In the hot summer days, adults generally increase their drinking capacity. So are pure breast-feeding babies also needing to drink water?
User Question: My baby is now 2 months old and is exclusively breastfeeding. My mother-in-law said that if the baby doesn't drink water in the summer, she will be thirsted, but what the doctor told me is that the exclusively breast-fed baby doesn't need water. Will you need to drink water for your baby?
Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as breastfeeding only to infants, without giving any other liquid or solid food, or even water. Therefore, pure breast-feeding babies do not need to drink water.
Breast milk regulates moisture content automatically
Even in summer, exclusively breast-fed babies do not need to drink water because breastmilk contains enough water, even during hot and dry seasons. Studies have suggested that breastmilk has a magical character that automatically adjusts during the summer or when the child needs it to increase the water content to help the baby to make up for thirst. Another study showed that in the tropics, as long as the baby can eat breast milk at any time, there will be no dehydration. Therefore, within six months, the baby can provide all the nutrients (protein, fat, lactose, vitamins, iron, calcium, phosphorus, etc.) and moisture (more than 80% of breast milk) needed for its growth and development.
Hot weather increases breastfeeding times
If the baby looks thirsty, you should let him increase the number of suckings. This way it can eat more of the front milk (more moisture) to ensure that the necessary water and other nutrients are added in time. If you have enough milk, nutrition and moisture can meet the metabolic needs of the baby within 6 months, so exclusively breast-fed infants in principle do not need water.
Feeding water too early or too much can affect baby’s development
If it is not necessary, if water is given too early or too much to a pure breast-fed baby, it will squeeze its stomach capacity, inhibit infant sucking capacity, make it less active and suck breast milk, affect mother's milk secretion, interfere with breast milk. Feeding affects the baby's growth and development.
Of course, if the child suffers from dehydration due to high fever, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, insufficient breast milk, and frequent mid-summer sucking, it is another matter.
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