Babies fed with breast milk are now living their first summer and suffering their first heats. Because they are tiny, they have more difficulties than us when it comes to regulating the temperature and they are usually always in contact with something or someone (a stroller, a hammock, in the crib or in their arms), getting to suffer more heat than we do .
For these reasons we must be careful with babies avoiding being in places where they are very hot, putting little clothes on them and increasing breastfeeding so that they are well hydrated.
But this breastfeeding was not on demand?
Yes, breastfeeding is on demand and that is why the recommendation is more informative than the rule to follow. I explain: if you want you can increase breastfeeding so that the child sucks more and you may do so because, "Since they give me the tit, I take advantage and I suck". However, there are babies who do not want more than they ask for (and do not want you to increase their doses) and others, probably most, who will not have to increase the doses because they have already increased them.
As it is hotter in summer we tend to drink more liquids all in general. If you are one of those who buy bottled water, you will surely have noticed that now you have to buy more bottles, because they are spent before. Well, children, if they spend more heat and sweat, they will also be more thirsty and that is why they will ask for more chest.
"I don't know what happens that these days suck a little while but many times"
Many mothers ask these days if it is normal for the baby to ask more often, if they will not be running out of milk. The answer is no, that there is no decrease in milk, that milk must be given on demand and that if it asks for more times it must be given more times and that if it does it is because now, in addition to hunger, he is more thirsty.
The milk of the beginning of an intake is the most watery, the one that contains the least fat. This is precisely so that the baby, "sucking" for a little while, quenches his thirst. That's why in summer, with more thirst, they make some very short shots.
That is why I say that, rather than recommendation or advice, this entry is rather a warning: If the baby asks for more, calm, it is the most normal thing in the worldHe is thirsty.
