4.5 month old baby milk

How much milk should a 4.5-month-old baby eat to meet the energy needs of the body? In fact, it is difficult to have a relatively accurate value for the amount of milk a baby should be fed. Although experts tell mothers that four-month-old babies need to drink 600-800 ml of breast milk or formula every day, there are still differences for different babies. So mothers don’t need to worry too much about the amount of milk they feed.

4 month old baby milk intake

The normal stomach capacity of a four-month-old baby is 120-180ml. The emptying time of breast milk is 2-3 hours, and the emptying time of formula is 3-4 hours. Feed 5 times a day, once every four hours, and the amount of milk each feeding is about 200 ml. The total amount of milk intake should be controlled. The daily milk intake of a 4-month-old baby should be guaranteed to be around 800ml. No more than 1000 ml per day and no more than 250 ml of milk per meal.

But babies also have individual differences. If the baby drinks less milk, it may be due to heat in the baby's body. Be sure to give the baby more water. You can add some fruit juice to the baby. Some babies also have a period of anorexia from 4 to 6 months, which is a physiological anorexia period. You can also add 1/4 egg yolk or a thin rice paste

, mix with boiling water to make liquid food for feeding. Start feeding complementary food before breastfeeding at four months old, and add complementary food between two feedings. You can start with rice cereal, and then slowly add other complementary foods after the baby's gastrointestinal function adapts.

Don't think that when your baby is 4 months old, the amount of milk must increase compared to the previous month. There is no difference in the weight gain of infants between 3 and 4 months and between 4 and 5 months, and the same nutrition can be given. Some people may think that the baby's increasing movements consume energy.

Therefore, for babies who exercise more, nutrition must be increased accordingly. However, the energy consumed by exercise can be compensated by sugar. At 4 months, for babies who seem to be a little insufficient in the amount of milk they were fed last month, you can add some cereal powder. You can only add about 3 grams at a time, and it is best to add it once before going to bed at night to prevent weight gain caused by excessive fat.

For babies who are very full with the three-month milk intake, do not increase the amount of milk they are given just because they are in the fourth month. Cereal powder is added from the beginning of three months, and the amount of milk is increased from 180 ml to 200 ml. For babies who eat five times a day, if they feel that it is not enough after four months, the amount of milk should not be increased, but they should start to be given milk substitutes. When the baby can eat a lot at one time and can continue for a long time, and only eats milk 4 times a day, you may wish to increase the amount of milk each time to 200 ml or 220 ml. In short, the total amount of milk per day should not exceed 1,000 ml.

Because babies can start eating some complementary foods at four months old, the editor recommends reducing the amount of milk appropriately and slowly letting the baby transition to complementary foods to better prepare for weaning in the future.

A 4-month-old baby's independent motor skills are further enhanced. If you tease the baby with a toy, the baby can twist his buttocks and crawl a short distance to successfully get the toy. The baby can also pass the toy in one hand to the other hand in order to get more toys. And this month you can start adding complementary foods to your baby. The significance of complementary foods is not only to meet nutritional needs, it is also a process for the baby to learn to eat and gradually adapt to foods other than breast milk.

But when the baby is 5 months old, the daily milk feeding amount should be between 800-1000ml, about 200ml each time, 4-5 times a day. Vegetable juice (vegetable puree) or fruit juice (fruit puree) can be fed 2-3 times, about 80ml (50g) each time, rice flour can be fed once a day, 20g each time, and 1/4 egg yolk can be fed every day.

When the baby is in the milk aversion period, if it is caused by physical reasons, the baby should be taken to the doctor for treatment immediately; if it is other reasons, we should respond differently according to different reasons. For example, if a child doesn’t like to drink milk, maybe it’s because he likes complementary food more? For example, is it because the pacifier is too small and can no longer meet his appetite?

For example, mommy changes milk powder frequently, but the baby doesn’t like the taste of the milk powder? For example, is the dining environment too noisy? For example, he no longer likes the way his mother feeds him? And so on. In short, mothers should analyze specific problems specifically, so that they can easily deal with the baby's milk aversion problem!