Overfeeding means giving your baby more nutrients and energy than your baby needs for normal metabolism. The baby is “bigger” than babies of the same age. Overfeeding has many drawbacks, obesity is not the same as health! Overfeeding can lead to the following problems 1, digestive malabsorption baby organs are in a growth and development stage, are still very young, and very limited activity. Overfeeding, early addition of complementary foods, as well as excessive addition of complementary foods will increase the workload of the digestive organs, causing digestive malabsorption. 2, easy brain fatigue, causing premature brain failure To digest too much food, the digestive tract is bound to expand, limited blood and oxygen from the head to the digestive tract, the brain cells will be temporarily ischemic, so the more you eat, the more blood the gastrointestinal needs, the less blood supply to the brain, the greater the harm to the brain. Studies have found that premature aging material will increase tens of thousands of times after a meal due to overeating, prone to obesity, and even affect the development of the brain, low intelligence. 3, increase the risk of childhood obesity overfeeding in infancy will increase the risk of childhood obesity (5 to 6 years old). 4, other non-communicable diseases overfeeding will also increase the risk of other non-communicable diseases later, such as: hypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.. Although this effect will not be visible early in life, but it has already laid a hidden health risk. Avoid overfeeding, parents must learn how to determine the baby is full 1, look at the baby’s weight & height growth rate 0-3 months of age, monthly weight growth of 1 kg, height growth of about 4 cm, it means that the baby is basically full. If the baby’s weight growth is less than 1 kg at the 42-day checkup, it means that there may not be enough breast milk and formula needs to be added, or the feeding method may be incorrect and needs doctor’s guidance. If the weight gain is too fast, it means you may feed more. 2. Observe your baby’s reaction when he or she eats milk. Your baby will cry when he or she can’t suck, and then he or she will cry again after sucking for a while, crying and wanting to eat again, and never wanting to let go of the nipple. If the mother’s other breast does not produce milk while the baby is sucking, it also means that there is not enough breast milk. If the baby just sucks without making a swallowing sound, or sucks more than once before swallowing, it means that the mother does not have a lot of milk. If the baby can sleep quietly for more than 3 hours after feeding and does not cry until the next feeding, it means he has had enough. If the baby refuses to let go of the mother’s nipple for a long time, or spits out the nipple for a while and cries, and has slow weight gain, it means that he or she has not eaten enough. 4, look at the baby’s urine and stool Generally speaking, the baby wet (wet through) more than 6 diapers a day, indicating that the amount of breast milk is sufficient, the baby is full. 5, look at the baby’s skin color See if the baby’s skin color is healthy, skin and muscles are elastic, if everything is normal, it means that the baby is full and well fed! In order to prevent overfeeding, you need to pay attention to the following aspects 1, in the first few days of the child’s life, the mother’s colostrum amount is very little, especially the mother of caesarean section needs to wait 1-2 days before she will have milk, mothers do not have to worry about the child will be hungry and blindly add formula. In fact, newborns are born with rich energy reserves and blood glucose maintenance ability. As long as the weight loss does not exceed 7% and the risk of hypoglycemia is very low, mothers can insist on waiting for milk secretion. 2, must be brewed according to the formula brewing ratio, 1 spoon of milk powder means 1 flat spoon and not risen. 3, a milk amount is not finished, mothers do not try every possible way to make the child drink the remaining milk. 4.Don’t add complementary foods too early, no special circumstances, to full 6 months of age (180 days after birth) before adding complementary foods. 5, must let the child more activity, activity is to consume energy. If the baby consumes more for a long time, but does not affect the function of the gastrointestinal tract, it may lead to excess energy. Nutrition or pediatricians will often see overweight or obese infants and children, and after dietary analysis, it is found that the vast majority of these children are caused by improper feeding, resulting in excess energy. Nowadays, overfeeding is becoming more and more common in infants, especially those who are artificially fed. This is why mothers’ parenting behaviors are especially important, and scientific feeding behaviors can benefit children for life.