Many mothers worry the first few days after having their baby because colostrum only comes out of the chest and in a small amount, thinking that maybe your baby can stay hungry. Sometimes, unfortunate comments from the environment can also lead to such beliefs.
However, it is important to know that the stomach of a newborn can house only between 5ml and 7ml of milk, or what is the same, it has the size of a marble that will evolve according to the production of milk of its mother. How is this growth and how many days does it occur?
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Newborn, your stomach is like a marble or a cherry
The first days after birth, the mother's breasts produce small amounts of colostrum, just and indispensable that the baby needs. The stomach capacity of the newborn is very small, being able to house between 5ml and 7ml of milk.
So, the baby does not need more and does not stay hungry, much as some people in the environment can tell the recent mom. Skin with skin and breastfeeding on demand is the only thing the newborn needs.
And sometimes he falls into the error of believing that the baby "is hungry" and needs reinforcement bottles and the only thing we get is increase the size of your small stomach to forced marches, which could translate in the long term into childhood obesity problems.
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Frequent taking the first hours of birth will facilitate the rise of milk and little by little the baby will take more and the mother's production will adapt to her needs.
On the third day of birth, the baby's stomach will be the size of a nut or a ping pong ball. It is capable of holding between 22ml and 27ml of liquid; that is, four times more than three days ago. The growth is impressive in such a short time!
At the week of birth, it's like an apricot
In the first week of life the mother's breasts have been producing more and more milk and the baby's stomach has also grown gradually and in parallel to said production, until reaching the size of an apricot, being able to house between 45ml and 60ml.
At ten days, it's like a chicken egg
By the tenth day of birth, the mother's milk is transformed into transitional milk, which contains less protein than colostrum and will vary day by day until it reaches the composition of mature milk.
The volume increases in each teat so the baby's stomach will adapt to this new circumstance growing to a size similar to that of a large chicken egg and a capacity of between 60ml to 81ml. Between ten and fourteen days of life, the volume of the baby's stomach will grow even more until it reaches 100ml.
Mother and son understand each other: she will produce more milk as the baby increases the volume of her stomach to drink it. Or maybe it is the other way around, the size of the baby's stomach increases and the mother's body, who knows it, produces more milk to give her what she needs.
With these graphical examples it is clear that the volume of the stomach of the baby grows as breast milk production increases (or vice versa), so it is important to respect their rhythms and leave mother and baby alone so they get to know each other and adjust their needs.
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