How to compose a mode of day for children from zero to three months
Babies usually have one task - to eat well and to grow. It is feeding and should be based on the mode of the day. Children who are breastfed, is more complicated. Mom might not know exactly how much milk was drunk by the baby and when he wants to eat next. So often mothers practiced feeding on demand, but in this case, set the mode is quite difficult. However, you can try to keep a diary of feedings, weighing the child every time before and after he was attached to the breast. Using an electronic balance can figure out how much milk was drunk. Correlating these data, mom will know when baby is drinking more when less. And learn to calculate time intervals between sleep and food. This will initiate the drafting of the regime of the day.
Children who are on artificial feeding, to enter the mode easier. The amount of formula remaining in the bottle, we immediately see that ate the kid or not. And after some time it again wants to eat. Although some pediatricians recommend sticking to a schedule of feedings, observing certain intervals. And between them to dopisivati water baby. What to do in each case can be determined only empirically. Do not blindly follow the advice of doctors, especially, their opinions are often the opposite. It is important to observe the child's behavior and listen to your own feelings. Only then can we build the most comfortable for mom and newborn mode.
The mode of the day - what is included except sleeping and feeding
Other than sleeping and feeding in the day a newborn will need to add nightly bathing, massage, exercises to eliminate colic, a walk. The approximate day mom and baby first month of life is:
07-00 - lifting and feeding the baby;
07-20 - wash the baby, change the diaper, carrying out hygienic procedures, lubrication of the skin with a cream or use powder;
08-40 - feeding;
09-00 - sleep;
11-00 - feeding;
11-20 - hygiene, diaper change;
11-30 - walk;
13-00 - coming home, feeding, sleep;
15-00 - feeding;
15-20 - exercises to eliminate colic;
15-30 - hygienic procedures;
15-40 - walk;
17: 00 return home, feeding, sleep;
19-00 - feeding;
20-00 - massage;
20-30 - bathing, hygienic procedures;
22-00 - sleep;
00-00 - feeding;
00-20 - sleep;
04-00 - feeding;
04-20 - sleep.
Of course, the baby will make adjustments to this schedule. However, the estimated mode of the day is clear, and it is possible to try to adapt to it. As they grow older the number of hours of sleep per day will decrease as the number of feedings with sequentially increasing portions. To three months the baby sleeps most often two or three times a day, less eating and more time awake. He begins to recognize parents, smile, say the first sounds. For moms begins the most interesting time she sees the reaction of the baby on their own actions, learning to find contact with child and every day love and understand him more.