Going back to work again!
No matter how long the maternity leave is, most mothers will eventually return to work.
Mothers who insist on breast-feeding will encounter such a thorny problem at this time:
After work, I can’t feed everyone, but what if the baby doesn’t accept the bottle?
Of course, the experience of using the bottle is not as good as that of the mother sucking warm and soft breasts. It is normal that the baby will not accept it for a while.
How can the baby accept the bottle? Today, we invited nurse mother Wang Yanhong, who, with her many years of work experience and personal experience, will tell you how to make the baby smoothly transition from “pro-feeding” to “bottle-feeding” so that mothers who are ready to return to work will no longer struggle.
Obstacles to Returning to Work: Babies Refuse to Use Bottles
In today’s society, working mothers have long been a new term. Many mothers said that even returning to work does not mean giving up breast-feeding, but it is really difficult to do so.
Recently, the maternity leave of an old classmate of mine expired. Although she was reluctant to leave the baby, she obediently prepared breast pump, milk storage tools and all kinds of milk bottles returned from the sea and returned to clinical practice.
However, in the first few days of her official work, she was in a lot of trouble. She successfully passed all kinds of barriers such as chasing milk, milk swelling and chapped nipples. At the moment, she asked distressed questions:
I have already made all kinds of preparations, but how is it harder than imagined to be a breast-feeding mother?
It turns out that her baby is very clingy. Apart from being held by her mother like a koala, she only loves her mother’s breasts and refuses to suck milk from a bottle.
Mother’s warm and soft breasts are the baby’s favorite. This is not a bottle that can be compared.
The family was helpless, fearing that the baby would starve, so they had to feed the baby breast milk mouthful by mouthful with a small spoon. After comforting her, they immediately called for help and urged her to hurry home from work.
The old classmate who has just returned to work in the ward has not adjusted her rhythm and the baby does not cooperate, leaving her who has just returned to work at a loss as to what to do.
Facing the baby’s attachment to pro-feeding, we should fully understand it and try to resolve it in the following steps.
To do these four things well, let the baby receive bottle feeding.
1. Let the baby get used to bottle feeding first.
Facing the distress of my old classmates, I told her that she was worried about the process from pro-feeding to bottle-feeding.
The training of bottle feeding should be gradual and orderly, starting from 2 ~ 3 weeks before work. As long as the baby can eat full milk once with the bottle, without frequent training, keep the frequency of practicing two or three times a week, so that the baby is familiar with the bottle and willing to accept it.
2. Invite experienced people to train bottle feeding
Facing the baby who pesters her mother like a koala, I advised my old classmates not to take the lead this time. Because the mother who is accustomed to kissing and feeding is not very good at using the bottle, on the contrary, the baby will feel more confused because he can smell the smell of his mother.
3. Don’t remind your baby of the good memories of nursing.
Old classmates usually like to sit on the sofa in the living room and listen to music while nursing. I reminded her not to do this when nursing bottles.
At the beginning of training bottle feeding, try to avoid using the most commonly used pro-feeding posture and the most familiar feeding place for the baby, and don’t remind the baby of the usual feeding scene.
Once the baby feels that he seems to think of the warm scenes on weekdays and starts to refuse to cooperate, he must immediately change the posture and place of bottle feeding.
4. Simulate pro-feeding with feeding bottles.
I told my old classmates that if you want your baby to be willing to accept bottle feeding, you still have to make your baby feel that bottle feeding is also a kind of enjoyment and eat comfortably.
Therefore, we should try our best to simulate the milk flow rate, nipple connection mode and the warm and soft feeling during pro-feeding.
We need to slow down the flow rate of the bottle and find a nipple close to the shape of the mother’s nipple. It is best to soak it in hot water for a while before use to make the nipple softer and closer to the shape of the mother. In addition, we can also use steamed bread and other things, hollow out the middle and put it into the bottle, and then simulate the normal feeding posture.
Of course, this process still needs to avoid the intervention of the mother.
Eh, soft, warm, drink or the original taste, although hemp hemp is not around, but the feeling of eating seems quite good!
Under such [persuasion], most babies can still slowly accept bottle feeding.
If the baby still hesitates and repeats, mothers can also try to use the [confused milk] method of [constant response to changes] to strengthen training, that is, when the baby is half asleep and half awake, or when it meets the [dim sum milk] time when the baby does not eat and will not be very noisy, take the opportunity to feed with the bottle, believing that the baby will still be willing to understand the mother’s painstaking efforts.
The baby still refuses to use the bottle, what should I do?
Old classmates immediately started bottle feeding training, but looked at the baby’s fierce resistance to the bottle is still a little worried. Many exclusively breast-fed babies rely on their mothers not a little bit, and the old classmates’ babies are absolutely dead set on her. What if they can’t cheat?
If it is really impossible to feed with the bottle, it is not necessary.
Straw feeding, spoon feeding, or directly transition to cup feeding, is also a way. Although it looks troublesome, there will be no need to practice drinking with cups in the future. Many mothers of older babies are still worried about how to let their babies master this skill.
While practicing bottle feeding, don’t forget to keep kissing
Every day before and after work for the first meal, you should feed yourself, and the night milk should not be stopped as much as possible. Once the rest day comes, you should change to the all-weather feeding mode again. Otherwise, the sucking frequency and intensity are not enough, and even if the combination of work and rest is achieved, the milk quantity may be reduced.
As a working mother, children and work, both hands should be grasped and both hands should be hard. How to balance the two ends of the balance under the dual status is also a big knowledge, requiring enough love, patience and wisdom. We are also willing to help all mothers to walk more firmly and more confident on the feeding road.