Spring is here, and it's a matter of "growing up".
It has been taken seriously by many parents again
Previously through my daughter's height record
I shared an article about my child's heightening
Recording the height of the daughter for 4 years, so that the child grows up is a technical job
Today we're going to talk about babies under one year old
The problem of how to analyze the height lagging behind
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The growth and development characteristics of babies under one year old and children and adolescents are different, if the baby has the problem of not meeting the height standard, it is recommended to analyze from the following aspects:
The first thing to understand is that normal human growth is pulse-like, and there are phases between rapid growth periods that may not be measurable. It is important to provide adequate nutrition to meet your child's growth and development needs during critical periods. For example, in the first 2 years of life, the baby's height growth is initially very rapid and then gradually slows down, during which the overall height growth is 30-35 cm. The height of 2-4 years old increases by 5.5-9 cm per year, 4-6 years old is 5-8 cm, and from 6 years old to puberty, the growth rate slows down, boys grow 4-6 cm per year, girls grow 4.5-6.5 cm per year. It can be seen that before the age of 2 is the most significant change in the child's body shape.
Generally, the problem of backward height and weight of infants and young children should first look at whether the child's growth curve is within the normal range, observe and analyze the child's growth trend, rather than just looking at whether the child's height is up to standard at a certain point in time.
Weight is an important indicator of the child's recent nutritional status, and weight deviation will affect the child's height (length), and if the weight is too low or too high, it will affect the height.
When parents encounter in our work when analyzing the height of their children, most of them only consider calcium supplementation or vitamin D supplementation, but in fact, it is not only calcium and vitamin D that affect the height of children, but also the main hormones related to height: growth hormone, thyroid hormone, sex hormones, in addition to insulin and vitamin D and its active products that affect calcium and phosphorus metabolism.
In infancy, height is mainly influenced by thyroid hormones, growth hormones, and nutrition. During this period, the child's nutrition is particularly crucial, and it is mainly related to growth factors. This stage is different from the 3-10 years old and the adolescent stage, and parents should not only consider calcium supplementation.
Moreover, many studies have found that micronutrients such as zinc, calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin A are closely related to children's growth, and the levels of these micronutrients in children with growth retardation are generally lower than those of normal children. According to the Nutrition and Health Monitoring Report of Chinese Residents (2015-2017), the intake of multiple micronutrients in mainland children is generally lower than the recommended intake.
This is also validated by the families we meet in our work. Now many parents are from the Internet to get the advice of complementary food addition, although some parents also know that the complementary food addition should be from thin to thick transition, from one to a variety of transitions, from plant ingredients to animal food transition, but what to eat first and then what to eat, thin to be more thin, thick and thick, how to operate completely depends on the parents themselves, in addition to the child when eating complementary food some behaviors seem to interfere with eating, parents can not correctly understand and take some wrong feeding methods to solve, it is easier to cause children to be picky eaters, The problem of picky eating.
Therefore, to solve the problem of children's backward height, it is necessary not only to look at the growth curve, but also to review whether there are problems with previous diet and feeding behavior.
This is the Chinese Nutrition Society Rich Nutrition Branch of the preparation of the "7 ~ 24 months old infant balanced diet pagoda", first refer to this suggestion to see whether there are all kinds of food in the daily supply of complementary food for children, whether each type of food is sufficient, and the focus is on the proportion of livestock and poultry meat, fish, vegetables and fruits, and finally check whether the milk amount is up to standard.
The common problems that parents encounter in our work are:
1. The type of seafood is too simple
Affected by regional eating habits, most of the coastal cities are fine, and the types of seafood eaten by families in inland cities are often the ones that they can handle, make, and make more delicious. Seafood that has never been eaten, never seen, cannot be cooked, and cannot be processed is rarely eaten or even not eaten at all.
If parents don't eat it, they won't give it to their children.
For example, it can be said that 80% of the complementary food recipes on the Internet use only cod, at most scallops, and in fact, many seafood products are good sources of high-quality protein, vitamins, zinc, and iodine. Zinc is involved in cell division and growth, and is composed of many enzymes in the body, and if zinc is deficient, it can cause taste disorders and growth retardation.
If you're not good at making seafood, you can refer to our baby meal pairings:
【Seafood】Fish, shellfish, shrimp and crab, zinc and DHA
2. More fruits, less vegetables
This is also a problem that often occurs in the early stage of complementary food addition.
Many parents think that green leafy vegetables are tough and rich in dietary fiber, which is "too hard" for their children and dare not give them to them. Therefore, when adding complementary foods, most of them choose potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, yams, broccoli and other ingredients that are easy to whip into a delicate paste, or use fruits instead of vegetables. Add a few spoonfuls of pureed vegetables to a bowl of rice noodles and provide plenty of fruit, or a staple food with more meat and less vegetables.
Mixing a bowl of food like this allows children to repeatedly strengthen their swallowing, and they cannot exercise their chewing, which greatly increases the risk of picky eating in the future.
With more fruits and fewer vegetables, children prefer crisp, sweet, and watery fruits, and are also prone to rejection of complementary foods.
3. Eat little or no animal liver
Animal liver is a good source of vitamin A, which is involved in cell differentiation and maturation. Vitamin A deficiency affects calcium absorption and feedback-regulates the secretion of parathyroid hormone, resulting in a decrease in bone mass and growth retardation.
Most of the families we meet in our work do not have the habit of eating animal liver, and most parents only make some pork liver powder for their children when they eliminate allergies in the early stage of adding complementary foods, but after eating one or two to eliminate allergies, they will basically not give them to their children again.
We share a variety of animal offal in the baby food pairing, such as the chicken heart added to the small balls below
Meat bowl with chicken liver
"Chicken rice flower" made with chicken liver
A small month-old baby's meal made with pig blood
All in all, if you want your child's height to catch up, you can't just consider what you eat to grow taller, but whether your child's diet can meet your child's nutritional needs and whether there are any problems in feeding that affect your child's good eating habits. If parents are lazy when making complementary food, there is no way to talk about children's nutritional satisfaction. If the child has eating problems such as picky eating and picky eating, then even if the parents make nutritionally balanced complementary foods, the children can eat very limited.
Therefore, this problem can not only consider how to add complementary food or how to match complementary food, but also from the child's current nutritional status, growth and development, details of complementary food production and feeding, etc., in order to truly solve the problem.