Is Your Fussy Baby The Victim Of Bad Breastfeeding Advice?
Are you and your baby the victim of bad breastfeeding advice? Have you been told to make sure the your feed your baby from both breasts at every single feeding? You may want to stop…especially if you have baby with colic.
Why? A mother’s milk changes during each breastfeeding. One of the ways in which it changes is that the longer your little one feeds on a breast, the higher the fat content of the breast milk.
If new mothers switch the baby from one breast to the other before the baby has "finished" the first side, the baby may get a relatively low amount of fat during that feeding. Don’t be fooled by modern thinking…that is NOT good! By doing this you are actually giving the baby too few calories, and thus needing to breastfeed more often.
In addition, if the baby takes in a lot of milk, she may spit up. Her body didn’t need the quantity, but needed the calories she would have got from the hind milk.
What is worse it that the baby’s stomach will now empty quicker, and a large load of milk sugar will arrive in the baby’s intestines all at once. The proteins in the stomach may not be able to digest so much milk sugar at once. This will cause your baby to have some symptoms of lactose intolerance--crying, gas, and explosive, watery, greenish bowel movements. This may occur even during the feeding.
These babies are not lactose intolerant. They are just victims of incorrect breastfeeding coaching and a lack of awareness by new mothers.
