Why does my baby eat less milk?

During the breastfeeding period, you need to pay attention to your baby's diet. If your baby shows any abnormalities, you need to check in time to avoid your baby's aversion to milk, which will affect your baby's health. Especially when your baby is very thin, you need to pay more attention to breastfeeding to avoid physical weakness. So why does your baby eat less milk?

Since birth, babies have been sleeping and drinking milk, and they grow very fast. But the feeding process may not always be smooth. Many babies will become averse to milk when they are 4 to 5 months old. Is the baby sick? Parents are often very worried about this. He Mingjiao, head nurse of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, said that a baby’s reluctance to breastfeed is not necessarily caused by illness, but parents should be more patient during this period to help the baby successfully pass through the milk aversion period.

If your baby hates milk, you should first rule out pathological reasons

When the baby is 4 to 6 months old, his milk intake may occasionally decrease for three or two days, and he may appear to have a poor appetite and not want to eat. This is a unique phenomenon of milk aversion in babies. He Mingjiao introduced that the milk aversion period may occur when the baby is 3-4 months old, or it may occur around 6-10 months. There are many reasons why babies dislike milk, but they can be divided into physiological milk dislike and pathological milk dislike.

Physiological milk aversion lasts for a short time, mostly two or three days. During this time, the baby's mental state is normal, and there will be no abnormal phenomena such as fever and crying, so parents do not need to worry.

Pathological milk aversion means that the baby is unwilling to breastfeed due to illness. Some chronic diseases, such as congenital heart disease and metabolic diseases, may cause milk aversion. Another is acute infection, such as thrush, which can cause oral pain. Children will feel pain when drinking milk and will be unwilling to eat. Therefore, in addition to milk aversion, there may be other abnormal symptoms, such as poor sleep, lack of energy, easy crying, and even abdominal distension, vomiting, fever or shortness of breath. Parents should pay attention to it and go to the hospital for examination and medical treatment in time.

If your baby is averse to milk, you can consult a doctor to add complementary foods to help your baby eat milk, so that the baby's physical health will not be affected by breastfeeding problems. In particular, once the baby's milk intake decreases, you need to pay attention to timely medical treatment to avoid the condition from worsening and causing danger to the baby.