Deal with a crying baby

Infants cry only for five reasons:

1. Hunger
2. Too hot or cold
3. Diaper change - before or after feed
4. Gas
5. Not well

How to soothe a crying baby:

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Children Sleep Cycle

After 10 months, we can follow this 2-3-4 Pattern:

- The first nap starts at 2 hours from the time your baby wakes up.
- The 2nd nap starts 3 hours from the time nap 1 ends.
- Bedtime(so your bedtime routine starts earlier than this) is 4 hours from the time nap 2 ends.

Wake up : 7.00 am
Nap 1 : 9.00 am to 10.30am
Nap 2 : 1.30 pm to 3.30pm
Bedtime 7.30 pm

Pumping

Tips I received from lot of people:

1. Stop stressing.
2. Loads of skin to skin. Strip down to your bra and keep your bub in her diaper and hug her. Kiss her. Let her just lay on your chest. Multiple times a day when she is happy and active.
3. Try to keep latching. When she is well fed and active. And please go meet an LC immediately.
4. Drink 4 liters of water daily. And I mean actually 4 liters. Don't guess. Measure.
5. Pump on schedule. Not random times in the day.

* First switching to paced feeding and using slowest nipple teat, so mimic the milk flow as of breastmilk flow .

* lot of skin to skin . ( it works like a magic )

* Always trying to catch early hunger cues, because too hungry baby would not want to work on latch ( too hungry baby doesn’t want to work to get its food )

*Trying different nursing positions, my son wouldn’t latch in cradle position but would latch in football hold or laid back position , when not too hungry .

*Dreamfeeding.

* When I miss catching early hunger cues , I would sprinkle little expressed or formula milk on my nipple and try to latch baby ( of course he would cry his lungs out , but I would still try ). When this didn’t work , I would give him 30 ml of expressed or formula milk so he calms down a bit and try again .

* massaging breast and drinking some water just before feeding did help with milk flow .

*when my son latched and would unlatch soon due to slow letdown , I would try breast compression method so he keeps the latch on .

* most of the time I was too stressed , it was affecting my letdown ( my son was used to fastletdown at bottle , hence lazy to suck at breast ) , I started some relaxation exercises to calm myself down .


She can put garlic in milk boil and drink 2 glasses daily

Pumping output isn't an indicator of supply. Babies are more efficient in extracting milk than pump, even best pump can extract only 70% milk.

Weaning formula is very much possible. It will need lot of patience and determination. Looks like baby has bottle preference as milk drips from the bottle and baby is used to fast and easy flow of milk from bottle. At breast baby needs to put an efforts. Lot of skin to skin will help. She can try dream feeding. Switching to slowest flow nipple, milk. Shouldn't drip from the bottle if turn upside down and following paced feeding method.

Galact won't work unless breast are emptied at regular intervals. Plesee ask her to check if the flange size is correct, check #bsimflange

#bsimweaningoffformula #bsimweaningformula will be a good read

Try Zandu Shatavari powder supplement..it is increasing my milk supply like a miracle

Tell her to eat drumsticks, galact granule, lactare & drink lots of fluids jeera water,  milk etc.

 I found breast compressions helped increase amount of expressed bm. Also, short term use of domperidone tablets helped increase milk supply to some extent by releasing prolactin. Its available over the counter in India by the name domstal

Tummy Massage for Colic Infant

Learnings of a new mom!

If your child is having trouble sleeping, few points to take sure:

• If your infant is a heavy wetter, or its winter, put them on a diaper during day time as well.
• After each feed, if they are falling asleep, let them sleep. Don't burp. Burp only if they are uncomfortable or awake. Keep them on your shoulders for 10 mins and make them sleep. 
• If you see they are not sleeping by their own, make sure you put them to sleep by holding them for naps, soothing them, gentle swaddling them in your arms. 
• Hold the baby for all naps. Let her sleep in your lap. Or while you're holding and rocking her.

Sleep cues of the baby:

• Bicycling their legs or pushing them out straight
• Arching back
• Waving arms around as though pushing you away with their hands and fingers wide open
• Hiccuping not related to feeding
• Sneezing
• Tongue thrusting  - this is poking tongue in and out 
• Gaze aversion or staring into space, at, tv, lights etc

Late signs of sleeping: 

• Rubbing eyes or rubbing their face into you
• Pulling their hair, your hair, their ears, their blankets, or clothes etc
• Yawning 

Too late sign of sleeping:

• Crying

Colic/Gassy baby

• Remember to give it half an hour before the infant's crying time
• Try colic aid.
• Decolic infant drops- Doctor suggested that it can be given 4-5 times a day. It did not work in my case.
• Ajwain Water - Tulsi leaves (2/3), water half cup, ajwain a pinch, jaggery. Boil everything and reduce it to a spoonful. Avoid giving it before 4 months.
• Homemade gripe water
• Neopeptine once a day
• Tummy time - helps to release gas
• Tummy massage 
• Fold the baby's ankles towards stomach such that thighs put pressure on the stomach. Push it up and down few times, it really relieves infant's tummy.
• My doctor gave Protectic baby drops (Probiotic). Really helpful for tummy relief.

For loose motion:

• Enterogermina

For fever:

• Sumol drops - 5 drops only if the fever is above 100

For nose block:

• Nasoclear
• Solspre - Insert into nose and press the nozzle. Immediately wipe the node with a cloth and take out the mucus. 
• Ear bud - wet the bud in nasoclear and clean the nose.

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Homemade gripe water for colic/gassy infant

Ajwain 1/4 tsp
Fennel seed 1tbsp
Zeera 1/2tbsp
Water 2glass
Jeggry 1/2tbsp(optional)

Soak all ingredients in water about 3 to 4 hr. Boil till water reduced by its half. Cool it. Sieve it and give twice in a day.

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No preservatives

Try to make fresh