Does a newborn baby need to be fed water?

Water feeding is not recommended for newborn babies, and breastfeeding is recommended as early as possible. For special circumstances, such as hypoglycemia, sugar water can be fed under the guidance of a physician as appropriate. Usually for newborn babies, if there are no special circumstances (such as preterm babies, meconium aspiration, etc.) is generally recommended to breastfeeding as early as possible, breast milk in the vast majority of water, can meet the baby’s physiological needs for water. Newborns have a small stomach capacity, and feeding water will affect the baby’s intake of dairy products. Therefore water feeding is generally not recommended for newborn babies. For some abnormalities, such as hypoglycemia, the general need for intravenous glucose supplementation, if the situation is urgent, there is no immediate intravenous glucose supplementation of the conditions, can be carried out under the guidance of the physician to feed sugar water.