Your baby is starting to add complementary foods
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Worry about food allergies
Worry about indigestion
The slightest abnormality is entangled in whether to suspend complementary food
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Common problems in the complementary food addition stage
The number of farts increased after the baby was added with complementary food
Is it normal?
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If you want to solve this problem, you have to know how the fart came about
The main source of farts is the gas ingested when talking or eating, or the food enters the digestive system and is fermented by the gastrointestinal tract, or interacts with the intestinal flora to produce nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, methane, hydrogen sulfide and other gases. These gases are passed down through the peristalsis of the intestines and released by the anus.
I feel that the number of farts has increased after the baby adds rice noodles, which may be due to the following reasons:
1. Starchy food is the mainstay
This is a common reason in the early stages of complementary food supplementation. The composition of rice flour is rice, which is rich in starch, and most parents add complementary food is a reference to the supplementary food on the Internet, and most of the ingredients are potatoes, carrots, yams, sweet potatoes and other starch-rich ingredients.
2. There are many fruits or foods high in sugar
Many parents will add a variety of fruits to their children earlier, due to the large moisture of the fruit, sweet and sour taste and crisp texture, the baby may not like to eat rice noodles or vegetable puree, but almost no baby will refuse the fruit. Therefore, if you eat too much fruit or food with a lot of sugar, it will also decompose and produce gas in the digestive tract like starch.
3. Feed too fast
This is a widespread problem. Babies have just started to add complementary foods, and their interest in food is at their strongest. Every time you eat complementary food, you can't wait, and it is easy for the baby to eat in a hurry, and the parents have no time to feed it. If parents do not pay attention to controlling the rhythm of feeding, it is easy to become a baby in a hurry to eat, and parents feed faster and faster. A mouthful of food is swallowed directly in the baby's mouth before it has time to chew, and the child quickly swallows a lot of air along with the food. These gases also increase the number of farts when they enter the gastrointestinal tract.
4. Feeding too much food in one mouthful
This is also a problem that parents tend to have. Sometimes when I see that the baby likes to eat, I feed a spoonful of food slowly each time, or parents are impatient to feed little by little, so they use a big spoon to feed a spoonful of food. There is too much food in one mouthful, and the baby has to desperately grow his mouth, swallowing more air while swallowing the food
Therefore, in the process of adding complementary foods, we should pay attention to the following details:
1. Choose a scientific and reasonable supplementary food addition plan
In our work, we meet many parents who either have no plan to add complementary food, and they can add whatever they feel their children can eat, or refer to some plans on the Internet, such as the following:
A total of 18 kinds of ingredients are added in the above plan, of which 7 are vegetables with high starch content in roots and stems, and there are 4 kinds of fruits.
In the above plan, a total of 13 kinds of ingredients were added, and although the number of starchy vegetables was reduced to 3, there was only one cruciferous vegetable that is easy to produce gas, but 5 kinds of fruits were added.
If parents follow such a plan to add complementary food, they will not only find that the number of farts in their children has increased, but also problems such as not liking to eat rice noodles, rejecting plain water, dry stool, and difficulty in defecation.
The principle of adding complementary foods is very important, from fine to coarse, from thin to thick transition, the order of adding ingredients can start from root ingredients, and attention needs to be paid to increasing the types of green leafy vegetables. Rich dietary fiber can inhibit the production of nitrogen in the intestines, reduce gas, and promote intestinal peristalsis and maintain the health of intestinal flora.
Don't try to add fruit to your child until you have added enough 10 kinds of vegetables, so as to avoid your baby developing a preference for sweetness and rejecting vegetables with a slightly astringent taste.
Purple potatoes and sweet potatoes appear in many complementary food recipes, because sweet potatoes and purple potatoes taste sweet, rich in starch and easy to whip into a delicate paste, and babies like to eat them very much. However, the starch content in sweet potatoes is relatively high, and the cellulose and pectin contained in sweet potatoes can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and are prone to bloating and farting. In addition, sweet potatoes contain oxidase, which produces a large amount of carbon dioxide gas after entering the gastrointestinal tract, which is more likely to cause bloating and farting. So don't give your baby sweet potatoes and purple potatoes too early.
2. Pay attention to control the speed when feeding complementary food
Babies eat too quickly and easily swallow more air. Therefore, when feeding complementary food, parents should pay attention to controlling the rhythm of feeding. After a spoonful of food is eaten by the baby, parents can put down the utensils, wait for a while, wait for the baby to taste the food, try to stir the food with the tongue, chew the food with the teeth, and wait for the food to be swallowed completely, the baby's mouth does not move, and then give the next bite.
3. Don't have too much food in one spoonful
You can choose a small coffee spoon to use as a food spoon. A spoonful of food that takes up one-third of a spoon is fine. If your baby eats the next bite of food and the food spills out of your baby's mouth, it means that there is too much food, and the next bite is a little less.
4. Choose a small spoon to feed complementary food
When choosing a complementary food spoon, pay attention to the width of the spoon as much as possible within 2 cm, too wide than the width of the baby's mouth, the baby needs to grow the mouth to do, and will swallow more air.
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