We have already had two entries talking about some errors that we can see in the supplementary feeding sheets that pediatricians and nurses give to parents, commenting on the one hand the issue of the amounts to offer and on the other hand the mistreatment of breastfeeding that we can reach to meet us
As there are no two without three, today we continue with another of the errors that we can see in these sheets or guidelines, as is the Mark strict schedules thinking that the baby has to eat according to a clock and not according to his hunger.
Mark strict schedules
I would say that there should be few leaves in which we see schedules to feed the children, but I assure you that there are, because I have seen them.
They can tell you that at nine in the morning they have to take a cereal porridge with milk, that at 13 hours you have to eat vegetables and chicken, that at 16 hours a fruit porridge, and that at 19 they take a bottle or chest. Then, at night, when you wake up (say at eleven at night), make the remaining milk or chest.
Surely you are all thinking that it is the most absurd thing that you have thrown in your face, but hey, if the pediatrician gives it to you and argues it to you as “this has been studied and we see that the children eat better”, because Whatever happens, that many mothers (and fathers) have to alter their current pace of life to comply with the sheet: "No, at four I can not stay, that my daughter has the fruit porridge."
Come on, that that someone superior controls our lives is fulfilled since you have six months and through your parents, that they follow a standard recommendation offered to all children.
What else will a child have for breakfast at nine in the morning or do it at eight or ten. What else will you give that instead of eating at one o'clock at noon do it at two o'clock, when your parents eat, and that if you are hungry before (between breakfast and lunch) you breastfeed as many times as necessary or a bottle .
Well, that does not matter, it is absurd to accustom a child at a time so that later the weekend comes and everything is removed. That it is absurd to get him used to eating at 1:00 p.m., if they are then made to eat at twelve in the nursery, if the grandmother puts the food on the table at 2 p.m. or if, directly, the child is not hungry even at that time.
Y it is even more absurd if following a schedule causes the child to be upset, or because he would eat before, because he can't stand so many hours without eating, or because he would eat later, because he doesn't need to eat so often.
Most children wake up at night
Something that does not appear on the sheets with schedules is night time. It would be absurd, if not possible, that we read in them something like "at 3 in the morning, offer a little breast or prepare a bottle." However, the fact that there is no night time makes many mothers and fathers understand and makes many pediatricians and nurses understand (because the sheet must be written years ago and they understand it this way) that at night children already have to sleep all night.
Come on, that at night do not give him anything, because he has to sleep, and if he wakes up, then you give him a little water at most, and if with the pacifier it sneaks, then you save yourself from giving him water. As if it were harmful or something like eating at night.
The point is that most children wake up at night and many do it to eat a little, something logical if they suck and have to try to prevent their mother from having a mastitis for having milk in the breasts that nobody takes out, so it may happen that the last take is done, to say something, at seven or eight in the morning and then at nine o'clock, when you touch the cereal porridge, say “What do you say, the cereals are very rich? Well, if you like them so much, you pick them up from the bib and the floor, I don't eat them. ”
And the fault, of course, would not be for the child, inconsiderate, who does not value the money that cereals cost or the time that mom has spent preparing them or the love with which she approaches with the spoon hoping she is not one of those who “eat fatal ”, but from the person who, instead of putting scripts before the things that a child can start eating, decided that he could set a schedule to make the lives of families easier.
Let everyone in your home do it however
Children, and adults in fact, we should eat when we were hungry and the body asked us to. Now, as we have other obligations (such as work, for example), we all follow more strict and marked schedules that do not really respond to a need of the body.
The children have eaten on demand until six months, following their mothers the rule that has been repeated so much: "Do not look at the clock, give it when you ask." Once they turn six months, the norm is the same: "Do not look at the clock, give it when you ask", and if when it asks it cannot be, then anticipate and give it before you ask or give it as soon as you can, but forget that a clock marks your child's hunger and, going further, forget that a printed sheet that can be totally different than the one your neighbor has, which also has a child your age.
