What are the feeding guidelines for three-month-old babies?

For a three-month-old baby, the main nutrition comes from breast milk. If breast milk is insufficient, the main nutrition comes from milk powder. Generally speaking, babies at this age generally do not need to add other complementary foods. Breast milk and milk powder are the main diet. It is very important for parents to choose milk powder suitable for their babies. In addition, they must learn relevant feeding knowledge. Let’s take a look at the feeding guide for three-month-old babies.

Feeding Guide for Three Month Old Babies:

For a first-time mother, many things are unknown. How should she feed her baby scientifically? Please accept this feeding guide for 3-month-old babies, including eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, sleeping, growth indicators and ability development.

Eat, drink, defecate, urinate, sleep in clothes

1. Breast milk

Some babies are fed with a mixture of breast milk and formula milk from the moment they are born, with formula milk being a supplement. You may find that the baby refuses to drink formula milk and regurgitates or spits up milk. This may be due to the baby's intolerance to formula milk and sensitivity. You need to slowly transition to formula milk under the guidance of a doctor. Breastfeeding is recommended for babies over 3 months old.

2. Clothes

You should add clothes according to the season. For example, now that the weather is getting cooler, you should change into some long-sleeved and longer clothes. Babies grow very fast at this stage, so don’t stockpile too many clothes, as they may become belly-exposing outfits before you even start wearing them.

3. Sleep

Gradually develop a regular sleeping habit. For example, start preparing to wash the baby or take a bath, change diapers around 8:30 p.m., combine feeding and patting the baby to sleep, and only turn on the night light. The baby will fall into a deep sleep in about an hour. The baby who develops the habit will not eat or make trouble at night, and the mother can also have a good sleep comfortably.

4. Activities (indoor and outdoor)

The baby should practice lifting his head while lying on his stomach several times a day. Mothers can help the baby practice turning over.

You can go outside in the morning or afternoon when the sunlight is not too strong and look at the flowers and plants outside.

5. Defecation

For babies who use diapers all day, mothers must make sure to wash their buttocks before going to bed every day so that the baby's buttocks will not turn red.

As your baby grows, his bowel movements will become more regular:

*The number of urination and defecation times per day is decreasing.

*Diapers are mostly urine, not poop like in the first two months when almost every diaper change would result in poop.

*The frequency of pooping changes from many times a day to once a day or two.

Capacity Development

1. Visual aspects

Both eyes can move with objects, and can look at black and white cards and color cards for visual training.

2. Athletic ability

When lying prone, the baby can hold his head up steadily, his head can be held very straight, his eyes are bright and he will look around.

3. Pronunciation

When the baby is happy, he will babble. The mother can change the expression or voice to amuse the baby. When the baby hears the sound, he will turn his head to look at the source of the sound.

4. Drooling, sucking fingers, blowing bubbles

The baby will suck his fingers frequently, spit out small bubbles from his mouth, and drool from time to time. At this time, mothers should pay attention to keeping the baby's neck and mouth dry to prevent redness of the neck.

5. Hands can grab things

The little hands will clench and release, and will subconsciously shake things when they have something in their hands. They will grab things around them, such as dad's collar, the small blanket covering his body, etc.

6. Psychological development

When he wakes up and there is no one around, he will babble a few times. If no one goes over to him, his crying will become louder and louder.

He may recognize people. Sometimes he will cry when his father holds him, but he will be fine when his mother holds him.