Hint: If they're crying already, you've likely missed a few signs!
As I lay in my hospital bed, a confusing chart stared me down. I was a first-time mom and the maternity ward nurses had left me with a white board, a dry-erase marker and a wailing newborn. I was told to nurse him every two hours, and to record the time of each feed, as well as the details ofInstead of following my baby’s natural hunger signs, I was obsessed with this odd schedule that made me too anxious to sleep. Instead of watching my son for hunger cues, I was watching the clock.
“A healthy baby will tell you when he’s hungry,” says paediatrician Rob Everett, the medical lead for paediatrics and mother and baby care at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver. Whether your little one is, parents should follow a newborn’s lead. “The goal is to try and pick up on signs that the baby wants to feed before he gets hungry and starts crying, because then it’s actually much more difficult to get him to feed.
In the “quiet alert” state, infants become more physically active, stretching and stirring. You may notice your baby open their mouth and begin to root, turning their head to one side as they start nuzzling and moving their chin, mouth and nose around . They might put their hand to their mouth or suck on their fingers. It’s also common to see them smack their lips and stick out their tongue.
It’s important to catch these “quiet alert” baby hunger signs before your newborn enters “active alert” territory. If you miss these cues, the window between “quiet alert” and “active alert” becomes very narrow. They may learn to skip the “quiet alert” stage altogether and go straight to “active alert,” crying for your attention. But if you tend to start a feed when your newborn is in a calm, “quiet alert” state, they may develop a bit more patience, explains Everett.
“A crying baby is burning a lot of calories, and that can tire them out very quickly,” says Kathryn Hayward,and assistant professor of nursing at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “So the infant can go from crying to exhausted, and [could fall] asleep without feeding.” If you’ve missed the first baby hunger signs, Hayward recommends calming your infant down before frustration builds.
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