Even if the child has no teeth, it is very important. This is useful for mastering chewing skills in the future.
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Solid food
The fact is that the first chewing movementsappear already in about six months, when most babies do not have teeth. Initially, the baby learns to chew gums. And if this chewing reflex is not backed up by practice, then gradually it fades. I know kids who, in more than two years, still can not eat soup, if it is not ground to a consistency of mashed potatoes. Babies just choke or do not swallow, as they began to get used to solid food for a long time. Therefore, from the age of eight to nine months, it is definitely possible and necessary to offer the baby to take pieces by hand. For example, offer a banana or a soft pear. This will also help to develop tweezers grip and coordinate the work of the hands and mouth. It is better not to mix the pieces with puree food, the baby will be more difficult to understand. Approximately after 12 months, most of the children are ready to move to a common table. We in a year and a month noticed that the daughter stopped enjoying any puree food, she categorically refused it. At the same time, the same vegetables, cooked in cubes, became much more attractive for her.
Feed the nehochuhu
According to my experience, the first weeks of my daughterreally tried to eat all the vegetables that I offered her. But after about a month, she began to strongly repel the spoon and plate, did not even open her mouth. I experienced, every day again and again put her in the stool and tried to feed. It seemed to me that all children eat and open their mouths happily, and only we do not! Now I would definitely not do so. I would leave the baby for a few weeks alone, sometimes offering food. And she waited until she wanted to try again. This is not worth the experience, the baby is still small, and you do not need to make it exactly. This can scare the baby and severely damage the nerves of mom, but in the end will not lead to a positive result. In addition, when her daughter started to actively bite her teeth, she again refused to eat. And this is also the norm. Children hurt, spoon irritates. And when the tooth cuts, then the feeding should be adjusted. Lack of appetite can also be a sign of the onset of illness in the baby, it's worth paying attention to immediately. But we had problems with food almost constantly, I can count the days when all meals were ideal. There was a period when the daughter stopped sitting in the chair for feeding. I literally went all the way around the kitchen with a plate and a spoon, and that's the only way she ate. Then I stopped doing that. Then we both realized that it was wrong that they only eat at the table and that there would not be any other way. In order to feed the baby, which I just do not do, for example:
- I sit next to her and eat too (it's better that you and your baby eat the same thing);
- I feed my daughter from her plate;
- I tell fairy tales, I include audiobooks with verses, I give pictures;
- I plant next to her favorite doll, which we feed from a spoon together;
- on the table in front of the baby I put small pieces of favorite food (cheese, bread, grapes, pear, tomato), while she eats with pleasure, I feed her in parallel from a spoon;
- I exclude snacks between meals.
I will not dissemble, sometimes nothing ofthe above does not help. The daughter may refuse to sit in the high chair, do not open her mouth, throw off food on the floor or spit out bits. At the same time there is a special apron my child flatly refuses. She immediately cries, and it becomes completely unreal to feed on. And now I'm looking at this picture, and my hands just go down. The daughter herself all messed up, after each meal the jacket, and sometimes the trousers fly into the laundry. Table, chair, and sometimes the floor around dirty. But getting used to washing the floors several times a day turned out to be the simplest. If the child at the same time ate, then cleaning does not bother me at all. But it happens that the baby did not ate at all. And every time I wonder what went wrong. At this the daughter sits with such arrogant face and so artistically turns her head, saying "pff" that I want to quickly get out of the way with all the spoons and plates taken together. It is easiest to leave the child in rest, get out of the chair and captivate the game. But sometimes I just can not leave a child hungry, and I have to come up with more and more new ways. I know that the basis for a good meal is a hungry, uptight child. And I often hear that the child will not leave himself hungry. But at the same time I can not believe that my child did not walk up an appetite for five hours. It is important to remember that if a kid has no problems with weight deficit, with a chair, the child himself is active, behaves as usual, he has enough food. And the problem is more in my mother's head. Especially while the baby receives, in addition to complementary feeding, milk or a mixture.
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Cartoons with food
I know that so many parents include cartoons during feeding. I'll tell you what the danger of this method is:
- The child is inferior in controlling the portion volume, which increases the risk of overeating;
- the kid does not pay attention to the food itself, taste buds do not distinguish between different tastes;
- less gastric juice and saliva is released, which does not contribute to the formation of a healthy appetite.
Therefore, the emphasis should be onfood and the process of eating, as far as possible without distraction. In theory, this all sounds very convincing, but in practice everything is not always the case. I was totally against the cartoons during the meal. But I was so strongly persuaded by other moms that it's not scary at all, everyone does that, and that's really the way out ... and I gave up. For example, I understand that the baby has not eaten for four hours, and we will soon go to the doctor. But she again refuses. And for the first time I switched on the multik. In fact, everything turned out not quite as many mothers say. Sometimes my daughter is so annoyed with the meal that no cartoon will make her even sit in a chair. Or she will eat a few spoons, then she will turn away or spit food. And it happens that this method really works. Now I decided that in the most extreme cases I can use this method. After all, a hungry child will be discontented and capricious. And it will help to save both my and her nerves. I will feed my daughter on time, we can go on time on time, and the entire regime of the day will not be disturbed. Now we have more and less successful periods. Sometimes the products that were yesterday the most loved, today categorically do not like. Every time you have to look for new keys to this mysterious girl. But I know that now this is one of my tasks - to feed my daughter. And I believe that as we grow older, the problem will gradually be solved. It will be easier to agree, explain and find out what it is that does not like and interferes with a normal dinner. Also interesting:
