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Your baby smiles, develops properly and behaves well. This means that your kid is getting enough breastfeeding milk. In such cases mothering instinct prompts that everything is ok.

After being breastfed the baby willingly rejects the breast, has a long and sound sleep and wakes up only when it wants to eat. The baby produces about four to six wet diapers a day and has regular bowel movements.

One of the main signs that breastfeeding milk is enough is newborn weight gain. During the first months of life, the newborn gains up to 600 g, during the second and the third month the weight increases to 800 g, then month after month the newborn loses 50 g.

Watch your kid's skin - it is clean, pink and looks like velvet. In the end of the first year the infant holds its head well, reacts to sounds and gives a beautiful smile.

In the end of the second month the small mouth produces first sounds, the kid starts to observe the objects that move. In a month the baby wants to communicate - it moves the hands and the legs, it somehow calls you, it can lean and raises its head. At four months the baby looks around and starts to recognize familiar faces.

Here are some signs that make mommy worry that her baby is not getting enough breastfeeding milk:

Yesterday, my friend told me about her thoughts that her breastmilk was harmful for her baby. Herchild sleeps badly  and is crying for long hours after breastfeeding, so she supposes that this is because she has bad breastmilk. An interesting fact is that her baby is much more quite and calm when he is fed with formula.

I started to think, is there such a concept as bad breastmilk? I searched a bit in the internet and understood that there is no bad breastmilk in nature. Mother’s milk is the healthiest food which a baby can get; it contains all the necessary elements which are responsible for the health and well-being of a baby. So, breastmilk can’t be harmful, it is nonsense.

The reason for such a behavior of a baby can be mother’s diet (as my friend worries about her weigh much and tries to loose it as soon as possible). I think that because of her diet she does not have bad breastmilk, but her milk is not nutritious enough. Her baby might be hungry and that’s why he is crying and he is nervous. As the same quantity of formula is more nutritious the baby feels satisfied and behaves calmer. I have found the same opinions in the internet forums. Now I am trying to persuade my friend to refuse from any diets, to stop thinking about bad breastmilk and to provide normal breastfeeding for her baby.