7 Reasons to Affect Your Baby's Appetite
How big is the baby's appetite?
Before understanding poor baby's appetite, you must first understand how much your baby needs in a day's calories and how much to eat to meet your baby's growth and development needs. Many mothers worry about the amount of milk they drink, and they hope that doctors can tell you how many times they feed or feed. The length of time for feeding.
In fact, as long as the baby is hungry, the mother can start breast feeding until the baby is full and naturally turns his head away or releases his mouth. For infants who drink baby formula (within four months), the amount of milk per kilogram (baby's weight) is about 150cc, for example, for a baby of 4kg, the total amount of milk per day is about 150cc x 4 = 600cc. After one year old, the foods other than mother's milk and formula milk become the main food for the baby, and the amount of milk is reduced to one cup or one bottle in the morning and evening.
Some mothers may worry that if the baby sometimes eats too much and sometimes eats less, will it affect the baby's nutritional needs for growth? Experts say that when the baby is six months old or younger, the total amount of milk usually does not increase substantially, even gradually. Decrease, there will be less in summer. Parents should first look at the baby's growth and development. 'Growth' refers to the length of the head and can refer to the baby's health care manual for the percentile of growth that has fallen below the third percentile or has dropped sharply in a short period of time. 'Development' refers to whether the baby has reached the age of maturity, such as the rise of four months, turn five to six months, seven months will sit, eight months will climb and so on.
In addition, the mother can also judge whether the baby is full or not by the time the baby sucks, the baby's facial expression, and the number of urination:
1-3 days of birth: stool color is dark green, sticky, that is, fetal stool.
4-7 days of birth: The stool is affected by the food, the color fades, and it gradually turns yellow-brown, and the amount of urine also increases.
About 1 month after birth: The baby's sucking time is about 20-30 minutes at a time. The baby's face has a sense of satisfaction; the number of urinating is more than 6 times a day, and the person who drinks breastmilk usually has more than 3 times of stool.
Birth 1-2 months: The number and time of the baby's milk intake is gradually fixed, and the baby's gastrointestinal development is more mature, and the number of baby stools decreases.
Bad appetite is not necessarily all hot
1, feeding utensils change
Some babies who drink grandmother are very smooth, but the amount of milk in another bottle and pacifier is less. The original baby also has a period of adaptation to the milk, if blindly changing the baby is easy to cause the baby's difficulty in sucking.
2, enter the milky period
After the baby has grown up to four months, it begins to enter into a milky period, the so-called "secondary food period." At this time, the baby will show some actions, such as when the bottle close to the mouth, it will obviously turn his head away, or his mouth tightly closed, and even push it away. This means that the baby has begun to want to eat something different! Experts suggest that, after adding a new type of non-staple food per week as a benchmark, wait for the baby to adapt to the first type of non-staple food before changing to a second kind of non-staple food...
After the baby gets used to porridge, pureed meat, and pureed vegetables, it is slowly added to the porridge and becomes a meat porridge or a pureed porridge, which increases dietary changes and tastes.
3, irritating dishes
After entering the supplementary food stage, some babies have good appetite, but they immediately spit it out after eating. Parents should pay attention to whether the baby is allowed to eat too irritating foods, such as spicy, sour, alkaline and other irritating seasoning foods or food. Large chunks of fiber are too thick for the baby to digest. Nutrition experts said that because infants and young children's gastrointestinal function is not yet mature, parents should avoid allowing their children to develop habits of heavy taste during infant and young children. Mommy can also add citrus fruits instead of lemons and vinegar to enhance your baby's appetite!
4, baby physical discomfort
If the baby has vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, parents should promptly hand over the baby to a doctor for treatment.
Experts also said that when the weather is hot, the baby sometimes eats too much because of mood and environmental factors. Parents need not worry too much. If the baby's growth curve is within a reasonable range, the spirit is good, there is no discomfort such as bloating, constipation, and diarrhea. The best way is to not force him to eat!
5, the weather is hot
When the weather is hot, my mother's main job is to reduce the room temperature. Eating in an air-conditioned room will make it easier than eating in other rooms.
6. Atmosphere during dinner
The baby's feelings are quite sensitive. If the atmosphere in the home is not good or is scolded, it will also affect the baby's emotional response. Experts suggest that when your baby reaches 7 to 8 months, you can let the baby learn to eat. If the food spills over the floor, do not rush to scream loudly. Allow children to have room for self-learning.
7, taking medicine will also affect appetite
If your baby has a cold, some cold medicine may affect your baby's appetite at this time. If your parents still can't rest assured, you can ask the doctor to give a better cold medicine or choose a cold syrup.
Four tricks to increase baby’s appetite
1, to reduce external stimuli: When the baby eats, try to let the baby concentrate, the surrounding environment to avoid too noisy, watching TV, toys, or light stimulation.
2, before the meal may wish to take a shower, appetite will be better: after playing with the baby, the mother may wish to try to help the baby to take a bath, you will find the baby's appetite becomes better Oh! because the baby playing, after consumption of heat, the emotion is still In the state of excitement, if you first help the baby to take a comfortable bath and soothe your baby's emotions, just like the adults finish their hot springs and relax, they will naturally have the same appetite!
3, for the baby to prepare his special tableware: help the baby to prepare a cute shape of the dishes and spoons, so that they have their own exclusive tableware, will allow the baby to eat better and more involved!
4, the use of seasonal fruits and vegetables: As the summer is hot and intolerable, not only the appetite of adults affected, the baby's appetite better or worse performance! Mom may wish to change the cooking method. Camp experts suggest that mothers can make cold dishes, or add seasonal fruit purees in the non-staple foods, such as pineapples, mangoes, and other ingredients, so that the baby is appetizing and eating more happily!
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