What's the best breastfeeding schedule for a baby?

What's the best breastfeeding schedule for a baby?: "Question: What's the best breastfeeding schedule for a baby?

Answer: The best breastfeeding schedule should be your baby's decision! Would you like someone telling you when you could drink or eat? Putting your child on a strict feeding schedule could make it difficult for her to get all the food she needs to grow properly. Instead, let her tell you when she's ready to eat.

Your breast milk is specifically designed for the physical, neurological, and emotional growth of your child. Her caloric needs change constantly, depending on growth spurts and her mobility level — and only she knows what she needs, and when. Studies show that babies have an innate ability to fill their nutritional needs if allowed frequent and unrestricted access to the breast.

Learn to recognize feeding cues and you'll realize when your baby needs to nurse: sucking noises, rooting behavior (when the baby moves her head or mouth in search of the nipple), and sucking on her fingers, fist, or wrists.

Crying is a late indicator of hunger, signaling that you may be missing earlier feeding cues. Babies also need to nurse for reasons other than satisfying hunger. Touch and suckling enhance your baby's emotional growth. "

A gassy smile

This is so called "Gassy Smile". We're so excited to see our little girl smiled. Later, we found that this was not the real smile. In Thai, we call this as ยิ้มแม่ซื้อ or "a smile to guardian angle". It was so adorable, anyway...

Today is my first day after my birth, it's the first time that I tasted the most delicious milk in the world ... my mommy milk :) ... I don't really know how to eat it but I can do it quite well at the first time ... Right I'm the expert ... 

First Day in Life

Eventually, Jida came out to see the new world on Friday 2, December 2005 at 20.54 hrs ....... You See ! I was so big at 3,370 gram and 51cm height.

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Pain was more intense... still coming and going...

Once, we were sure that this was the real contraction. The nurse then called our doctor, Prof. Dr.Somboon Kunathikom to ask for his recommendation. As we planned, we needed to just wait because both of us really wanted to have the natural birth. We don't want to have the synthesis oxytocin to speed up the process. Tai wanted to have intermittent rather than continuous EFM. Sometimes, she just walked around to ease her pain. I massaged her and the nurse provided us a boombox to play nice and calm music.

I also called up Aj Satit, my colleague that I won't go to the university. Now we needed to wait to pass the first and second step of labor. During that, the nurses just came in and out to observe and ask for the cervix examination.

It was about 4 pm that the nurse found that cervix was 3 to 4 centimeters dilated and the progress started to accelerate. From that time, Tai found that the active labor was really got rolling. The contractions became more frequent, longer, and intense. We asked the nurse to check whether Prof. Somboon would have no problem to come in time. The nurse said so.

The day feeling the pain

Tai started to feel her pain for delivery during the late night after we had good dinner at Coffee Bean on Dec 1, 2005. The timing for her pain was coming and going in every 15 to 30 minutes. That made us pretty sure that the moment we had been waiting for would arrive soon. We decided not to do anything but waited until tomorrow morning as we learned from พี่ไก่ at Samittivet hospital that things went fine. We hardly had a good sleep through the night.



At 6 am, we decided to go to Bangkok hospital as we planned. We arrived at the hospital at 7am. We even bought congee soup. However, the nurse did not recommend Tai to have it so I am the one who ate it myself. We prepared a tennis ball and massage oil to ease out Tai's pain. Tai needed to be monitored by the Electronic Fetal Monitor (EFM) to record the heartbeat of the fetus and contractions of Tai's uterus. The record showed this was the real contraction ! It was exactly 40 weeks and 1 day for our first baby.