The baby falls asleep after only a few minutes of feeding.

Sometimes the baby only feeds for a few minutes and then falls asleep. In fact, this is quite normal. It is easy for the baby to fall asleep during the feeding process. If this happens frequently, the mother can gently scratch the soles of the baby's feet or pat the baby's back to make the baby consciously eat more milk and let the baby go to sleep after being full.

Is it good for babies to sleep after feeding?

1. It is easy to cause caries in deciduous teeth

The amount of saliva secreted during sleep will naturally reduce the function of oral cleaning. In addition, the long-term fermentation of milk in the mouth will damage the structure of deciduous teeth. To avoid this sequelae, you can put a bottle of warm water in your baby's mouth after sucking milk and let him take a few sips to clean the remaining milk in his mouth.

2. Easy to choke

When the baby is unconscious, the oropharyngeal muscles are not able to effectively protect the tracheal opening, which can easily allow milk to seep in and cause the risk of choking.

3. Reduce appetite

Because the milk in the stomach is poured into the baby when he is drowsy, the baby has no feeling of hunger when he is awake, so his desire for food will be reduced when he sees it in the future.

4. Develop passive psychological behavior

Humans seek things because they have needs. They eat because they are hungry, they wear clothes because they are cold, and they seek knowledge because they do not understand something. This is how psychological and behavioral patterns develop gradually. If everything is passively prepared for the baby by adults from a young age, and even the most basic animal behavior of seeking food is not fully developed, how can the baby develop an active and enterprising mentality to seek knowledge, development, competition and victory in the future in the society? Therefore, it is important to cultivate the habit of the baby to actively seek food rather than passively being fed.

Finally, a reminder to all new mothers: while feeding your baby, if your baby gradually closes his eyes, you can gently pinch his earlobes, or tap the soles of his feet with your fingers to wake him up and then continue feeding. If the baby really doesn't wake up, don't force it. Let the baby sleep in the crib. The baby will wake up when he is hungry, and you can continue feeding him. This method of feeding is actually feeding on demand.