What to do if the child does not eat the lure
You need to gradually introduce your baby to new foods.starting with one spoon of pureed vegetables or fruits. Do not start introducing complementary foods if your baby is sick or teething, let the child get acquainted with new things in a good mood. The optimal time of day is the second or third morning feeding. Follow these simple rules:
- Take into account the feeding schedule; the child should want to eat.
- Give complementary foods only before breastfeeding or formula feeding, but not after.
- To make the taste of new food more familiar to your baby, add a few drops of breast milk or formula to a spoonful of puree.
- Find out what your baby likes.If the child flatly refuses to eat, for example, broccoli, do not insist! Offer another vegetable - zucchini, pumpkin, potatoes, and return to broccoli in a couple of weeks.
- Do not start feeding with sweet cereals and fruit purees, let the first food be vegetables. Otherwise, the baby, accustomed exclusively to sweet food, will not want to eat anything else at all.
If the child does not eat the lure, take your time and do notmake him Photo: Getty What if the child refuses to eat the lure, despite your efforts? If the kid does not burn with a desire to try "adult" food, do not panic. Try the method of "pedagogical complementary foods": every time, sitting down at the table, put a baby with him - let him see how you eat. Allow the child to pick up pieces of your food, study their smell and taste them. Of course, in this case, you will also have to adhere to a healthy diet - no sausages, sausages, fatty, fried and spicy food. So you will instill a child's interest in "adult" food.
What should not be done?
If the baby eats complementary foods poorly or not at allrefuses to try something new, wait - perhaps the time has not come yet. If the child is gaining weight and developing normally, there is nothing to worry about. And you certainly shouldn't:
- to force the child to eat new food, to feed him by force,
- try to distract the child with cartoons or toys,
- add sugar to the lure that "he liked"
- try to feed the well-fed child.
Don't worry in vain, just be patient and your baby will happily have breakfast, lunch and dinner at the common table. Read also:
