Do newborns need to be nursed at night

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My baby has just been born for one month. During this period, my daily work is to feed the baby. My mother-in-law has been taking care of me here. Her mother said that the baby should feed according to the time, so she would give the baby to me for feeding in less than two hours. The same is true in the evening. When it comes to the time of feeding, she would call for the baby to feed My family came and stayed in my house for two nights. When I saw that I was feeding my baby at night, my mother said that I shouldn't feed my baby at night, especially when the child was sleeping well. Waking him up would affect his sleep. Moreover, the child didn't wake up and had no appetite to feed. This made me confused. Should I still feed my baby at night? Later, I consulted one of my friends My friend as a doctor understood this problem.

Do newborns need to be nursed at night

First: the mother-in-law and mother-in-law are not completely right about the problem of feeding the baby. Feeding the baby should be on-demand. When the baby wants to feed, when to feed him again. The newborn baby has poor sucking ability, and the quality of the milk is not very good, so the newborn baby sometimes can't eat enough, which is very important One night he will have a need, and his mother should feed him.

Second: if the baby sleeps well at night, there is no need to call up the baby to feed. If the baby is hungry, it will wake up naturally. Then the mother will know that the baby needs to feed, and he is sleeping safely, which means that the baby is very comfortable now, the diaper is not wet, and the stomach is not hungry, so if the baby sleeps safely, there is no need to feed the baby.

Third: at night to give the baby feeding need to pay attention to, the mother must do up to give the baby feeding, many mothers tired for a day, at night directly put the baby in the arms to breast feeding, so it is easy to breast block the baby's mouth and nose and cause danger, if the baby is eating milk to sleep, must take out the nipple from the baby's mouth, don't let the baby with nipple Sleep?

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It is worth noting that newborn babies can be fed at night when they need to, but when the baby grows to four or five months old, they need to give up the habit of night feeding. Otherwise, it is not easy to develop good work and rest habits for the baby, but also easy to make the baby grow too fat, easy to grow dental caries, and also affect the mother's rest.