a great impact on the baby's development. At this time, the mother must supplement comprehensive nutrition through diet, such as eating more nourishing soups, which can improve the nutrition of breast milk. So if the breast milk is not good, what symptoms may the baby have?

What are the symptoms of poor breast milk?

Feeding illusion 1: Each feeding takes more than an hour and the child is never full. The child is not sucking milk, but sometimes he just holds the nipple in his mouth. Some elders say that this is a bad habit. In fact, babies do not suck milk, but will also hold towels or quilt corners in their mouths, which is a bad habit.

Feeding illusion 2: Breast milk is enough at the beginning, but after a few days the baby always cries, as if he is not full. One week, 10 days, one and a half months to three months after the baby is born, there will be a rapid growth period and the baby will be easily hungry. At this time, breast milk may not seem sufficient, not because the breast milk has decreased, but because the baby has eaten too much. At this time, the new mother should feed the baby several times more every day. As the baby sucks more often, the amount of milk will definitely increase.

Feeding illusion three: other new mothers have more milk. Because of different physiological structures, the amount of milk produced by each new mother is different. The breast milk may not be as much as that of other new mothers, but it is enough for my child.

Feeding illusion four: The milk is very thin, not white and thick like some people’s milk. When it is squeezed out, it seems like there is a layer of oil on it. The milk that the baby drinks in the first 10 minutes is foremilk, which is thinner and contains more water. The subsequent milk is called hind milk, which is rich in fat and milky white in color. Therefore, breastfeeding recommends that the baby should feed on one breast for 20 to 30 minutes. If the baby switches breasts too quickly, the baby will not be able to get the nutritious hind milk.

Feeding illusion five: If the child sucks the nipple to pieces, he must not be eating enough. Scientific feeding posture is very important. The baby's and mother's abdomens should be close together, and the baby's chin should be close to the mother's breast. And you must suck the areola, with more of the areola exposed above than below, because the mammary sinuses that secrete milk are below the areola. It will be difficult to suck milk by just holding the nipple, and it is easy to break the nipple.

Feeding illusion six: The child falls asleep after just a few sips of milk, wakes up after a short sleep, and wants to eat again. When a baby falls asleep after feeding for a while, he is not actually asleep, but dozing off because he is tired. He often has to eat for a while and then sleep for a while, repeating this two or three times before he can be truly full.

Experts point out that once a new mother is influenced by the illusion of "insufficient milk" and adds milk powder to her child prematurely, this illusion will become a reality. The secretion of milk has a notable characteristic, that is, the more the baby sucks, the more it is secreted. Therefore, in recent years it has been advocated that babies should start sucking their mother's breasts within half an hour after birth. On the one hand, it is to obtain precious colostrum. On the other hand, it is also for the mother's breasts to be fully stimulated.