Baby diary: The four-week-old is on a diet

Baby diary: The four-week-old is on a diet
Baby diary: The four-week-old is on a diet
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Before many get upset, of course it's not that I'm going to fast the little girl, it's just that the pediatrician threw a tantrum when it turned out that instead of the average weekly gain of 200-250 grams, Manka gained 400 grams.

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This is also due to the fact that after the vomiting virus, I started to replace the reduced amount of breast milk with formula. The kid is so used to it that even though he suckles the amount appropriate for his age and weight, he screams and demands the usual addition. His stupid mother gives it to him so that the poor thing doesn't starve. Well, this has to be changed if I still want to raise my height without muscle fever in a month.

It all started when my milk dried up so much due to the vomiting virus that I managed to extract only 50-60 milliliters of it during one feeding - which was obviously not enough for the baby. So I started supplementing it with formula, which he willingly accepted. Then, as the days went by, the amount of milk started to increase and reached 100-110 ml, which should have been enough, but I continued to offer him the formula on a sure, sure basis, and he didn't object if there was too little replacement (20-30 ml), he wanted to starve to death after half an hour and screamed until I stuffed his stomach again. The situation escalated until, after 100 ml of breast milk, the four-week-old baby was pushing almost as much formula into himself - it's no wonder that he became as round as a loaf of bread in a matter of days.

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Our pediatrician said that maybe we shouldn't supplement, since if he eats seven times a day, based on his weight, the available breast milk should be enough. This is true in theory, but in practice the situation is the same as before: if he doesn't get the extra ration of formula, he starts screaming so much that even the window panes shake. (And my daughters are begging me to turn down the volume because they can't hear the TV.) It seems that weaning doesn't work overnight, so now I'm trying the gradual reduction of formula and drinking water between meals. So far with little success.

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Thanks to the longer sleep at night, when feeding at around 3-4 in the morning, the milk tank is so full that the child fills itself to the brim, and 3-4 hours later, when breastfeeding in the morning, it doesn't even need to be replenished. (Well, it would be hard to get him to stumble into the kitchen and mess with the formula in the middle of the night. It proved to me again that breastfeeding is much easier than formula feeding.) But in the evening, there is still a great need for the extra portion of food. Blame it on the squirrels, but I continue to give him supplements, unable to listen to his desperate, demanding screams for two hours before each feeding. Of course, I try to reduce the amount every day and I hope that sooner or later only breast milk will be enough for him.

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