After the baby is six months old, you can start to add complementary foods, but many parents reflect that their children do not know what the reason is, that is, it is not good to eat complementary foods, parents are very worried that their children's nutrition can not keep up, so what is the way to make the baby fall in love with complementary foods?
First of all, parents can compare their children according to our height and weight scale, if the child's indicators are normal, there is no need to worry too much, and secondly, if you want to solve the problem that the baby does not like to eat complementary foods, you need to find a way to deal with it first.
Eating itself is a very pleasant thing, for the baby, this is also a novel and interesting activity, so parents do not blame and criticize the child when the child eats, if you have been forcing the child to eat, the baby will be very stressed, so that the baby's appetite is not good, the baby will be very resistant to eating, parents can encourage the baby more, so as to increase the baby's appetite.
The addition of complementary foods also marks that the baby has entered a very critical stage of growth, after all, if the baby is only breastfed or milk powder, it is impossible to meet the growth needs of the baby in the later stages of growth. Next, let's take a look at the reasons why babies don't like to eat complementary foods.
1 Babies won't eat
Before adding complementary food to the baby, the baby has always been "sucking" this way of eating, simply by sucking to eat, and the supplementary food needs the baby to chew, can not be enjoyed quickly, then the baby will produce impatient emotions, and even very resistant.
2 Babies don't like to eat
Now many parents are busy with work, can not participate in the baby's daily meals, basically the baby is eating by themselves, no one is more reluctant to eat with the baby, plus many parents just rely on their own wishful thinking, the added complementary food may be the baby does not like to eat.
3 Babies cannot eat
In order to save trouble, many parents feel that no matter what the baby eats, as long as he is full, he will let the baby eat breast milk and milk powder according to his own wishes. The baby has eaten these has been full, certainly will not be able to eat complementary food, the number of breastfeeding times at this stage of the baby is also more frequent, if the amount of control is not good, the baby will definitely not be able to eat complementary food.
4 Babies dare not eat
Although the baby is still very small and cannot clearly express his thoughts, this is not to say that the baby does not have his own emotions, the baby just has no way to speak out, if the baby is eating, the parents give the baby too much pressure, the baby will not eat complementary foods because of the temper.
So for babies who do not like to eat complementary foods, what should parents do to improve?
The significance of adding complementary foods is not to supplement nutrition for the baby, as well as the role of exercising the baby's teeth and cultivating the baby's chewing ability, if the baby does not love to eat complementary food at the beginning, the parents will easily give up, it is not OK, what parents need to do is patience and persistence.
The significance of adding complementary foods is not to supplement nutrition for the baby, as well as to exercise the baby's teeth and cultivate the baby's chewing ability, so if the baby does not eat complementary food at the beginning, parents must have patience and can take a spoon to feed the baby, which can exercise the baby's chewing ability, but also avoid the baby's teeth from touching too much acidic food to destroy the teeth.
Everyone has their own eating habits and preferences, if the baby does not love to eat complementary food, it may be because the baby does not like this complementary food, parents need a little more patience, you can change the ingredients of the complementary food, in short, let the baby try several types of complementary foods, you can choose to work the appearance of complementary foods, so that the baby will love to eat.
Although the most important source of nutrition for the baby at this stage is breast milk to drink milk powder, but these foods do not mean that the more the better, if you just blindly pursue the amount of feeding, the baby's stomach is full, there is no place to eat complementary food.