Switching from one mixture to another

In the first months of a child's life, a whole parade of boxes with mixtures can be lined up on your kitchen shelves, as long as you experiment with different brands before finding one that will please the child most, and the disorders will cause the least. Sometimes it's all about taste. Sometimes it's all about cooking: your child can prefer a liquid or dry form of the same mixture. Here are the signs that your child may have an allergy or an intolerance to a particular mixture:

• crying after feeding;

• vomiting after almost every feeding;

• uninterrupted diarrhea or constipation;

• colic after feeding, accompanied by swelling, tension and tenderness of the abdomen;

• irritable behavior during the day and / or frequent awakenings at night;

• red, rough as sandpaper, rashes, especially on the face and / or around the anus;

• frequent colds and / or inflammation of the ear.

If your child constantly has one or more of these symptoms, change the mixture after consulting a doctor.

How much mixes your child drinks depends on his weight and growth rate, metabolism, body type and appetite. The following recommendations for the volume of the mixture are designed to meet the basic nutritional needs of your child. The appetite of a child can vary from day to day, and sometimes it can drink more or less than the average recommended volume.

Determining how much mixture to give a baby in the period from birth to six months, you can use the following golden rule: 125-150 ml per kilogram per day. If your child weighs 4.5 kg, for example, he can drink 600-750 ml per day. Do not think that your newborn will drink this amount immediately after birth. Many newborns in the first week need only 30-60 ml per each feeding, and that's how much they drink. By the age of a month, most

Golden rule of artificial feeding: 125-150 milliliters per kilogram of child weight per day.

of children takes 90-120 ml per each feeding. And from two to six months, children can drink 120-180 ml for feeding. From six months to a year, children can drink even 240 ml for feeding and, depending on the amount of complementary foods, usually drink three to four bottles a day. Sometimes a child just wants to drink, but is not hungry at all. Suggest him a bottle of water. If the child refuses to empty the water, give the mixture. Since mixtures are more concentrated than breast milk, we recommend that parents give their child at least one bottle of water per day( children who receive breasts do not need additional water).