How to Increase Baby Weight

In general, babies are born with different weights and traits to each other, the average weight of newborns is 2500-4500 grams. One of the determining the size and weight of the baby is genetic, maternal health during pregnancy, and the nutrients provided while in the womb.

You don't worry when your baby's weight is low at birth, the most important thing is the weight that can be achieved after your baby is born. Generally, in the 4th month, the baby will experience a double weight gain from the time your baby was born.

However, observing the development of weight alone is not enough, you should also pay attention to the height or length of the baby, the circumference of the head that is to measure the size of the skull and also the baby's brain in normal growth so that the doctor can detect premature abnormal growth in the baby. 

You don't rush to say that your baby has a problem with weight because it can't just be seen from the appearance of your baby, the exact way is to measure and also compare the weight with your baby's height. If the results, found that the baby's weight shows the skinny category then you can look for the cause.

Here are some causes of skinny babies:

1. Lack of balanced infant nutrition intake, the role of the mother is very large to determine the nutritional intake that is tailored to your baby's nutritional needs. You are advised to be careful in providing a companion food for breast milk

2. Your baby has entered a period of height growth so that his active movement and activity in infants older than 6 months caused his weight to decrease in a reasonable amount.

If your baby's weight is relatively sluggish enough to increase, here are tips for raising your baby's weight:

Quality breast milk intake. In infants under the age of 6 months, the only way is to increase quality breastfeeding. Quality breast milk can result from the breastfeeding mother's food intake, complete daily nutritional needs, and also avoid the stress that stresses you, thus reducing the quality and quantity of breast milk.

Schedule the feeding of breast milk. Generally in the age of your baby entering the feeding of breast milk (6 months and above), the baby will reduce drinking breast milk, this is considered reasonable because another nutrient intake has been obtained from the mother's milk companion food. 

You can schedule the feeding of breast milk 2-3 times a day with portions tailored to your baby's age, the most important thing in providing breast milk storage food is the nutritional content, especially calories you can add vegetable oil or cheese to the mother's breast milk storage food to be more attractive and varied.