So, your baby is born. Congratulations! You might have questions about her eating patterns, or perhaps she she a heavy sleepier, and it is difficult to wake her up to initiate feedings. During the first few days of life, some newborns are too sleepy to take initiative and show their moms that they are ready to eat, and it is considered normal. You may want to use several different strategies to wake your infant and stimulate her to feed.
Consider these strategies to stimulate your baby to eat:
- Unbundle the baby and hold her in a sitting position. Sometimes getting her undressed down to the diaper does the trick! When your infant is exposed to cooler air she may wake up and be ready for a meal.
- Talk to your baby and stroke her back.
- Use skin-to-skin contact to stimulate the baby to eat.
- Try expressing some breast milk or drops of formula into your baby's mouth to stimulate sucking.
- If the infant is still sleepy after 10 minutes of stimulating, placed her down and try again in 30 minutes.
- Do not let your baby go without eating for longer than four hours. She may get then very hungry and it will be difficult to satisfy her hunger quickly enough to have a pleasant feeding experience.
- Avoid pacifiers as the baby may satisfy her need for sucking and fall asleep without feeding.
When these suggestions do not work, your baby does not want to eat, or you are concerned consult with your pediatric health care provider ASAP.
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