Guide to neonatal feeding

For all novice parents, the birth of a newborn will certainly bring joy and excitement, but how can we take good care of the newborn, especially how many milliliters of milk powder the newborn eats at a meal? On this issue, many novice parents actually don't know. In order to avoid the situation that newborns don't have enough to eat or eat too much, here are some small series for everyone.

Take it seven or eight times a day.

Newborns need to eat about 7 to 8 times a day, and they should follow the principle of gradual progress. In the first week, the amount of milk is usually in the range of 30 ~ 60ml each time, and parents should feed the newborn according to its food intake.

The amount of milk is increasing gradually.

In the second week, newborns will eat a little more than when they were born, and they can eat 40 to 90 ml of milk at a time. When a newborn is half a month old, that is, three weeks old, it can eat 90 to 100 ml of milk at a time and about 500 ml of milk every day. At this time, the newborn has been breastfeeding for 90 to 120 ml in the fourth week.

Feeding interval

The younger the newborn, the more diligent it is. Breast milk generally lasts shorter than milk powder, so breast milk is a little more diligent than milk powder. Generally speaking, if the mother's milk is very or relatively sufficient, the newborn can eat enough, and a breast-feeding meal can last for about two hours. So in most cases, newborns are breastfed every two hours, while milk powder can be fed every two to two and a half hours.