Introduction: As the baby's age increases, simple breast milk or milk powder can no longer supply the energy needed for growth and development, and at a certain age, complementary foods have become a link between breast milk, milk powder and a variety of diets. How to eat and what to eat can be suitable for the baby's digestive system and promote growth and development, which is a problem for new mothers. From breast milk or milk powder to supplementary foods, it is necessary to consider the baby's taste adaptation and digestion ability, and also consider nutrition.
If the first addition of complementary foods does not lay a good foundation, a series of problems such as affecting teething, hindering development, poor resistance, and affecting the stomach and intestines will come to the door and bring difficulties to parenting.
Yangmei's baby is more than 5 months, usually eat breast milk, Yang Ying began to work after maternity leave, the baby is no longer so convenient to eat breast milk, Yangmei sucked out the milk during work and took it home at night and put it in the refrigerator for storage. Bayberry is marked in chronological order every time, and when the baby drinks milk during the day, it can be given to the mother-in-law to heat up.
Just a week after work, the baby began to diarrhea, did not get better for two days, took to the hospital for examination, the doctor said that it was diarrhea. To understand what the baby eats, then the mother-in-law said that she drank rice porridge for the baby, because she felt that the breast milk baby who heated the refrigerator would not be full, and it was no problem to drink porridge for more than 5 months, and the previous children were fed like this.
The doctor corrected that after letting the baby eat complementary foods for at least 6 months, it should also be added in a timely manner according to the child's digestive situation, and the addition of complementary foods cannot be used to drink porridge immediately. In children who are more than 5 months old, the digestive system is in the development stage, and the gastrointestinal absorption and digestion ability is relatively weak. Feeding him breast milk or food other than milk powder, causing gastrointestinal burden, accidentally will cause indigestion leading to diarrhea or bloating, the child is sick for a period of time will inevitably affect the growth.
Yangmei usually also understands some parenting knowledge, completely follows the parenting knowledge, she knows that the baby will be after 6 months to add complementary foods appropriately. What makes her regret is that she did not warn her mother-in-law in advance, fed with experience, and entered the misunderstanding to make the baby suffer.
01, add several major misunderstandings of complementary foods, Bao Mama should go around
Usually many people add complementary foods to the baby are based on experience, complementary foods are not able to eat enough, but also consider the gastrointestinal digestion ability of young children, consider the nutrition, food safety, so bao mom to add complementary food to avoid misunderstandings, smoothly through this key transition period.
Myth 1: Feed complementary foods with bottles
Most of the original supplementary foods are liquid or semi-liquid foods, and many parents put the complementary foods in the bottle for the baby to eat in order to facilitate it, just like drinking milk, so that they can adapt to eating complementary foods. This can be used as a transitional, but it cannot be a method of long-term feeding of complementary foods.
Babies rely on bottles to lose the opportunity to use tableware, which is not conducive to independent dining in the later stage, and also makes chewing ability unexplained. And with the bottle feeding complementary food, the type of food is limited, so that the baby is not easy to accept more kinds of complementary food, resulting in incomplete nutrition.
Tips: Feed complementary food According to the food your baby wants to eat, choose the right tableware, and don't covet the convenience of using the bottle all the time.
Myth 2: To save time, adults feed at their own pace
Eating complementary foods is not the same as drinking milk or breast milk, and babies eat slowly or make their faces full of food. In order to avoid trouble and save time, many parents directly take a spoon to feed, completely according to their own eating rhythm. Such a practice can not judge whether the baby is full, the eating speed is fast or slow, adults can not grasp, is not conducive to the baby's digestion, or cause food accumulation.
After the formation of habits, when the baby has the ability to eat independently, it will also resist eating independently, the feeding habit is not conducive to hand-eye coordination exercise, the fine movements of the hands have no opportunity to exercise, and the lack of limb control ability is not conducive to physical and mental development.
As long as you can take the tableware yourself, you must give the right to eat to the child, and parents must be patient and not easily restricted.
Myth three: Multi-purpose when eating
Many babies are not active in eating complementary foods or eating, parents in order to encourage eating, allow children to eat while playing, and even according to the baby's preferences, chase feeding, or watch mobile phone videos while eating. This is the practice of focusing on toys or videos or other things and not concentrating on eating.
Parents seem to have children playing and eating, eating fast, and thinking that the effect is very good, but in fact, this is all an illusion. When eating, he will be dependent on toys or other things, and once he does not have this dependence, he will reject eating, and this kind of multi-purpose eating method will affect digestion is inevitable.
Myth #4: Eat how fast you eat
Most adults have this awareness, eat how fast to grow, so blindly persuade children to eat more, when encountering resistance, adults will even force feeding. It is easy to cause children to eat too much, bring burdens to the stomach and intestines, and appear to accumulate food or indigestion.
Adults require the baby to eat according to their own perceived amount of food, which reduces the child's perception of the amount of food, and eats more for a long time, which may not grow fast, but will lead to obesity or cause other diseases.
Myth 5: Season with salt
The human body must consume an appropriate amount of salt every day, but the baby does not have too high a demand for salt, and premature intake of salt will cause kidney burden and bring health risks. Adults should not cook for their babies according to their personal tastes, and the two bodies have different food needs.
epilogue:
Before the age of 3 is an important stage of children's growth and development, from adding complementary foods to eating, it is a great challenge, not only changes in taste, but also related to behavioral ability and psychological development. Mothers can learn more about the knowledge of adding complementary foods, start to lay a good foundation, avoid misunderstandings, scientific and reasonable feeding, and help the baby grow up healthily.
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