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If the chewing ability of infants and young children is not exercised in time, it will affect the absorption of nutrients, the arrangement of teeth and the development of language. So when do you start chewing exercises? In fact, from the time the child is 6 months old, he is already practicing his chewing ability.
At first, you will add some mushy food to your child. At this time, the child will push the food out, this is because the child's tongue pushing and squeezing reflex has not disappeared; some children will have a gagging reaction when swallowing, this is because the child's swallowing action is not coordinated, not that the parents think that the child does not like to eat. Therefore, it is necessary to try many times, so that the child gradually adapts to the complementary food, so as to better exercise the ability to chew and the coordination of swallowing.
What to do at different times?
4-6 months
Food supplement nature: mostly liquid or semi-liquid (such as: rice noodles, vegetable soup, juice, etc.)
At this stage, children with sensitive taste development are more likely to accept foods other than milk. After 4 months, the child's sucking and swallowing of liquid food has developed well, and liquid food is not easy to flow out. About 6 months, is the best period to exercise the child's chewing ability, this period also needs targeted training of children's swallowing ability, so the complementary food should be based on liquid or semi-liquid, such as rice flour, juice and so on. Because only by learning to swallow, the child can later adapt to the swallowing of solid foods.
At this stage, supplementary foods will be added, and your child's oral movements will also be exercised and his tongue will become very flexible. He uses the movements of his tongue and mouth to swallow food. But because the child's movements are not coordinated enough, more or less will push the food out. These are normal phenomena, and parents must be patient enough.
Feeding advice
1. Due to the particularity of the baby's mouth, parents can choose to feed with a small, shallow, safe material spoon.
2, in order to attract children to eat, parents should also make exaggerated chewing actions when feeding their children to eat, just like chewing gum.
4-6 months
7-9 months
Food supplement properties: semi-liquid or semi-solid (such as: vegetable puree, thicker fruit puree, porridge, etc.)
This stage is the golden age for exercising your child's chewing ability. Through the previous exercise, they have learned to swallow, and at this time, they also need to exercise the child's "biting" action, so the complementary food provided is mostly semi-solid, such as thicker fruit puree, vegetable puree, etc., and the food is thicker than before.
At this stage, the baby's deciduous teeth have also erupted. Their ability to chew and swallow has been further improved. They will try to chew up and down food with their gums and show their desire to eat. When they see others eating, they also want to try.
Feeding advice
1. In order to alleviate the discomfort of your child's teething, you can provide a harder teething biscuit or a teething stick.
2, the variety of food provided should be diverse, while improving the consistency or roughness of food.
3. Provide some graspable food, let the child take it and eat it by himself, and exercise the child's hand and eye association
Modulation capacity.
7-9 months
10-12 months
Food nature: semi-solid or soft solid food (such as: soft noodles, noodles, boiled vegetables, vegetable porridge, steamed eggs, etc.)
This stage is a critical period for exercising your child's chewing ability. Therefore, the complementary foods provided are gradually increasing, and most of them are mainly soft solid foods, such as soft noodles, vegetable porridge and so on.
Children at this stage have begun to have the ability to chew. Their chewing ability and oral movements are more coordinated. They will try to bite off the food themselves before chewing it. At this time is also an important period for children to overtake solid food, parents must seize this period to provide children with suitable food, so that children can better chew exercise.
Feeding advice
1, this stage is a good opportunity for children to eat by themselves, parents can provide children with a small spoon or let children grasp and eat with their hands, improve children's grasping ability, and lay the foundation for cultivating good eating habits.
2. The number of times parents need to increase complementary foods is about 3 times a day.
3. Provide a variety of foods, mainly crushed, lumpy and finger foods.
Start training your baby to drink water in a water cup instead.
10-12 months
More than 12 months
After the child is 1 year old, with the increasing number of teeth, the ability to chew is getting stronger and stronger, and he is more and more adept at using his teeth, which has slowly approached the eating habits of adults. Vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and milk can be eaten, but what needs attention is that the meal does not need to be cooked to be particularly soft and rotten, less salt and less oil, and it is mainly light.
Food supplement nature: mainly solid (such as: meat, rice, cut into greens, etc.)
Feeding advice
1. Provide children with cooked vegetable segments, long pieces of fruit or slightly harder finger biscuits to cultivate the habit of eating solid food.
2. Provide children with food that is easy to grasp or easy to scoop up, so that children can learn to eat on their own.
More than 12 months
It takes a while for the child to truly grasp the ability to chew, and parents must not be in a hurry and do not force the child to eat. Be sure to understand the physiological characteristics and dietary characteristics of children of different ages, and combine the child's own situation to add complementary foods in a reasonable and step-by-step manner. I believe that the child's chewing ability will definitely get better and better!
Author: Zhang Li Editor: Xiaoqi Review: Yangyang Teacher
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