However, it is necessary to point out, that having wet diapers alone does not mean that a baby is getting enough milk, as even a dehydrated baby wets diapers. The best ways to find out how a baby is doing are considered to be stool checking and weigh gain.
If a baby nurses in a quiet room, his mother can hear him swallowing her breast milk.
After a baby has nursed, the woman’s breast, from which a baby sucked the breast milk, gets somewhat softer.
These are the warning signs, which can mean that a baby does not get enough milk:
• A baby has lost 10 percent or even more of his birth weight during the first five days after arrival. However, losing about 5 – 9 percent of a baby’s birth weight is all right, as by the fifth day of his life a baby usually gains his birth weight and then he or she is to gain at least one ounce every day.
• A woman often can not hear her baby swallow.
• Woman’s breasts do not become softer after her baby nursed.
• A baby is either fussy or even lethargic most of the time.
• There are dimples on the baby’s cheeks;
• A baby makes noise like clicking, while nursing.
• A baby does not wet more than six diapers during a 24 hour period after the five days of his arrival;
• A baby does not have stool at least one time a day, or, in case if he or she does, the stool is small and / or dark.
In case if a woman notices any of these signs, she is to call either her baby’s doctor or a breastfeeding consultant right away.
Here is the amount of milk babies of different ages and of different weight are to consume:
Average Intake by Age in Months:
• Babies of the age from 0 up to 2 months are to take about 2 – 5 ounces / 60 – 140 grams of milk per one time, which makes about 26 ounces / 740 grams of milk a day;
• Babies of the age from 2 up to 4 months are to take about 4 – 6 ounces / 115 – 170 grams of milk per one time, which makes about 30 ounces / 850 grams of milk a day;
• Babies of the age from 4 up to 6 months are to take about 5 – 7 ounces / 140 – 200 grams of milk per one time, which makes about 31 ounces / 880 grams of milk a day;
Average Intake by Weight in Pounds / kilograms:
• Babies with the weight of 8 pounds / 3.5 kilograms are to take about 21.3 ounces / 600 grams of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 9 pounds / 4 kilograms are to take about 24.0 ounces / 680 - 700 grams of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 10 pounds / 4.5 kilograms are to take about 26.7 / 760 grams of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 11 pounds / 5 kilograms, are to take about 29.3 ounces / of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 12 pounds / 5.5 kilograms are to take about 32.0 ounces / 900 grams of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 14 pounds / 6.3 kilograms are to take about 37.3 ounces / 1060 grams of milk a day;
• Babies with the weight of 16 pounds and more / 7 kilograms and more, are to take about 42.7 ounces / 1200 grams of milk a day.
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