Almost all mothers have experienced this scene-
I worked so hard to change the pattern and made several supplementary foods. I sent them to the little baby’s dining table with great expectation, thinking that this meal must have been delicious ~ Who knows, the little ancestor’s little face and a wave of his small hand, the hot meal you just made was lying flat on the dining table with a thud.
The old mother really couldn’t understand why, isn’t this your favorite Metapenaeus ensis? Didn’t you love this steamed cake yesterday? Why are you unhappy again?
Speaking of children not eating, the reasons are very different. Today I will talk to you about 11 reasons why you may not think of not eating.
Insufficient capacity
When the baby is born, it can coordinate sucking, swallowing and breathing, and is ready to drink liquid food from the mother’s breast or bottle.
However, being able to sit on one’s own, control one’s head, grab food, and even eat by oneself with a spoon … These things need to be learned slowly and are not skills that one has at birth.
From palm grip to thumb, index finger and palm surface grip, and finally to accurate index finger and thumb distal grip; Then you can scoop up things with a spoon, but you cannot rotate your wrist to keep food from falling off the spoon. Finally, you can eat skillfully by yourself, and you can also rotate your wrist and raise your elbow to prevent the food on the spoon from falling off.
If you don’t develop at the corresponding stage and exercise the corresponding ability, it may lead to the appearance that the child deliberately doesn’t eat well.
Too much food was given
Every mother wants her child to eat more, so out of kindness, you may want to give your child a bigger bowl and dinner plate. But for children, if the plates and bowls you give them are too big and full, it will put too much pressure on them to eat.
Therefore, it is necessary to provide dinner plates and food quantities commensurate with the children’s age according to their age.
You know, the actual food given to the baby is less than you want them to eat. If the child’s appetite is not satisfied, they will also take the initiative to ask for more food.
Too cold or too hot
Some children have a special preference for food temperature, like cold and hot, or especially like food in a certain temperature range (of course, eating too hot is unhealthy and dangerous).
Or you may not like some ingredients in a certain state. For example, our younger brother likes to eat raw cucumbers, and you don’t like them when they are cooked or when they are mixed with vinegar.
Therefore, mother can also pay extra attention to whether there is such a situation.
Strange smell
Some ingredients naturally have some special tastes, such as celery with a little earthy taste, garlic with a strong garlic taste, leeks also seem to have a little garlic taste, onion with a special smell, Toona sinensis, chrysanthemum, green pepper, coriander, carrot, etc.
From one point of view, although they are some natural condiments, from another point of view, for these more sensitive babies, it is really possible that they cannot accept such ingredients, and may even refuse all foods that he thinks have [strange] taste.
The order of placement is out of order.
At some stage of the child, what you do may not be pleasing to his eyes. Most of the reason is that you did not follow the order expected by his heart, and some places are also called “order sensitive period”.
In the matter of eating, for example, the food is not placed in a specific order, the bowl is not given to him first but the spoon is given first, the food is given first instead of the meal, the green vegetables are not given first but the red meat is given first, etc., the hands are not clapped before eating, etc. (only you can’t think of it), all these may cause the child to refuse to eat.
However, you don’t have to worry too much. Usually, if it is for this reason, the child will erupt immediately! So you will surely know how long you will be next time.
I don’t like food sticking together.
There are also some children who have their own set of standards for the state of food.
For example, the food on the plate cannot be glued to each other, but should be placed separately. All kinds of colors should not be mixed together. What must not be a hodgepodge. All kinds of colors must be kept clean and separately.
I don’t even like the taste of some foods, such as the feeling that peanut butter on bread will stick to my mouth…
Well, in fact, there is nothing wrong with the baby. It’s all the bad of the big momma.
I don’t like to mix all the ingredients together.
We have always said that children should eat a balanced diet and eat as many different kinds of ingredients as possible every day. Of course, we also recommend that all kinds of ingredients be mixed together to make steamed buns, stewed rice and wonton dumplings ~ (I like them very much myself! )
However, some children just don’t like to mix the ingredients together and vomit clean for you!
For these children, it is still the same to separate honestly, what should be what is, set it up for him, let him mix in his stomach…
The quality is not right.
In addition to having special requirements on the color and state of food, most children also have special requirements on the texture of food. !
For example, our younger brother especially likes to eat hard, hard and crisp food. Yes, it is the raw cucumber I cited above, and similar ones include carrots, western blue flowers, chrysanthemum poles and so on… Anyway, soft food is not so fond of.
Not cut into the shape you like
I think this may be the reason why I can’t think of it until I am a mother.
When our family eats egg cakes with a lot of money, we must ask him:
Is it going to be cut into what shape today?
Then you cut it according to the shape he said, and he can finish the whole cake neatly.
If you don’t cut him in the right order (for example, cut rectangles first and then triangles), or cut them into small strips without asking him for advice at all, you may encounter difficulties in eating.
Sit uncomfortably
There is also a very important point, which may be ignored by children themselves-uncomfortable sitting (nonsense, you don’t know, of course they don’t know).
In fact, the position of the child’s body is very important when eating. There should be something to support the child’s feet. The height of the chair should also make the height of the child’s chest equal to that of the table, so that he can sit more comfortably.
At the beginning of eating supplementary food, it is recommended to buy a special dining chair to adjust to the appropriate height.
Supplementary food tools are not suitable for
I have also written about the selection of some supplementary food tools before.
Plates and cups for children should be made of non-breakable materials and should have a certain weight that is not easy to knock over. For babies of small age, shallower bowls are usually more suitable for them to scoop than plates.
As for spoons, thick, short-handled spoons and forks are easier for babies to grab.
In a word: the child does not eat is just a result, the reason behind it can be very particular. Cai Ma also wrote an article to analyze the reason why the baby does not eat before. Welcome to scan the two-dimensional code below and pay attention to my public number [Cai Ma and Qian Pa], and reply to the keyword [Don’t Eat] and you can receive it! I hope I can help you become a better mother and have less anxiety on the way to child-rearing.
-References-
[1] [US] By L. Kathleen Mahan, translated by Du Shouyue and Chen Wei. < >
[2] Hong Kong Department of Health. Progress in Healthy Diet for Infants Aged 6-24 Months