Each child has their own nutritional needs, so there is no reason to impose a regulated schedule when feeding them.
A study has focused on deepening the effects of implementing this form of food and has concluded that Demand feeding in babies is beneficial for their cognitive development.
The organism of a baby does not work like that of an adult. A baby can be fed and be hungry again an hour later, so it makes no sense to limit the time of the shots to a schedule, whether we talk about babies who drink breast milk or bottle.
A team of researchers from the Universities of Essex and Oxford analyzed the schedule for feeding more than 10,000 babies between 8 weeks and 33 months born in the early 1990s.
At the age of eight, children who had been fed on demand as children had an IQ about four or five points higher and they had achieved a better cognitive development than those that were fed according to a scheduled schedule.
For mothers, there seems to be a benefit in having pre-set schedules for meals. It has been observed that mothers who feed their babies according to a fixed schedule can sleep more, although they still did not reduce the risk of postpartum depression, a phenomenon sometimes related to fatigue and lack of sleep.
In any case, what we try as parents is to satisfy the best possible physiological and emotional needs of our children, especially if we also know that Demand feeding in babies is beneficial for their cognitive development.
