Never shake a baby . This can cause blindness, brain damage or death. Feeding Your Baby Hold your baby so she can see your face when you feed her. Feeding is an important learning time for a new baby. She learns that a person satisfies her strongest need hunger when she can see your face as you feed her.
Babies usually cry when they are hungry.
If your feeding schedule is too rigid, you may have to listen to a lot of crying. Many babies will start to get on a regular schedule all by themselves in four or five weeks, if fed when they re hungry. If your baby is very irregular, and doesn t do anything at the same time each day, you may want to try feeding every three or four hours. Wake her a little early for each feeding to start her on a schedule. If you wait too long, your baby may cry, gulp lots of air and spit up.