Slow weight gain and underweight babies are always a constant concern of mothers, many mothers want to help their children get rid of stunting soon, so they try to force their children to eat. However, mothers need to know that gaining weight in a child requires time and the right method, suitable for the child's developmental stage.
To gain weight, the first thing is that the mother must help the child eat more and more importantly, through the meal, the child's body can bring into play the nutritional value provided. Please refer to the following "great ways" to help your baby gain weight
Respect your child's "taste"
Slow weight gain is usually the result of the body's inadequate nutrition. In the process of preparing food for their children, most parents often season to their taste, and choose nutritious foods even if the baby does not like it. You know, children at 1 year old already have the senses of eating, so you should not impose the menu on your child. To help children improve weight, moms should change from nutritional habits for children, starting with feeding children favorite foods. After that, moms should skillfully let children move to more nutritious foods or a mixture of foods they love and add-ons. After a while, your baby will get used to many delicious and nutritious foods.
Respecting the child's "taste" is one of the solutions to improve anorexia
Variety of dishes
The principle of "forever" nutrition for mothers is to ensure correct and sufficient, variety of foods as possible, each meal ensures a complete combination of 4 food groups: flour (rice, vermicelli, pho, noodles, pasta ...), protein (meat, fish, eggs, shrimp, crab, eel, beans ...), fat (oil, fat), and vegetables, fruits. In addition, in a baby's daily diet, mothers should not maintain a dish for too long, eating too long a dish will lack nutrition and make the child quickly bored and not even want to eat.
In the period of children from 1-3 years old is the period when babies want to assert themselves, they are learning the world around them so they easily forget to eat, mothers should not worry impatiently and pressured to make children feel “ afraid to eat ”.
Each meal for children ensures to combine all 4 food groups
Quality is more important than quantity
To help children gain weight quickly, many mothers try to force their children to lead to anorexia in children. The fact that mothers do not like to eat certain foods are very worried. To overcome this, first of all, mothers should not be too tense in each child's meal, weigh a few cups of porridge, a few tens of ml of milk, if you see that your baby can eat less can add yogurt or cream, I will still ensure enough quality. Should practice for your baby to have good eating habits by building a scientific diet and feeding method. Mother should let the baby decide how much and what to eat, encourage the baby to eat, not force, patiently practice the baby to eat the foods he does not like. Make sure your baby enters the meal, enters the milk in a state of hunger so that he / she has a good appetite (by not feeding snacks, 2-3 hours from the meal), feeding with the family,
Practice good eating habits for your baby by building a
scientific diet and feeding style
Provide more nutrition through snacks
After the main meal, the baby should eat more yogurt, milk, fruit ... to help him improve nutrition, increase absorption very well. Snacks before bedtime will help babies fall asleep and sleep better. However, mothers remember not to feed babies too full before going to bed.
Every day, children should eat 5-6 meals instead of just 3 meals. When sharing meals like this, children do not feel like having to eat a lot each meal or trying to force-feed.
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