The issue of proper nutrition of newborns is one of the most relevant for young parents. Every mom wants to know if her baby is developing correctly, whether he has enough nutrition and how he feels. To find answers to these questions, you need to know how much the baby should eat and how many times a day he should eat.
Pediatricians developed certain rates of weight gain and growth for children under the age of one year. Comparing the increase in weight of your baby with these norms, you can determine how well he feels and everything is in order.
How much should a newborn baby eat?
There is no uniform norm in grams for newborns. The optimal increase in weight in the first ten days after the birth of the baby, you can calculate, based on its weight at the time of birth. To determine how many grams of food a child should eat, one should use the simple formula: A multiply by B. Where A is the number of days of a child's life and B = 70 if the baby's weight at birth was less than 3200 grams, or B = 80 if the weight of the baby at birth was more than 3200 grams.
How much should a month old baby have?
Since all children are born with different weight and height, young parents tend to begin to focus on generally accepted norms, starting with the month of the baby's age.
Children aged one to two months during this period should increase their weight by approximately 20%. In a children's polyclinic, children are weighed at each visit, that is, twice a month. Since babies can eat a different amount of food every day, minor deviations from this rate are not cause for concern.
To more accurately determine how many grams a month-old baby should eat, it is also necessary to take into account his state of health, the type of food (mixture or breast milk), activity. As a rule, during the second month of life, children gain from 600 to 1000 grams of weight.
How much milk should the baby eat?
In infants who are naturally breastfed, that is, they are fed breast milk, deviations from the norms of weight gain are extremely rare. Earlier, infants were recommended to feed once every three hours. Modern pediatricians and WHO insist on feeding on demand. To date, the question "How many times should a child eat a day?" When breastfeeding, is irrelevant. Experts argue that an infant, can not significantly weight or nedobirat if his main food is mother's milk. Parents should not worry and look for an answer to the question of how many times a baby needs to eat if the baby looks good and actively behaves.
If the mother feeds the baby with breast milk, it is difficult to determine how many grams the baby is eating. It is possible to orientate only to his gain in weight.
How much should the infant eat?
If, for one reason or another, the mother is forced to wean the baby from her breast, then the norm of weight gain should be paid much more attention. In infants on artificial feeding an order of magnitude is more common in shortages and weight cuts than in children who are breastfeeding.
When feeding the baby with porridges and mixtures, the mother should strictly calculate the amount necessary for the child. Monthly rates of weight gain, with the help of which you can determine how much the infant needs to consume the mixture or porridge:
- from 2 to 4 months - the weight of the baby should increase by 1/6 part of its weight;
- from 4 to 6 months - the weight of the baby should increase by 1/7;
- from 6 to 12 months - the weight of the baby should increase by 1 / 8-1 / 9.
Up to 5 months of babies it is recommended to feed 6-7 times a day. The biggest break should be
How many times must I have a child at the age of 1 year?
After the end of the "infants" period in the life of the child, there is no urgent need to calculate how much the child at the age of 1 year is eating. Pediatricians recommend adhering to the norm of the daily volume of food for children from one year to 1.5 years - 1000-1200 ml per day. The number of meals can be reduced up to 4 times. The daily calorific value of nutrition in children of this age should be 1250-1300 kcal. During the day it is distributed as follows: breakfast contains 30%, lunch - 35%, lunch - 15% and dinner -20%.