In the first four months the baby should double their birth weight, so you need to eat much and often. Each baby follows its own rhythms of sleep and food, whether it is performed by breast and bottle.
Even if the baby has a great capacity to adapt, you may experience some digestive problems that require attention:
Muguet
This fungal disease (thrush) is characterized in that the baby has a whitish spots, as dregs of milk on the lips and inside the mouth (gums, tongue, palate or inside of the cheeks). This fungal infection causes irritation and discomfort in the mouth, preventing normal food.
In these cases, the pediatrician prescribes an antifungal treatment based on local or general because the thrush may spread to the buttocks. It is also very important to follow a strict physical care during the 10 or 15 days that the problem may persist.
The baby spits up and eject small amounts of milk from the esophagus or stomach with no nausea or contractions of muscles of the abdomen. It is usual in the first weeks of life and will not affect weight gain. Regurgitation usually decrease with increasing age and disappear by eight months.
Regurgitation has nothing in common with the vomiting of large amounts of food accompanied by nausea in infants who have not vomited earlier. This problem requires medical consultation.
Esophageal Pain
When this occurs, the baby refuses to take food, regurgitates twists and easily. You may have abdominal pain while eating and at the end of the outlet, belching are acidic and irritate the lining of the esophagus.
The doctor prescribes a treatment given before or after feedings and advises parents that after eating the food will hold the baby upright while holding the head and back. It is also advisable to sleep with his head a little higher than the rest of the body.
Hiccup
Usually occurs after taking a few minutes and persist. There is no danger. It may be that the food reaching the stomach, it will distend and cause a reflex of the diaphragm, which is the muscle separating the chest and abdomen.
Sudden refusal to eat and drink
The baby refuses the breast or bottle. She cries, twisting his legs shaking and vomiting. When it appears to be calm, pale exhausted and writhe in pain again. Faced with these symptoms need to go urgently to the doctor because it could be an acute intussusception.
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In the first four months the baby should double their birth weight, so you need to eat much and often. Each baby follows its own rhythms of sleep and food, whether it is performed by breast and bottle.
Even if the baby has a great capacity to adapt, y…