What should I do if my baby cries when breastfeeding?

Breast milk is the best way to feed our babies. Babies who grow up with breast milk are very healthy and smart, because breast milk can provide our babies with a lot of nutrients. But some babies cry when they drink breast milk. Why do babies do this? If your baby also encounters such a problem, what should we parents do? Let’s take a look at it below.

When babies are 4 or 5 months old, they start to drink less milk and have a poor appetite, which makes parents worry about insufficient nutrition. In fact, this is a common phenomenon of babies aversion to milk. Parents should not worry at first. As long as they carefully find out the reasons why the baby averse to milk, they can take appropriate countermeasures.

Reason 1: Feeling unwell (e.g. teething, vaccination, illness, etc.)

Method: If the baby is teething, you can use a nipple with larger holes to drink milk to reduce the pain caused by sucking. Or mix milk powder with other foods such as cereal, rice flour, etc. into a milk paste and feed it with a spoon.

Reason 2: Curiosity leads to inattention and playfulness.

Method: When breastfeeding, it is best to avoid noisy sounds or things that may distract the baby so that he can concentrate on eating.

Reason 3: Physiological aversion to milk, poor appetite, aversion to milk for more than 2 months, and poor development of weight and height.

Method: You can supplement your baby with special vitamins, or ask your doctor whether to use appetizers to adjust gastrointestinal function and increase appetite.

Reason 4: The sense of taste begins to develop, and the baby lacks interest in milk with the same taste and wants to try new flavors.

Method: Do not force feeding as the baby may resist. When providing complementary foods, it is best to use a variety of foods with different flavors; and try to use natural flavors and do not add seasonings (within one year old). You can try switching to milk powder for babies over 6 months old that has a better taste and does not contain sucrose. It may be that the baby is used to the pacifier, and a lot of milk can go into his mouth just by gently using the bottle, while he needs to exert a lot of force to drink breast milk. Feed your baby more breast milk and less cow's milk. It's fine once the baby gets used to sucking breast milk.

It turns out that there are many reasons why a baby cries when he is breastfed. So if a baby cries when he is breastfed, we parents should have learned the above understanding and solutions. The above methods are very effective in treating the phenomenon that babies cry as soon as they drink breast milk. Only when the baby eats well can he grow up healthily.