What should you pay attention to when caring for a three-month-old baby?

The life of a three-month-old baby has already developed a certain regularity, and the time spent sleeping at night is getting longer and longer. However, special attention should be paid to the care of the baby during this period, because the baby's body grows and develops relatively fast during this period. If you don't pay attention, the baby will easily get sick. This also makes many inexperienced parents at a loss, and they don't know how to take better care of the baby. Let's learn about what you need to pay attention to when caring for a three-month-old baby.

What should you pay attention to when caring for a three-month-old baby?

Nutritious diet

Breastfed babies do not need to add other foods if the milk supply is sufficient. However, babies who are mixed-fed or bottle-fed should be fed once every 3-4 hours, 150ml each time, 6 times a day. The total milk intake for the whole day should not exceed 1000ml.

For babies who are mixed-fed or bottle-fed, vegetable juice and freshly squeezed fruit juice should be added in appropriate amounts to replenish the vitamin C lost during milk processing. Generally, feed twice a day, between feedings.

Breast milk is still the best food for babies for three months. It not only provides babies with rich nutrients that are easy to digest and absorb, but also helps babies resist the attacks of diseases. If you are unable to breastfeed due to work or health reasons, you can feed your baby formula milk that is close to breast milk in composition instead of feeding him with rice soup, rice paste, or infant cakes, which are difficult for babies to digest and absorb.

Nursing points

1. Baby urination

Start training your baby's urination habits 3 months after birth. Parents should carefully observe the baby's urination performance and intervals, and help the baby when they think they need to urinate. When helping the baby urinate, they can send out a "hush, hush" signal and adopt a certain posture to connect the signals of time, sound, and posture. After repeated repetitions, a conditioned reflex of urination will be formed.

2. Crying at night

When the baby is 3 months old, he starts to learn to lift his head and can support his upper body with his elbows when lying on his stomach. The cervical spine begins to bend forward and the thoracic spine gradually bends backward. To ensure a comfortable position, you should use a pillow for your baby 3 months after birth. Develop the habit of taking a nap in the morning, noon and afternoon, each time for about 2 hours. You can sleep continuously for more than 5 hours at night. However, some babies always cry and make noise when they sleep at night, making young parents exhausted.

In addition to the common factors that affect babies' sudden crying while sleeping, such as poor sleeping environment, being too excited before going to bed, physical discomfort, etc., the baby's internal factors also affect sleep: the brain nerves are not yet mature. The child has not yet established a fixed schedule physically. The adjustment of the baby's biological clock's day and night rhythm depends on the baby's physiological maturity.

3. Accidental protection

Never leave your baby on the edge of a bed, table, or sofa without supervision. Otherwise the baby will suddenly learn to roll over and fall. This is the most common thing in 3-month-old babies, and parents must avoid it.

The above is an introduction to what you need to pay attention to when caring for a three-month-old baby. After understanding, we know that the baby's caregiver needs to pay special attention during this period. Do not feed the baby too much food. Also, the indoor environment of the baby must be kept well ventilated. If any problem occurs, go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.