Babies gulping when feeding

- How often do I breastfeed during the day? The baby feeds on demand and you can put him to the breast even 20 minutes after he has let go of the breast if he asks again. You do not have breaks in feeding more than 2 hours. nine0003

- Is my baby feeding enough at night? On average, your baby wakes up about 2-3 times (or more) during the night to suckle.

If one or more of these questions does not correspond to the described option, your body is "working" at half strength and it is very important that you change the situation. These are the basic principles by which the female body works in order to produce the right amount of milk. By following these simple rules, after 3-7 days your body will be able to start producing more milk. nine0003

If you are doing all of these, but your baby is underweight, contact a lactation consultant to help you decide on a breastfeeding strategy together.

BABY IS LONG AT THE BREAST

In the first month, breastfeeding can last from 10-15 minutes and more than 30-60 minutes - this is a common occurrence if the baby is gaining weight well. Attachment to the breast for a child is a very important process, not only in terms of saturation. He helps him in a variety of situations - for example, when the child is agitated, burst into tears - the best calmer for the baby is breast sucking. In stressful situations, infants prefer to “survive” unpleasant moments by sucking on their breasts; it is known that breast milk contains sedative and analgesic factors. Many mothers talk about the fact that in the evening, children like to spend a lot of time under their breasts. This is not associated with a decrease in lactation. This is explained by the fact that having survived the whole day, the baby is tired, the nervous system is already overloaded and the child needs help to cope with this, and prolonged breast sucking is the best antidepressant and sedative for him. nine0003

However, there are situations when, with frequent feedings, the baby suckles for a long time and gains weight poorly, then it is worth checking the correct attachment to the breast and the organization of feedings in general (see above).

TOO MUCH MILK IN THE BREAST

There are situations when milk flows like a river from the breast and the baby chokes and chokes while sucking. What to do in this case? This happens to many mothers, especially at the very beginning of breastfeeding. This is due to the fact that at the beginning of each feeding, the hormone oxytocin begins to eject milk from the breast. And if the baby is still small, then he may not be able to cope with a strong flow of breast milk, he may begin to choke, cough. nine0003

A mother can learn to recognize when such situations arise by listening to her baby suckle. Usually, when milk is ejected, the child begins to actively swallow milk and quite loudly. At such moments, the mother can take the breast from the baby (insert a finger between the baby's gums and release the nipple) and wait a minute when this flow of milk subsides. And then put it on your chest again. Another option is to change your feeding position. Lie down and place your baby on top of your chest. In this case, the pressure of milk will be less and the baby will be more comfortable sucking. nine0003

As part of the Let's Help the Children program, the Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center, in cooperation with UNICEF, provides information support to mothers affected by the conflict in Donbas. You can ask an online question to a lactation consultant here.

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To parents about the prevention of dental diseases in young children

Dental caries is the most common human disease. Caries occurs in people of all ages, but most actively occurs in children. The condition of our child's teeth largely depends on us. It is necessary to think about the prevention of caries in a child from the beginning of pregnancy, because. laying of the rudiments of milk teeth occurs at 6-10 weeks of pregnancy. The expectant mother must strictly follow the recommendations of the gynecologist on the regime of work and rest, the woman must consume daily vegetables and fruits, milk, eggs, fish, meat. A woman should carefully look after her teeth, because. in soft plaque on the teeth there is a huge amount of microbes and their decay products, when swallowed, prerequisites are created for the emergence and development of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and other organs. The expectant mother should have all her teeth cured, because. a sick tooth can become a source of chroniosepsis for the mother, while the unborn child suffers at the same time. nine0003

The child is born. Prevention of dental diseases should begin from the first days of his life. In order for a child to form a healthy dentoalveolar system, it is necessary to pay serious attention to the development of healthy functions of breathing, sucking, then chewing, swallowing, and subsequently posture. If a child has a bad habit of breathing through the mouth and a pediatric ENT doctor has established that there are no anatomical obstacles to nasal breathing, it is necessary to ensure that the child sleeps with his mouth closed. To do this, conditions are created for the correct position (pose) of the child during sleep: the baby's head should not be thrown back or too raised. An indicator of the correct position of the head is a calm closing of the lips. If during sleep the child still opens his mouth, by touching the child's chin with a finger, raise his lower jaw until it touches the upper. If this measure is not enough, the child should be shown to a pediatric orthodontist. nine0003

A child is born with such a position of the jaws that for their physiologically correct ratio in the future, a certain load on them is required in the form of an active sufficient duration of sucking and then chewing. If a child is fed with mother's milk, he works to "get" it. If the baby is artificially fed, it is necessary to create conditions under which he would have to expend effort to suck milk out of the bottle through the nipple. The nipple should be short and firm. There should be three holes, but small ones, otherwise the baby will choke, not have time to swallow food. After tipping over the bottle, the food should not flow out of the hole, but drip down. With active sucking, the child's tongue, lips, and lower jaw are involved in movement. Without such gymnastics, the movement of the lower jaw of the child forward may be delayed and it will remain underdeveloped. nine0003

The child is full, but there is no complete satisfaction in sucking, he is worried, sucks his tongue or lip, does not fall asleep. In such cases, he can be given a pacifier for a short time - before the onset of deep sleep, after which the pacifier must be removed from his mouth.

Bad habits of sucking the tongue, fist, finger are formed from early childhood - in the first 3 months of a child's life. To prevent them, it is recommended to put on a baby's undershirt with protective sleeves, specially sewn mittens or fix a light splint on the child's elbow joint during wakefulness, making it impossible to reach the mouth with a pen. nine0071 During teething, due to irritation of nerve receptors, itching appears in the places of teething. Babies become irritable, restless, sleep poorly, eat poorly. It is necessary to give the child a “nibble” on a plastic or rubber ring, and give a pacifier while falling asleep. It is unacceptable to use a dummy after the age of one year, as well as to use it during the waking period. This bad habit leads to deformation of the dentition.

For the correct development of teeth and jaws, a timely transition to eating from a spoon and a cup, a transition to taking more dense, and then solid food, requiring biting and chewing, is necessary. Starting from 4-5 months, before giving yogurt or other bottled food to the baby through the nipple, 1/3 portion of this food should be given from a spoon. While the baby is hungry, he will push his lower jaw towards the spoon and try to remove food with his lips. Tasty food (juices, fruit and vegetable purees, kissels) should also be given from a spoon. When spoon-feeding, it should be brought to the lips, and not put into the mouth. The kid should reach for it, this tension is a kind of training of the jaws and muscles. A spoon for a child at the end of the first year of life should become the main cutlery. But for the last evening feeding, an exception can be made. The baby is tired by this time, feed him from a bottle through a nipple. He eats his portion, and sucking movements calm him down, deep sleep comes faster. nine0071 Food is the main source of building materials for developing teeth and should contain the optimal amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, microelements. But an excess of refined carbohydrates (sugar, sweets, honey, etc.) creates conditions for the occurrence of caries - first of all, the immature insular apparatus is overloaded, which leads to a violation of carbohydrate metabolism in the body, a decrease in caries resistance of tooth tissues, and after teething sugar-rich food is fermented in the mouth to lactic acid, which acts directly on the immature tissues of the tooth, because the erupting teeth are poorly mineralized, dental caries quickly develops and progresses, leading to tooth decay already at the age of 2-3 years. nine0003

Not only the composition, but also the form of culinary processing of food affects the dentoalveolar system. The majority of the population, and especially children, consume mostly soft, crushed food (cereals, soft bread, mashed vegetables, chopped meat, etc.), which does not contribute to the natural cleaning of teeth from soft plaque during the act of chewing. With poor self-cleaning of the oral cavity, a lot of sticky food residues accumulate, which contribute to the reproduction of microorganisms. Under the influence of bacteria, food remnants stuck in the interdental spaces undergo decay, fermentation and decay, which leads to the formation of soft plaque, halitosis. When all the teeth have erupted in a child, he needs food that requires vigorous chewing: meat, preferably a boiled piece, and not cranked. Let the children gnaw carrots, turnips, apples, bagels, crackers. With vigorous chewing, the jaws will develop correctly and a normal swallowing function will be formed. Pay attention to the child's face when swallowing. Swallowing normally should not cause grimaces on the face, and no tension. nine0003

Teeth should be brushed from the moment they enter the mouth. In the beginning, to clean the first milk teeth, soft wipes or terry cloth flaps soaked in warm boiled water are used. From the age of one and a half, teach your child to rinse his mouth after eating. Immediately, children swallow everything that falls into their mouths, so they should be taught to rinse their mouths in the following sequence: first ask them to immediately spit out water from their mouths when they take it into their mouths, then teach them to hold it in their mouths, then, passing water between their teeth, rinse and spit it out water. One of the available and reliable methods of preventing dental caries is oral hygiene, the observance of which contributes to the prevention of diseases of the teeth and surrounding tissues. Practice shows that preschool children pay extremely insufficient attention to oral care. Proper oral care, started at an early age, reduces the cleanliness of dental diseases. Do not forget that a personal example is better than any words and arguments. Where parents brush their teeth in the family, this hygienic rule enters into the life of the whole family. Give your child a toothbrush by age 2. Of course, it should be a small brush, the length of the working part (bristles) should not exceed the sum of the diameters of the three adjacent teeth of a child with soft bristles. First, let the child brush his teeth with a moistened brush, without paste, let alone powder, which he can inhale. When he learns to brush his teeth without paste and spit out water when rinsing, move on to brushing with toothpastes: “Mint”, “Family”, “Berry”, “Children's”, “Orange”, “Just you wait”, “Artek”, “ Moidodyr. In case of diseases of the teeth and surrounding tissues, it is necessary to use therapeutic and prophylactic pastes containing biologically active components. They have a beneficial effect on the teeth and soft tissues of the oral cavity. So, with bleeding gums, it is better to use toothpastes "Forest", "Chrolophilic", "New", "Chamomile", "Balm". If the child has a lot of carious teeth, we recommend toothpastes: Cheburashka, Belorozovaya, Zhemchuk, Fluorodent. Teach your child how to brush their teeth. To clean the teeth, sweeping, circular, reciprocating movements with a brush are used. Sweeping movements are necessary to clean the buccal, palatine, lingual, labial surfaces of the teeth, reciprocating - mainly to clean the chewing surfaces. Circular movements are carried out when cleaning the lingual, palatine and labial surfaces of the teeth, but after sweeping. nine0003

Gradually increase the duration of brushing your teeth to 3-3.5 minutes. Teeth cleaning should be supervised and assisted by adult family members.
It is very important to take your child to a pediatric dentist once a year, even if you think the child's teeth are healthy. Firstly, the initial forms of caries are asymptomatic, and carious cavities are localized in places that are inaccessible to viewing with just an eye without a dental mirror and probe. And teeth can be destroyed very early, even at the age of 2 years, and at 2 years old, 18-25% of children already have carious cavities. It is very important to be cured in time, and that means to keep milk teeth. nine0003

The child needs to be prepared for dental visits; refrain from talking in his presence about the fear you feel when you visit the dentist. A child who has never had a toothache sits quietly in a chair and allows himself to have his tooth fixed.

Untimely treatment of milk teeth entails diseases of the rudiments of permanent ones, which are located under the roots of milk teeth.
In children aged one to three years, a herpes infection occurs in the form of acute herpetic stomatitis. The first signs of the disease are a sudden increase in body temperature, salivation, redness of the oral mucosa. Report the child’s illness to the preschool institution and, after the diagnosis is made by a pediatric dentist, isolate the child from other children in the family, provide him with separate dishes, a bed, a towel, ventilate the room, create conditions for the penetration of sunlight into the room, strictly follow the instructions of the pediatric dentist, otherwise the disease can go into a chronic relapsing form, which is unfavorable for the health of the child himself and he becomes dangerous for the surrounding children, especially during the period of relapses.

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