Original | Ike Parenting
There is a certain pattern of human height growth, which is roughly divided into three key periods, namely infancy, childhood and adolescence. The other two periods, let's not talk about it, today we mainly talk about the infancy and infancy.
Infant and young age is a critical period for a person to lay the foundation, and parents should be extra careful. The following share a few suggestions, parents do a good job, it is very helpful for children to grow tall.
1. Get enough sleep
Due to the small stomach capacity of the baby, the first three months of the night need to get up to breastfeed, which can not be controlled.
From the 4th month onwards, the mother can slowly reduce the number of night feedings to the baby, preferably to ensure that the child can be in a deep sleep state from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. During the day, children can also be properly arranged to take a nap.
In addition, pay attention to the fact that although the baby does not create a particularly quiet environment when sleeping, it is also necessary to ensure that it is not noisy and that the child can fall asleep normally.
2. Pay attention to the time of adding complementary foods
Babies generally start to have a swallowing reaction when they are 4 to 6 months old, so the doctor suggests that we can try to add complementary foods to our children from this time.
Some mothers may say that my child drinks good milk powder, I will wait for the child to be older and then add it, is this good?
It can be arranged according to the actual situation of the child, but it is best not to be later than 6 months, because gradually adding complementary foods to the child from 4 months can help the child transition from a liquid diet to a semi-solid, solid diet.
If this transition cannot be completed in time, when the child eats solid food, there will be difficulty swallowing and vomiting, which will have a certain impact on the normal growth and development of the child.
3. Ensure the diversity of complementary foods
When your child drinks formula, general nutrition is guaranteed. When children add complementary foods, how much nutrition each child can get depends on how the parents feed.
It is recommended that after adding complementary foods to the child, according to the child's acceptance, from less and more, from one to a variety of gradually transition. Because the complementary food is too single, children who are older are prone to partial eating and picky eating.
More importantly, the more types of food children eat, the nutrition will naturally be more balanced and comprehensive, so as to meet the nutrition needed for children's growth and development.
4. Insist on giving children vitamin D or AD
When I took my child to the physical examination, the doctor told me that if I had the conditions, I could give my child vitamin D or AD (either of the two) until the end of puberty. Because vitamin D can promote calcium absorption.
Of course, this is just a suggestion, when the child is older, we avoid the noon ultraviolet strong every day, give the baby a proper sun, can also be converted to vitamin D.
Infant and young children are the key period of children's growth and development, I hope that everyone can do their best, seize the opportunity, and escort the children to grow tall and strong.