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Basics of Breastfeeding Part 5 Baby Feeding Cues
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Basics of Breastfeeding: • Part 1: The Benefits of Breastfeeding - • Basics of Breastfeeding, Part 1: The ... • Part 2: Latching and Positioning Your Baby - • Basics of Breastfeeding, Part 2: Latc... • Part 3: Preventing Sore Nipples - • Basics of Breastfeeding, Part 3: Prev... • Part 4: Knowing Your Baby is Getting Enough - • Basics of Breastfeeding, Part 4: Know... • Part 5: Baby Feeding Cues - • Basics of Breastfeeding, Part 5: Baby... • In the beginning, your baby needs to eat about every 2 to 3 hours, sometimes sooner if your baby is showing feeding cues. So how do you know that your baby is ready to eat?Your baby will go through stages of feeding cues to let you know that they’re ready. In the early cues, your baby looks like a little bird. They’ll start to lick their lips. And these are very subtle cues, so you’ll need to watch for them. Your baby may lick their lips, and open their mouth, and turn to the side like a little bird looking for something to eat. So it’s in these cues that you want to start getting ready. So take good care of yourself, get into position, build up your pillows. • The mid cues is when your baby is saying, “I’m really hungry and I’m really ready to eat.” This is when your baby is actively sucking on fingers, or chewing on their blanket, or trying to shove a whole fist in their mouth. This is the time when you want to be actively working on latching your baby. So this is when your baby will be patient enough that if you don’t get a good latch the first time, you can take your baby off and keep on trying till it does feel good. • The late hunger cue is crying. Crying is when your baby was saying, “I was telling you when I was interested with the early cues; I was telling you I was really ready to go with the mid cues.” And now, this is when your baby is saying they are over-hungry. Now, we all get there too. We just call it “hangry”, which is the combination of hungry and angry. Now, we know that when we get to that point, we’re just going to eat anything in sight. Babies don’t always know that, so once they get to over-hungry, you need to pick up your baby. Skin-to-skin is my favorite way to help calm a baby. So bring your baby right up to your chest, snuggle them up, and help them calm down and relax, so that they can reset and get to the beginning of hunger cues. Then your baby will be calm enough to latch on and take a good feeding. • So when we say that babies need to eat about every 2 to 3 hours, that’s the same thing as saying 8 to 12 times in a whole day. Now, that may seem like a lot, but your baby is learning this new skill and their tummy is very tiny, so it’s only the size of a small marble, initially. Over the next few days, then your baby’s tummy will be the size of a shooter marble up to ping pong ball size. By the end of a week, your baby’s tummy size is about a chicken egg or an Easter egg, however you want to think about that. And between 1 week to 2 weeks, your baby can eat about 1 to 3 ounces at a time.
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