The daily routine has not changed, he still eats 6-7 times, sleeps 4 times during the day for 1.5 - 2 hours. Some babies can sleep 9 - 11 hours at night. But often 3 month old baby
wakes up at night to snack on milk.
Children
at
3 months
they develop a fairly clear daily routine: they fall asleep at the same time, become active, and wake up to eat.
They express their emotions, desires, problems by screaming. How does a mother understand: what exactly does her baby want? Science says nothing about this, but the fact remains: with a variety of intonations, a mother will always understand what is bothering her child. It just seems like all children scream the same way. From hundreds of screaming children, mother unerringly chooses her own!
Carry the baby in your arms. Carrying in your arms is necessary for the development of the child.
Don’t be afraid,
you can’t spoil
3
-month-old baby Who else will protect and console if not mom?
Walk with your child as much as possible, at least 2 hours a day. In any weather. The only limitation is frost from -20°C. As an alternative to walking, sleeping on a balcony or terrace remains relevant.
At 3 months
Mother's milk is sufficient
for
the development of a child Are you worried that your baby will not receive enough valuable vitamins and microelements? All in your hands! No, you should not start feeding children at 3 months
, you should not give
children
at
3 months
, not even a drop.
You can drink a whole glass yourself, or better yet, eat an apple or carrot. food
during the period of feeding
a child of 3 months
should be “for two”, just do not confuse it with food “for two”!
Nutrition for children at 3 months
increases in volume.
How much should
3
month old
baby ? A breastfed baby eats about 800-850 grams of milk per day, that is, 120-140 grams at a time.
Often the first lactation crisis begins at three months. This is normal, because a 3 month old baby
increased in milk. Do you feel like there is less milk? Does the child not eat enough, is capricious, or asks for the breast more often?
What should I do, should I administer it to the child
at
3 months
? No, on the contrary - put the baby to the breast as often as possible. Demand determines supply: the more milk a child requests, the more milk is produced in the mammary glands. Conversely, infrequent feedings lead to a decrease in milk production.
Children
at
3 months
they simply love bathing, gymnastics, and massages.
They become active and require more movement and communication with others. It would seem that
laying on the stomach
3 months
for
the development of a child But this is a real exercise that develops the muscles of the abdomen, back, and neck. The main condition for a massage
is a good mood. If the child is capricious or crying, do not insist, put it off until next time. And please, don’t try to immediately give your three-month-old baby an Olympic team-level massage! The main principle of any manipulation with children is do no harm.
Vaccinations
Vaccinations for children at 3 months
do against viral hepatitis B (second vaccination), diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio (first vaccination).
Let's not argue about whether 3-month-old children
.
Need to. The question is how to make them. It is impossible to determine the baby's health status by eye.
Before vaccinating a child at 3 months, you need to get permission from a neurologist, pediatrician, and do a detailed blood and urine test. If all the test parameters of 3-month-old children are in order, they can be vaccinated.
3 -month-old baby's favorite pastime .
A child can touch toys with his hands and look at a pattern that interests him.
The baby is attracted to sounding, musical rattles. Children of 3 months
can already concentrate for a short time.
And yet, the first place in the rating of games for children of 3 months
is occupied by their own hands!
The previously clenched fists unclenched and began to grab everything that was within reach. The best toys for a 3-month-old baby
are light rattles without sharp corners or edges.
Psychomotor development of the child
Weight gain in the third month
for
a child of 3 months
was approximately 700 - 800 grams, and is growing “by leaps and bounds” plus 2.5 - 3 centimeters.
The child at 3 months
became more mobile, the first conscious movements appeared, and the muscles noticeably strengthened. The baby is already holding his head, sitting in his mother’s arms.
In children, by 3 months the increased muscle tone at birth disappears. Child ,
lying on his tummy, he leans on his forearms, and lying on his back, he plays with his hands and tries to push the rattles. He demands more communication, chatters, smiles at his family, and for some time the baby can entertain himself.
What can a 3 month old baby do?
- recognizes the faces of mom and dad, laughs when communicating;
- with negative emotions, the baby screams loudly or angrily, especially when he is scared, dissatisfied, or wants to insist on “his own”;
- walks, coos, conducts a dialogue with an adult;
- hits toys hanging above the crib with his hands;
- grabs the toy and pulls it into the mouth;
- raises his head, lying on his stomach and leaning on his forearms;
- rolls over from back to side;
- rests his legs on a hard surface with support under his arms;
- holds and controls the head;
- finds the source of sound and light;
- At this age, the child begins to laugh, loudly and sincerely.
Did you know that experts distinguish more than 70 types of smiles in 3-month-old babies!? Oddly enough, an ordinary mother who is attentive to her baby can easily achieve the same results. The main thing is to communicate as much as possible with your son or daughter!
Three months is the first small milestone at which some results can be summed up. You and your baby have achieved the main thing - you began to trust each other.
The information was prepared by neonatologist of the follow-up office O.A. Rybalko
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At three months old, the child has already grown noticeably and gained weight. How much should a 3 month old baby eat to continue to grow well? What to do if a child eats less than normal and constantly hangs on the chest? Read on for answers to these questions. The main thing is not to rush to implement all the advice at once. It is necessary to carefully analyze them and follow the most rational “way” of feeding the child.
Nutritional norms for a three-month-old baby
Children at this age should receive one of two types of nutrition: natural mother's milk or adapted milk formula. The use of cow, goat or mare's milk is not welcomed by pediatricians in our country. How much a baby should eat at 3 months depends on what he is fed.
Breastfed
By the age of three months, an individual diet has already been developed.
Feeding norm for a 3-month-old baby: 6-7 meals a day and consumption of 850-900 ml of mother's milk per day.
It is worth considering the peculiarities of feeding in the morning. At night, mom sleeps, which means she doesn’t eat. Therefore, breast milk in the morning does not have high energy value. And when mommy has breakfast, she will have nourishing milk by lunchtime.
During the night period, the baby should not take long breaks between meals, since the hormone prolactin is produced at night, which is responsible for high-quality lactation.
At three months, children drink about 180 ml of the mixture at a time. During the day you need to switch to five meals a day.
There is a simple way to calculate the required volume of formula for a child who is 3 months old. on artificial feeding. You need to multiply its weight by 1/7, and you get the daily volume of the mixture. Divide by the number of feedings and get a single dose. For example, a child’s weight is 5,460*1/7=780 ml, this is the amount of food for a day; further: 780/5=156 ml.
But in practice, preparing 156 ml of the mixture is extremely difficult, since it is prepared immediately before eating. If 150 ml of formula was enough for a child during the day, then in the evening, after active games, he may get hungry and the usual amount of food will not be enough for him. In this case, the addition of 25 ml will not exceed the daily norm.
There are exceptions, this applies to children born with high birth weight. For them, it is worth making a calculation based on calorie needs per kilogram of weight. At the age of three months, a child spends 115 kcal per 1 kg of weight.
First, we calculate the baby’s daily kcal requirement based on his weight. Then we calculate the volume of the mixture per day, based on its calorie content using the following formula: calorie requirement per day * 1000 ml, divide the result by the energy value of the mixture (it is indicated on the package).
For example, a child's weight is 6000 grams. The energy value of the mixture is 650 kcal/l. This means 115 * 6 = 690 kcal. Next (690*1000)/650=1062 ml of mixture per day. We divide this volume into 5 feedings: 1062/5 = 212 ml needed for one feeding.
Mixed feeding
First, the baby is always offered the breast, preferably both, so that while he is hungry he actively eats healthier food. If you see that he is not full, then feed him from a bottle.
The volume of the mixture can be different: from 25 ml to 120. Children on mixed feeding do not last long. This is because mother's milk is difficult to obtain, but formula flows from the bottle almost unhindered. The baby increasingly prefers food from a bottle and soon switches to artificial feeding.
How can you tell if your baby is full?
How often should a 3 month old baby eat? How long should feeding last?
With any type of feeding, if the baby receives enough food, he most often falls asleep. But not only sleep is an indicator of satiety. When the baby has drunk all the liquid from the bottle or sucked the milk from the breast without a trace and does not sleep, but smiles, gurgles and wants to play, this means that he is full and happy.
The duration of feeding can vary between 15-35 minutes. The intervals between meals directly depend on the energy value of mother's milk or formula.
How to determine if a baby has enough milk? If, when feeding on one breast, the baby is not satisfied, then he begins to cry and does not stop sucking. Also, the mother should make sure that there is no more milk in the breast she was feeding and offer another. Is the baby still hungry? Then you need to bottle feed him.
Babies who receive enough milk gain weight. When there is not enough food, the increase will be insignificant. The average statistical increase for the third month is reflected in this table.
Deviations from the norm during breastfeeding
All children are individual from birth. In case of prematurity, pediatricians do not react at all to many deviations from the norm. And the norms for babies born with high weight differ significantly from those accepted for average children.
What to do if a child eats less than normal?
The main thing is not to panic! Poor appetite can be caused by anything.
- Disease, for example, ARVI, stomatitis.
- Changes in the environment, such as moving, staying away for a long time, lack of sleep.
- Climate change, especially a sharp increase in temperature to high levels in the summer.
- Change of diet, transition to a new mixture. Or maybe the mother ate something inappropriate and the baby doesn’t like the taste of the milk.
All these factors have a short-term effect on changes in appetite. But if the baby does not eat well for two days, then you need to consult a doctor.
A periodic decrease in lactation for natural reasons occurs 2 times a month, during hormonal surges - this is the period of menstruation and ovulation.
A decrease in lactation due to cyclical changes in a woman’s body is not critical and recovers on its own within a couple of days. But there are several tips that you can follow to improve your lactation process.
Change your diet
Increase the calorie content of your food intake. For example, increase the volume of dishes containing large amounts of carbohydrates, primarily cereals.
Analyze your water load
The amount of liquid you drink should be at least 2-2.5 liters. What can you use? Only natural products: tea, natural juices, plain water.
Drink tea for lactation
Don't forget about teas to improve lactation, which can be purchased at your nearest pharmacy.
Put your baby to your breast more often at night
The more he sucks, the more prolactin is produced by your body and the better your lactation will be the next day.
Features of daytime and night sleep
Why are daytime and nighttime rest equally important for children? At night, the nervous system is restored and brain activity develops. During the day, the child rests from emotional and physical stress. Overwork negatively affects intellectual development and physical skills.
Most infants rest according to an approximate schedule: 3-4 hours of sleep followed by 2-3 hours of wakefulness. Many babies wake up to feed once every 2 hours. This is a normal picture during the formation of a lactation regime. Frequent complementary feeding increases the amount of milk produced by the mother, the baby feels calmer and more confident.
Important! If the baby sleeps for a long time, it is not advisable to wake up the baby for feeding. An insufficiently rested baby will start screaming and will not be able to fall asleep for a long time.
Sleep is important for all babies, especially small or premature babies. The task of adults is to create conditions for a calm and comfortable rest. If your baby sleeps little or too long, you should consult a pediatrician.
The baby is constantly “hanging” on the chest
Very often, a baby likes to sleep under the breast: he is already asleep, but does not let his mother go. Usually, this is not a sign of low milk supply. The baby just really likes to be close to his mother. But there are also more complex cases.
Ekaterina, 25 years old, mother of five-month-old Egor: “At about 3 months I encountered a problem: morning feeding was so long that it turned into an afternoon snack, and then lunch. He seems to have had enough, but he doesn’t let me go, he smacks me once or twice for 5 minutes, swallows a little milk and goes back to sleep. You put him in his crib, and he cries again, looking for me.”
Causes
This behavior in breastfed children can begin at any age. But most often this is observed at 1 and 3 months. This is due to the lactation crisis.
There is a decrease in the level of lactation against the backdrop of the baby’s ever-increasing need for milk. Not having eaten his fill, he continues to suck and little by little gets the food he needs.
It is necessary to understand that children must satisfy their sucking needs completely. Therefore, you should not use radical pedagogical techniques, for example, showing who is boss in the house by putting the baby in the crib to cry alone. There will be no positive result from such actions.
What to do?
The way out of this situation is simple: give the little man what he wants. Let him suck as much as he needs. To free up your mother's hands for household chores, buy a sling: your hands are free and your baby is busy.
You can arrange to sleep together throughout the day and night. In this case, the mother will have the opportunity to rest and recuperate. And then energy will appear to improve lactation. And it’s worth involving relatives in household chores, who love to give advice.
Karina, 22 years old, mother of a 4-month-old girl: “I’ve heard a lot about slings, about their incredible convenience and benefits. But I was skeptical about them until we started having “hanging” on our chests. I wasn’t in a hurry to buy it for myself personally; I took it from a friend to try. And literally the next day I ran to buy it. I, like a kangaroo, did everything with her on my chest: I cooked food, cleaned, started the washing machine, and even danced.”
How not to harm your baby while improving night sleep
Sleeping in your parents' bed is common. Often mom and dad allow the baby to spend the rest of the night in a shared bed. Accustoming your son or daughter to a separate crib is not easy, the following recommendations will help:
- You should not pick up the baby or rock him to sleep at night;
- Turning on the light when returning the baby to the child’s bed is also not recommended for adults;
- Something forced the baby to wake up and call his mother; there is no need to rush to respond - usually after a few minutes the child falls asleep.
Late-night comforts and entertainment are also detrimental to healthy sleep.
Adults justify the frequent awakening of a child in the first months of life by the need to drink, listen to a fairy tale, be hugged and rocked to sleep. Increased attention to the toddler provokes more frequent awakenings. It is important to minimize nighttime interactions with your baby: do not make eye contact, do not carry on a conversation, do not turn on the light if the baby starts to cry.
You should not rock your baby in your arms before bedtime. Newborn children have a weak vestibular apparatus; rocking in the arms is equivalent to riding on amusement rides (for adults). The baby experiences an acute lack of oxygen, which negatively affects its health.
From the age of six months, morning rest should be replaced with afternoon or evening rest. Prolonged awakening in the morning increases the child's hyperactivity during the day and deteriorates development.
The child sleeps well with a soft toy
Diet
When is the best time to feed a 3 month old baby? There is only one answer: it is strictly individual, especially for breastfed children. Some babies, thanks to their mother’s high-calorie milk, can withstand periods of 6-7 hours (especially at night), while others want to eat again after 4 hours.
Diet of a 3 month old baby during the day
Children at 3 months already sleep less. They spend their waking hours during the day learning about the world around them and communicating with loved ones, but eating most often occurs according to an individual schedule. The following table shows an approximate feeding regimen for children three months of age.
Feeding hours may change for various reasons: getting up late, high calorie food, and so on.
Diet at night
A 3-month-old baby's nightly meals should be three times a day. Approximate feeding times: 22:00, 1:30 and 3:30. These are average figures and cannot be considered as a strict rule.
It often happens that a child skips meals at night. It is not recommended to wake him up, hunger will make itself felt and the baby will wake up on his own, only later.
Causes of poor night sleep in infants
Sleep disturbance in infants is a big problem for parents who do not know how to distinguish between healthy sleep and insomnia. Startling when falling asleep, twitching of individual muscles, changes in facial expressions, pronunciation of individual sounds are options for normal sleep. You should be concerned if your baby often wakes up at night (more than five times), stays awake for a long time, or is capricious.
Causes of sleep disorders:
- Development of the relationship between rest and feeding, soothing, and falling asleep in the mother. The lack of familiar conditions complicates the process of falling asleep, the baby begins to get up often. The condition usually develops with postpartum depression of the mother or parental overprotection. If relatives are too concerned about the violation, the situation becomes more complicated and becomes chronic.
- Disruption of daily routine. With prolonged daytime sleep or late awakening, the baby is full of vitality, preventing a full night's sleep.
- The presence of somatic pathologies: intestinal colic, gastroesophageal reflux, otitis, the appearance of the first teeth.
- Hunger.
- Daytime stress or nightmares.
The child confuses day with night
- No fatigue due to insufficient activity of the baby during the day.
- Irritating factors: uncomfortable air temperature (optimum is 18 degrees), uncomfortable diapers, bad bed.
- Absolute silence from the first days of life is also undesirable. Children sleep peacefully with the TV or music player running, the sound source should be muffled.
- The presence of loved ones. While the child is small, the mother's presence should be constant. When preparing your baby for bed, it is advisable to sit next to the baby, sing a song or simply stroke him. The child closes his eyes, then it’s time to remove his hands and leave the crib.
Important! Night sleep disturbances threaten chronic fatigue of the nervous system and the development of many diseases.
At the age of eight months, children can do a lot: turn their heads, follow objects, focus their vision on objects at different distances, roll over, distinguish voices and sounds, the world around them becomes interesting for the baby. The child is afraid of missing out on something, even feeding time seems wasted.
If a child on breastfeeding often wakes up at night, the right decision would be to organize daytime feeding in a calm atmosphere, a darkened room. Usually mothers are helped by baby slings, others offer the baby to eat in a dark pantry.
Fluid requirement
Breastfed
Parents often think about what their child’s fluid needs are. Modern pediatrics does not recommend giving water to infants under 6 months. The only exception is the hot season, when the volume of liquid per day for supplementary feeding of a 3-month-old child on average reaches 200 ml. But regular breastfeeding will easily replace this volume of “risky” liquid.
After conducting research, it was revealed that water washes away the protective mucus that the gastrointestinal tract produces throughout its entire length. Along with water, foreign microflora enters the intestines, since it is impossible to provide absolutely clean water at home.
The baby receives food from the mother from the mother’s clean breast directly into her little body, and the risk of unwanted microorganisms entering is minimal.
Artificially fed
For bottle-fed and mixed-fed babies, clean water is necessary. How to calculate the daily fluid intake? This can be done at the rate of 50 ml per 1 kg of weight. For example, a child weighing 5300 should receive 250 ml of clean water. This figure does not include liquid for preparing the mixture.
Should I “complementary foods” or not?
In 2009, the Union of Pediatricians of Russia, together with the National Association of Dietitians, State Universities of Child Health and Nutrition RAMP, developed the “National Program for Optimizing the Feeding of Children 1 Year of Life in the Russian Federation.”
It clearly states that you can start introducing complementary foods no earlier than 4 months. Until this time, the children's intestines will not be able to break down “adult” food. The small intestine absorbs everything: both useful and harmful.
At 3 months, the child’s gastrointestinal tract does not produce all enzymes, and intestinal immunity is not formed. The baby has a very pronounced reflex of pushing out the spoon.
The only reason for expanding the diet can be an urgent need for minerals, vitamins and an urgent increase in the energy value of its nutrition.
In practice, such cases are rare, so the diet of children at three months remains almost the same. Only the mode and amount of food consumed changes. If your baby is healthy, then all purees are postponed for at least a month.
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Having just recently been born, a three-month-old baby is growing and developing rapidly. It is not without reason that parents always joyfully share stories with loved ones and friends about how the baby is growing “by leaps and bounds”, improving more and more and developing personally. A child at 3 months is already actively getting acquainted with the world around him, recognizes mom and dad and loved ones, makes attempts to rise on his arms while lying on his stomach, demonstrates joy with boisterous laughter or dissatisfaction with whims and crying. What are the developmental norms for a 3 month old baby? And how to provide the best conditions for the further development of the baby?
How much does a 3 month old baby eat?
In a normal situation, the main “food product” for a 3-month-old baby is mother’s milk. However, most children of this age do not require additional water or complementary feeding. It is difficult to calculate the exact amount of milk a child eats, but presumably the volume consumed per day fluctuates around 800-850 ml. That is, at one time the baby eats about 120-140 ml of milk. Accordingly, a baby has about six meals per day on average, with a break of 3.5 hours.
Often, a nursing mother begins to worry that, given the baby’s growing needs, there is not enough breast milk. It happens that milk actually stops flowing in sufficient quantities to provide the baby with nutrition. There may be several reasons for this: a decrease in lactation can occur due to improper feeding regimens, nervous stress and disorders of the mother, unbalanced and irrational nutrition of the nursing mother.
To increase lactation, it is recommended to put the baby to the breast more often: in response to sucking, milk comes naturally. You should be less nervous and eat right, including the required amount of animal protein, dairy and fermented milk products in your diet, consume more liquid food and teas to increase lactation.
If for some reason the baby still does not have enough breast milk, you should discuss with your doctor the possibility of supplementing the baby with formula. In the case when the baby is completely transferred to artificial nutrition, it is very important to follow the feeding schedule: the formula takes longer to digest than breast milk. At the same time, when preparing baby food you will have to strictly follow the instructions.
Tip #8. Don't go to the other extreme
At some point, I decided to prepare a bottle of compote for the night, in case the baby woke up with a real desire to drink. However, after some time it became clear that, moving away from one extreme, we smoothly move to the other. After this, our baby had to forget about nightly compotes, which, of course, he was not happy about. And so that he definitely doesn’t want to drink, before going to bed he gets his favorite kefir or yogurt.
After such a tasty treat, it became more pleasant for him to fall asleep.
3 month old baby's daily routine
By the age of 3 months, the child usually has a sleep-wake pattern: at night the baby can sleep 8-10 hours, periodically waking up to “stretch.” Experts advise not to jump up to your child at night at the slightest rustle or movement: over time, he will stop waking up at night. Even though the longest sleep is at night, the baby also sleeps during the day. During the day, the baby can sleep up to 4 times, 1.5-2 hours each.
As a rule, a child falls asleep and sleeps best during a walk. Experts advise walking with your baby at least 3 times a day, the total duration of stay in the fresh air should be about 6 hours. It is worth walking with your child in any weather; the only obstacle may be heavy rain or severe frost when the air temperature drops below 10 degrees.
The day for the baby should begin with the morning toilet: the mother wipes his face and eyes, and, if necessary, cleans his nose and ears. Hygiene procedures are also carried out during the day: after the child goes to the toilet. Moreover, be sure to wash the baby with soap and water if he poops.
The “main” bathing session takes place in the evening, before going to bed. But overly excitable children can be bathed at lunchtime. The most comfortable temperature for bathing a baby is 37-38 degrees; it is good to add decoctions of medicinal herbs, for example, string or chamomile, to the water.
Night sleep norms for infants
Table of norms for children's sleep (0-3 years)
| Age, months | Daily sleep norm, hours | Night rest, hours | Daytime rest, hours | Number of daytime naps |
| 1 | 15-18 | 10 | 9 | 4 |
| 2 | 14-17 | 10 | 7 | 3 |
| 3 | 14-15 | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| 4-5 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| 6-8 | 14,5 | 11 | 3,5 | 2 |
| 9-12 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 2 |
| 18-30 | 13 | 10,5 | 1,5 | 1 |
| 30-36 | 12 | 10,5 | 1,5 | 1 |
Note! Generally accepted sleep norms for infants are average rest parameters for healthy children.
The difference between the upper and lower limits of normal is a maximum of 3 hours. Each deviation is determined by the unique characteristics of children: genetic factors, increased physical and emotional stress, well-being and special sleep conditions. At the same time, a pattern is observed: the younger the child, the more sleep the baby needs.
