Can milk powder be mixed with breast milk?

This is not advisable, because human milk will become cold and oxidized and deteriorated when it leaves the human body, and it will lose nutrients when heated, and milk powder needs to be washed with warm water at 45 degrees. Otherwise, the baby will reject the formula.

Breast milk can be mixed with milk powder, and breast milk and milk powder can be mixed with milk and milk powder.

Although mixed feeding is not as good as breastfeeding, mixed feeding can allow the baby to eat as much breast milk as possible, and at the same time, in the case of insufficient total milk, ensure that the intake of sufficient milk does not affect normal growth and development. If your baby can eat breast milk several times a day, it will have many health benefits, such as improving immunity, reducing allergies, and establishing a good parent-child relationship.

Milk powder and breast milk should not be mixed together.

If breast milk is insufficient, the infant can be given milk powder on the basis of breastfeeding.

Breast milk is a natural, safe and optimal nutrition for infants, not only rich in protein, fat and various trace elements to meet the needs of infant growth and development, but also contains immunoglobulins, so that babies can fight diseases before they have established their own immune system. In addition, breastfeeding babies is convenient, the temperature is suitable, and breastfeeding can better cultivate the relationship between the baby and the mother.

Some mothers may not have enough breast milk for the baby to eat, and if the breast milk is still not satisfied after conditioning, the baby can be supplemented with nutritional milk powder that meets the age of the month, so that the baby's growth and development will not be affected.

It should be noted that the supplementary milk powder mentioned here is not to add milk powder to the breast milk extracted by artificial means, but to separate the two, first normal breastfeeding, and the missing amount is supplemented by mixed milk powder.

The main factors influencing breastfeeding:

There are many main factors that limit the sustained increase in breastfeeding rates, and there are many social factors in addition to biological factors.

Biological factors usually refer to the physical and psychological conditions of the mother and newborn (e.g., postpartum initiation time, mode of delivery, time of separation between mother and baby, parity, gestational age, complementary food before breastfeeding, closed breastfeeding, feeding knowledge, infant crying, infant age).

It also includes the physical state of the mother and baby, the medical status (the nursing mother's illness, the high-risk pregnancy during pregnancy, preterm birth or low birth weight, the parent's smoking), and the psychological state of the nursing mother (such as the mother's willingness to feed, the psychological status before and after childbirth and lactation).

With the economic and social development, more and more women are entering the workplace, and the proportion of working women is getting higher and higher, so the impact of social factors on women directly determines the status of breastfeeding rate.

Social, economic, and cultural factors (including length of maternity leave, return to work, promotion of breast-milk substitutes, level of family support, social and cultural factors, marital status, availability of public facilities to facilitate breastfeeding, and environmental factors).

Iatrogenic factors (knowledge, competence and educational behaviour of health care workers, education and support for pregnant women) and household income – areas with better economic status, better family conditions, and better workplace and social well-being for women are more likely to increase breastfeeding rates.

The factors affecting the breastfeeding rate are complex and diverse, so to improve the breastfeeding situation, it is not only necessary to increase the health education of lactating mothers and families, but also to pay attention to building an environment that is convenient for breastfeeding, improve public facilities, guide the public to strengthen the understanding and support of breastfeeding, and look at breastfeeding more comprehensively and rationally, so as to alleviate the anxiety of lactating women and newborn families.