The advantage of mixed feeding is that it can meet the child’s nutritional needs in a timely manner. The disadvantage of mixed feeding is that it is more difficult to feed and easy to feed inappropriately.
1. The benefits of mixed feeding: when breast milk is insufficient, the child will cry because of hunger, and insufficient nutritional intake often affects the child’s development, mixed feeding can effectively solve the problem of insufficient breast milk, can give the child timely nutritional supplements, which will help the child’s development.
2. The disadvantages of mixed feeding: it is likely to be improper feeding, easy to make the child indigestion, diarrhea and other digestive discomfort, because after feeding the child breast milk, it is difficult to grasp the amount of milk powder the child drinks, if feeding too much milk powder, it is easy to lead to improper feeding.
If you choose mixed feeding should also be breastfeeding, if you reduce the frequency of breastfeeding because of less breastmilk, it is likely to lead to less and less breastmilk. It is recommended that feeding programs be developed under the guidance of a medical professional.