3 strokes to accelerate "no night milk"! Help you get rid of the nightmare of feeding in the middle of the night

In the face of a newborn, regardless of day and night, the most painful thing should be to get up in the middle of the night to nurse. How to effectively help your baby quit night milk? Let's take a look at the novice parents who don't get enough sleep!

Why does the baby need night milk?

For babies from one to three months old, drinking night milk is based on physiological needs. Jiang Mingzhou, director of the neonatal intensive care unit of Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, explained that blood glucose (blood sugar) is particularly important for babies because it is an important energy source for the brain. If it is severe hypoglycemia, it may cause brain damage. However, one to three months old babies have less sugar storage in their liver, so they need to drink milk regularly to maintain blood sugar stability.

Breast-feeding in the middle of the night is very tiring, and evening is a good time to stop breastfeeding.

Director Jiang Mingzhou said that physically, after three months, the baby can reduce night milk. In addition to adequate liver sugar storage, with the child's gradual development, the child's waking time and activity during the day will increase. Parents can interact with their babies at this time, improve their sleep time at night, reduce the situation of day and night inversion, and then reduce the chance of night milk.

Three methods of speeding up abstinence from night milk

1. For babies of two or three months, the interval between two meals before going to bed can be shortened.

Younger babies are not recommended to have a full meal, because the baby's stomach appetite is fixed for two or three months. If there is a particularly large meal, it may disrupt the baby's eating rules. Director Jiang Mingzhou suggested that the interval between two meals before going to bed can be shortened, which can give the baby a chance not to drink milk in the middle of the night.

2. For babies aged four to six months, you can add non-staple food to a meal before going to bed.

Director Jiang Mingzhou said that during this period, the baby's liver has sufficient sugar storage, and the non-staple food feels full. Adding before going to bed can reduce the chance of night milk.

Don't feed the baby just because he is crying.

In fact, the baby crying is not necessarily hunger, so it is recommended to appease the baby first. Night milk is a reassuring habit for breast-fed babies. This situation can only prolong the baby's sleep time at night by increasing the amount of activity during the day.

Abstaining from night milk is closely related to the baby's sleep.

Director Jiang Mingzhou said that in fact, the habit of night milk is closely related to the baby's sleep. It is suggested that babies over three months can start to develop a fixed sleep ritual and a fixed sleep time. Some parents will say that you must sleep with your baby in your arms, or he will keep crying. In fact, sometimes it is not necessary to hold the baby to sleep when he is crying, as long as the parents are around to make the baby feel safe, otherwise it may make the baby easier and more sensitive. If we can establish a bedtime ceremony, let the baby know that it is bedtime at night, and don't make big moves with the baby, we can let the child have a better sleep and reduce the situation of night milk.

Consultation/Director of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Jiangmingzhou

Interview with the author/Xu Yijin

Photography/Pandora Professional Children Photography