If it happens that you have to give up breastfeeding - even for a short time, it is worth knowing how to bottle feed your baby so that you can return to breastfeeding later.

Choose modern bottles with specially designed nipples that mimic breastfeeding and match the baby's age.

Physiological bottles, having a specially designed curved shape, have an anti-colic effect. The nipple should have a special structure that imitates the flow of milk from the breast and does not allow the baby to relax, as it was before, and subsequently open from the breast.

When bottle-feeding, hold your baby in the same way as when breastfeeding. Hug the baby, maintain emotional contact. Do not feed the baby when he is lying on his back - the head should be higher than the tummy.

Watch the milk in the bottle - air bubbles should form there, which indicate that the baby is sucking correctly.

Correctly put the nipple in the baby's mouth - it should grab the elongated part of the nipple, rest with the sponges on the wide. The nipple at this time should be completely filled with milk, there should be no air bubbles in it..

After eating, hold the baby in an upright position until the excess air that he may have swallowed while feeding is expelled. lady. siteua. org.