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IS BABY FEEDING OK?
Hi,
My baby boy is six months old, he is 15 ponds.he is breastfeeding child, but i'm sure how much he takes breastmilk, as i'm not giving him bottle. i tried my best to give him atleast one bottle but he don't know how to suck it so he is just taking breastmilk according to his wish....now i'm giving him 5-6Tbs rice cereales in powder milk....and breastmilk ...that's it in a day. from when should i start another things like baby food and juices, because he will surely decerease the amount of milk with another things.and is there any special tonics for babies for good health. am i doing ok? thanks for reply. cheers |
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javalearner wrote:
Hi, My baby boy is six months old, he is 15 ponds. OK, but realize that stating "he's 15 pounds" means nothing without a context. Saying something like, "he was born at 6lbs 5oz and is now 15lbs" might mean something. now i'm giving him 5-6Tbs rice cereales in powder milk.... Why are you using powdered milk? You mean just plain powdered milk, or formula? I would not use powdered milk, as a 6-month-old is too young for cow's milk products. Breastmilk or water would be much better to mix in cereal. from when should i start another things like baby food and juices, You can start baby fruits and vegetables any time, one every few days so if there's a reaction you'll know what caused it. Cereal is not even necessary as a first food; I'd actually be more inclined to start with vegetables or mashed banana. Avocado is a really good first food as it's got lots of the good kind of fat. Juice is unnecessary. I consider juice a treat. It's little more than sugar water and it doesn't have any place in the diet of a child under one year. and is there any special tonics for babies for good health. No. You mean like vitamin supplements? They aren't necessary for a breastfed baby. Don't assume that he will dramatically decrease the amount he nurses. Solid food in the first year is meant to be about learning, not as a significant source of nutrition. am i doing ok? Sounds like it to me, although I would seriously rethink using powdered milk to mix in cereal. It's really not necessary to know how many ounces of breastmilk he's getting as long as he has plenty of wet diapers. -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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"iphigenia" wrote in message ... (snip) You can start baby fruits and vegetables any time, one every few days so if there's a reaction you'll know what caused it. Cereal is not even necessary as a first food; I'd actually be more inclined to start with vegetables or mashed banana. Avocado is a really good first food as it's got lots of the good kind of fat. The one benefit of baby cereals is that they provide iron, something which I have read breastfed babies start needing around 6 months - some earlier some later, but around then. My DS *loves* avocado - great and easy baby food to make! I would also reconsider using powdered milk - if it's powdered formula, that's okay, but babies arent' supposed to get cow's milk before 1 year old. Patty |
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"iphigenia" wrote in message ... Patty Reali wrote: The one benefit of baby cereals is that they provide iron, something which I have read breastfed babies start needing around 6 months - some earlier some later, but around then. Actually, it's this: Babies are born with enough iron stored up to last them for about six months. After that, they start needing to get it from their diet. Fortunately, breastmilk has iron. It's not a whole lot (a fact that formula mfrs like to exploit...), but it's very well absorbed, so there doesn't *need* to be a lot. Especially since excess iron is not benign. I wanted to ask this then forgot. Now is a good opportunity. If mom has borderline iron herself, is it beneficial to baby for mom to take a supplement? Formula-fed babies do tend to need the extra iron contained in cereal. Formula's got a lot of iron packed into it, but not very much is absorbed. Basically, FF babies get bombarded with a whole lot of iron, between formula and cereal, in the hope that enough of it gets absorbed. So while cereal for iron is a very valid argument for FF babies, it's really not generally applicable to breastfed babies. It's another instance in which FF as the cultural norm has misinformed us as to what BF babies need. -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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Stephanie and Tim wrote:
I wanted to ask this then forgot. Now is a good opportunity. If mom has borderline iron herself, is it beneficial to baby for mom to take a supplement? It wouldn't hurt to get the baby finger-pricked. But generally speaking, Nature doesn't care that much about the mother. You're biologically important only insofar as you need to stay alive to protect your offspring. So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on. That's why women in famine-stricken countries can breastfeed. Mostly, good nutrition will help the mother feel well. However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk. Since anemia is really not good for developing children to have, it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep track of the nursling of an anemic mother's iron levels. I don't believe in just giving iron drops without checking blood levels, since too *much* iron is also dangerous - but paying attention to the child's blood iron is a good idea. -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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"iphigenia" wrote in message ... Stephanie and Tim wrote: I wanted to ask this then forgot. Now is a good opportunity. If mom has borderline iron herself, is it beneficial to baby for mom to take a supplement? It wouldn't hurt to get the baby finger-pricked. But generally speaking, Nature doesn't care that much about the mother. You're biologically important only insofar as you need to stay alive to protect your offspring. What I meant is the iron in the supplement that I would be giving to myself going to get passed on to the baby in breatmilk. So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on. That's why women in famine-stricken countries can breastfeed. Mostly, good nutrition will help the mother feel well. However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk. Since anemia is really not good for developing children to have, it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep track of the nursling of an anemic mother's iron levels. I don't believe in just giving iron drops without checking blood levels, since too *much* iron is also dangerous - but paying attention to the child's blood iron is a good idea. Well I meant to give ME the iron supplements and then breastfeed under the thought that the milk would have the right iron in it. I act like a filter so to speak. I have not actually had the baby yet, but am notoriously deficient. S -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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iphigenia wrote in message
... But generally speaking, Nature doesn't care that much about the mother. You're biologically important only insofar as you need to stay alive to protect your offspring. So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on. That's why women in famine-stricken countries can breastfeed. Mostly, good nutrition will help the mother feel well. However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk. I've wondered about this. The nutrients in breastmilk have to come from somewhere. Your body can't make something out of nothing, to put into your milk. So I'm confused between where you said "So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on." and "However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk." I've seen it said here countless times that breastmilk is always the perfect food for an infant, but I'm not sure it is. It's still a long way better than any formula, of course. I just think there is a lot of middle ground between it always being "perfect", and the mother lacking a nutrient to the point that the baby doesn't get enough. IOW I think that breastfeeding moms do need to watch their own diet more carefully than might otherwise be assumed from statements sometimes seen here. For example I don't eat any citrus, and have to consciously see to it that I either eat foods with vitamin C in them, or supplement. Vitamin C needs to be replenished daily, so if I don't have vitamin C in my body, it's not going to be in my breastmilk either. Another example, at my last midwife appointment, she gave me a copy of a report that says women in the US have much lower levels of DHA fat in their bodies, and in their breastmilk, than women in other countries where seafood is a larger part of the diet. DHA is very important to eye and brain development, in the third trimester and during breastfeeding. There has been such a public health push in the US over the last 50 years or so on how bad cholesterol and fat are, that people don't eat eggs and organ meats anywhere near as much as they used to, and many women avoid fish now due to mercury scares, so we have ended up lacking in this nutrient. There could be plenty of other examples that we don't currently know about. -- Cheryl S. Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 3 mo. And a boy, EDD 4.Sept Cleaning the house while your children are small is like shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing. |
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Cheryl S. wrote:
I've wondered about this. The nutrients in breastmilk have to come from somewhere. Your body can't make something out of nothing, to put into your milk. So I'm confused between where you said "So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on." and "However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk." I don't see the conflict between those two statements. The first statement is what normally happens, the second is what might happen in the case of extreme deficiency. -- iphigenia www.tristyn.net |
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"Cheryl S." wrote in message ... iphigenia wrote in message ... But generally speaking, Nature doesn't care that much about the mother. You're biologically important only insofar as you need to stay alive to protect your offspring. So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on. That's why women in famine-stricken countries can breastfeed. Mostly, good nutrition will help the mother feel well. However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk. I've wondered about this. The nutrients in breastmilk have to come from somewhere. Your body can't make something out of nothing, to put into your milk. So I'm confused between where you said "So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on." and "However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk." I've seen it said here countless times that breastmilk is always the perfect food for an infant, but I'm not sure it is. It's still a long way better than any formula, of course. I just think there is a lot of middle ground between it always being "perfect", and the mother lacking a nutrient to the point that the baby doesn't get enough. IOW I think that breastfeeding moms do need to watch their own diet more carefully than might otherwise be assumed from statements sometimes seen here. For example I don't eat any citrus, and have to consciously see to it that I either eat foods with vitamin C in them, or supplement. Vitamin C needs to be replenished daily, so if I don't have vitamin C in my body, it's not going to be in my breastmilk either. Another example, at my last midwife appointment, she gave me a copy of a report that says women in the US have much lower levels of DHA fat in their bodies, and in their breastmilk, than women in other countries where seafood is a larger part of the diet. DHA is very important to eye and brain development, in the third trimester and during breastfeeding. There has been such a public health push in the US over the last 50 years or so on how bad cholesterol and fat are, that people don't eat eggs and organ meats anywhere near as much as they used to, and many women avoid fish now due to mercury scares, so we have ended up lacking in this nutrient. There could be plenty of other examples that we don't currently know about. -- Cheryl S. Mom to Julie, 2 yr., 3 mo. And a boy, EDD 4.Sept Cleaning the house while your children are small is like shoveling the sidewalk while it's still snowing. This sums up my thoughts more or less exactly. S |
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Yeah, I am very spotty on the details, but I heard a TV report that
vegans who didn't take a nutrient (can't remember which nutrient) had developmental delays in their bf babies. IMHO moderation in everything including moderation will probably keep the diet rounded enough. KC "Cheryl S." wrote in message ... iphigenia wrote in message ... But generally speaking, Nature doesn't care that much about the mother. You're biologically important only insofar as you need to stay alive to protect your offspring. So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on. That's why women in famine-stricken countries can breastfeed. Mostly, good nutrition will help the mother feel well. However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk. I've wondered about this. The nutrients in breastmilk have to come from somewhere. Your body can't make something out of nothing, to put into your milk. So I'm confused between where you said "So your body will make sure that the breastmilk it manufactures is complete, then whatever's left over is what you live on." and "However, if the mother is severely lacking in a nutrient, there may not be enough of that nutrient for it to be sufficiently represented in milk." I've seen it said here countless times that breastmilk is always the perfect food for an infant, but I'm not sure it is. It's still a long way better than any formula, of course. I just think there is a lot of middle ground between it always being "perfect", and the mother lacking a nutrient to the point that the baby doesn't get enough. IOW I think that breastfeeding moms do need to watch their own diet more carefully than might otherwise be assumed from statements sometimes seen here. For example I don't eat any citrus, and have to consciously see to it that I either eat foods with vitamin C in them, or supplement. Vitamin C needs to be replenished daily, so if I don't have vitamin C in my body, it's not going to be in my breastmilk either. Another example, at my last midwife appointment, she gave me a copy of a report that says women in the US have much lower levels of DHA fat in their bodies, and in their breastmilk, than women in other countries where seafood is a larger part of the diet. DHA is very important to eye and brain development, in the third trimester and during breastfeeding. There has been such a public health push in the US over the last 50 years or so on how bad cholesterol and fat are, that people don't eat eggs and organ meats anywhere near as much as they used to, and many women avoid fish now due to mercury scares, so we have ended up lacking in this nutrient. There could be plenty of other examples that we don't currently know about. |
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