Sometimes it is not necessary to wait for the child to cry to offer the breast, since crying can uncoordinate the child and make it cost much more to perform the suction. There's a lot signs that indicate the baby is hungry, for example, the activity of the baby, the click of the lips or when he sticks out his tongue like when he looks for the breast.
But the signs can sometimes confuse us and what our baby asks us is not to eat, but something else. Trying to find out what it transmits through external signs will help us meet your needs.
Milk not only serves to calm the baby's hunger, it is also necessary to hydrate it and acquire substances such as hormones, enzymes and other molecules. It is best to offer the breast, this is an unequivocal signal, if you do not want it will not suck and remember never to force it. With the bottle is different, he feels more obligated to drink, since milk falls by its own weight forcing him to swallow.
It is very important to learn to control the nuances of the child, behavior patterns, some signs of nervousness, do not always indicate a need to breastfeed, if we rule out that he is hungry, we must try to find out what is the cause of this nervousness.
