Interview with minsaude.pt
Many mothers stop breastfeeding because they think they have little milk.
According to the WHO, almost all mothers can produce enough milk to breastfeed one or two babies. Almost all of them can produce more than the baby needs.
Therefore, it is not important to think about how much milk the mother can produce, but rather how much milk the baby receives.
Sometimes the baby doesn't get the milk he needs and this happens because he isn't sucking enough, or he doesn't suck effectively and latch on correctly.
Sometimes the baby cries a lot and there may be several possible reasons and signs. It is important to assess the reason for the crying.
For the WHO, the sure signs that we can say that a baby receives little milk are:
– Insufficient weight gain – less than 500 g (in a baby between 0-6 months who is exclusively breastfed), or at 15 days lower birth weight).
– Very concentrated and small quantity of urine (less than 6 times a day, yellow and with an intense smell).