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Feeding Patterns | Breastmilk | Every Ounce Counts
First Feedings
Your newborn baby is growing quickly, and that means she needs to eat often. Follow your baby’s lead. It is normal and healthy for your baby to eat 8-12 times in a 24-hour period. That’s about once every 2-3 hours!
In these early days, each breastfeeding session might last 25-40 minutes, but this can vary based on how hungry or sleepy your baby is. It is important to remember that, in addition to food, babies get their hydration, comfort and snuggle time while at the breast.
Offer Both Breasts
Feed your baby on the fuller breast first until she naturally comes off or falls asleep, then try to burp her and offer the other breast. Breastfed babies often don’t burp, but it never hurts to try. Sitting your baby up to burp can also help wake her up, which may help her eat more actively on the second breast.
Cramps While Breastfeeding
In the days after delivery, you may feel uterine cramping when you breastfeed. This is completely normal and can last for several days or weeks. Cramps are a sign that your uterus is contracting and shrinking to its pre-pregnancy size.
If you have any concerns, reach out to your healthcare provider.
Cluster Feeding
Your baby may have a period of time during the day when she wants to nurse more often—sometimes every hour. This “cluster feeding” tends to happen in the evenings for the first 4-6 weeks of a baby’s life. As long as your baby is cluster feeding only during one part of the day, you can be sure that all is well and she is healthy.
Follow your baby’s lead, and offer her the breast whenever she is showing hunger cues. Cluster feeding helps your baby get what she needs and also boosts your milk supply. Talk with a lactation consultant or your pediatrician if your baby is cluster feeding for more than one stretch during the day or if you have any concerns about her feeding pattern.
Growth Spurts
As your baby grows and her body changes, her feeding patterns will likely change, too. You may hear these periods called “growth spurts,” and they are a normal part of a baby’s development.
During these times, your baby may spend 1-2 days nursing more often and for longer sessions. Some babies may be also be more fussy during this time. You can learn about calming your crying baby here.
Growth spurts are not always predictable, but they often happen around 1-3 weeks, around 4-6 weeks, at 3 months, and again at 6 months. As your baby grows, she’ll need to eat more, and these increased feedings help build your milk supply. If you feel your baby isn’t getting enough to eat, talk to your pediatrician and a lactation consultant.
Introducing a Bottle
Most lactation consultants recommend that you wait to offer a bottle until your baby is around 4 weeks old and breastfeeding is well established. Many families find it helpful to have someone other than mom, such as dad, grandma or another caregiver offer the first bottle. Learn how to help your baby move between the bottle and breast by downloading Bottle-Feeding Your Breastfed Baby: A Guide for Success.
Solid Foods
Breastmilk provides complete nutrition for the first 6 months.
Once your baby is able to sit up on her own, has good control of her head and neck and begins to show interest in food, you can start offering solid foods.
Great options for first foods are pureed or soft meats, fruits and vegetables. Breastmilk and formula will still provide the bulk of nutrition for your baby’s first year. Visit the Solid Foods page to learn more about introducing solids.
Weaning
Breastfeeding is recommended for the first year of your baby’s life and can continue for as long as you both wish. When you are ready to wean, do it slowly over time. Choose the breastfeeding or pumping session you or your baby like the least and remove it from your day. Give your body 3-5 days to adjust before removing the next feeding session.
This slow and steady approach to weaning helps your body and your baby transition more smoothly away from breastfeeding. Talk to your pediatrician about how to replace your breastmilk with formula or cow’s milk. (Cow’s milk is only recommended for babies 1 year of age or older.
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ways to decorate bird feeders made of wood, plastic and cardboard
Decorating a bird feeder is quite simple. Usually, paints, branches, cones and other improvised materials are used for this. However, only non-toxic products can be used in the work. In addition, it is advisable not to use too bright colors that can scare away birds.
Contents
- Design features of bird feeders
- How to decorate a bird feeder with your own hands
- How to decorate a bird feeder made of wood
- How to decorate a bird feeder made of plastic
- How to decorate a bird feeder made of cardboard
- How to decorate a bird feeder made of branches
- Photo of decorated bird feeders
- Conclusion
Design features of bird feeders
A variety of materials are used for decoration:
- gouache, watercolor and acrylic paints;
- wood glue;
- PVA glue;
- twine;
- cones;
- spruce branches;
- brushwood;
- dried rowan berries and other fruits.
When working on decorating a product, it is recommended to pay attention to a few useful tips:
- When processing with paint, glue, stain and other similar materials, the product must be allowed to dry. For birds, some paints or glue are dangerous, which release toxic substances when heated in the sun - therefore, it is better to clarify the composition of the product in advance.
- The decoration of the bird feeder must not contain dangerous elements - glass parts with sharp edges, metal parts (with burrs).
- It is also not recommended to use too bright and shiny decorations that can scare away birds.
- Decorative elements must not interfere with feeding.
- Since these crafts are used outdoors, decorative elements must be made of moisture-resistant materials.
Painting the surface with too bright colors may scare away birds
How to decorate a bird feeder with your own hands
The decor of a bird feeder can be very different - both improvised and purchased materials will do.
Plastic, wood and even cardboard are often used for decoration. How to decorate a bird feeder made of wood
The easiest way to decorate is to simply paint surfaces in soothing colors, creating a pattern, landscape or pattern. Most often, wooden structures are made in the form of a house. The roof can be made darker, in the manner of a tiled one, and the walls can be made lighter.
The house can be decorated with a wooden fence and drawings on any part of the surface
Tip! It is better to paint on wood using gouache or acrylic.
It is worth putting a layer of varnish on top - this will not only protect the paint from water, but also give the craft a particularly beautiful look - the drawing will look like a painting on wood.
Wooden construction is the most reliable option, decorating it, you can emphasize the solidity and strength of the product. For example, you can fold a small woodpile from twigs and fix it with glue in the corner of the product.
Branches can also be used for practical purposes - they make good perches for small birds. If you lay the branches in a row on the roof and glue the figures of the chicks, the feeder will look especially attractive. Crafts look especially beautiful when they are decorated with a pattern in folk style
Wood as a material gives great freedom for creativity. You can not only draw on it, but also burn it out. It is also possible to decorate the feeder with carved figures. It will take some time to make them, but they will “live” for a very long time.
Thanks to wooden figurines, the product looks very attractive
Also, wooden structures decorate:
- twine;
- birch bark;
- straw;
- small branches;
- spruce branches;
- leaves.
The branches are painted orange-brown to make them look more attractive. They can also be coated with a special varnish, let it dry, and then hang the craft on a tree.
Branches can be used to build a log house, lay out a roof with straw or wrap with twine - you get a realistic model of a village hut
The simplest construction of branches is 4 sticks at the corners with 4 crossbars. However, if you decorate them with brushwood, small branches, even this craft will look more attractive.
Natural decoration materials will attract birds more
Branches can be used to decorate wooden crafts. For example, they lay out roofs, gluing them to the surface in rows.
The roof can be made from a series of glued branches stacked tightly together
How to decorate a plastic bird feeder beautifully
Decorating a plastic bird feeder is very easy. For example, a bottle can be painted in one or more colors, put a picture on it. Another option is to paint a plastic bird feeder green and decorate it by gluing bottoms from other bottles on the sides. Thanks to this, you can create a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Other options for decorating the plastic feeder:
- draw an ornament;
- depict figurines - birds, animals, plants;
- draw a landscape, but if possible without bright, frightening colors.
A very interesting option is to decorate a plastic bottle with twine. First, I spread a layer of PVA glue on the surface, after which the twine is wound. Then you need to let the whole structure dry. You can additionally decorate it, decorate the roof with straw or place stickers on the surface, write funny inscriptions. The entrance is additionally reinforced with several layers of twine.
Decorate a plastic bird feeder with twine and straw
Attention! Glue must be spread gradually so that it does not have time to dry - for example, first on the bottom half, then on the top. After that, you need to let the feeder dry.
Decorate the feeder with other elements - cones, branches, brushwood, straw. On the roof of a large bottle, you can glue the bottom from a smaller container and stylize it as a second turret. This design can decorate a bird feeder well - the result is an original house.
In addition to bottles, other plastic containers are used to create feeders, such as mayonnaise or ice cream buckets.
You can decorate these feeders with a picture, ornament or pattern
Tip! From natural materials for decoration, you can also use rowan berries, spruce branches, dry foliage.
In most cases, wooden crafts are stylized like houses or turrets. This plot has not lost its relevance and attractiveness, because for some time the feeder really becomes a home for birds. However, even a banal idea can be brought to an original incarnation - for example, to design a structure in the form of a windmill.
On the other hand, it is not necessary to make the structure in the form of a house. You can use other options.
The bird feeder can be styled like an old-fashioned briefcase by making several bird openings in it.
How to decorate a cardboard bird feeder
Such crafts are short-lived, but very easy to make. And anyone can decorate them, especially children like to do it. Here are some simple options:
- The box itself can turn out to be quite beautiful - for example, from a gift, a parcel from the Russian Post - so you don’t have to decorate it additionally.
- The box can be stylized as a house by laying out “logs” with small twigs or ice cream sticks, or even better with pencils.
- You can make a craft in the form of a bird or other figurine.
- Can be styled like a traditional house with painted walls.
- Come up with a funny inscription.
How to decorate a branch bird feeder
The same materials are used to decorate branch crafts:
- rowan berries;
- small branches;
- needles;
- leaves;
- straw;
- twine and others.
Decoration with natural materials does not scare away birds and does not require additional costs
Photo of decorated bird feeders
There are a lot of options for decorating crafts. Here are just a few inspirational ideas to use.
- House with windows and skates on the roof.
- Feeder in the form of an open mouth.
- A tiled roof and elegant windows turn an ordinary craft into a "palace" model.
- Decorated with thick branches.
- Folk motifs.
- Decorated with twine and cones.
- The bottle decoration is also useful in practical terms: food will be poured onto a flat surface "automatically" as it is eaten.
- Letok is often stylized as a flower.
- Beehive model. Bees can be made from kinder surprises or other improvised materials.
- Relief decoration with wooden figurines.
Conclusion
Decorating a bird feeder is quite simple in practice. The easiest option is to draw a pattern or pattern. It can be applied to almost any surface - wood or plastic. It is advisable to think over the decoration at the stage of creating the product. Then you can immediately understand that the round notch will be stylized as a flower, next to leave a place for a drawing of a bee and other figures.
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