A baby\’s good appetite is inseparable from chewing training when adding complementary foods.

The importance of baby chewing training. Sometimes babies don\’t like to eat complementary foods. It may be that parents have neglected the baby\’s chewing training during the feeding process. Today, Doudehui will introduce the development of chewing ability of babies of different months of age, and gradually add complementary foods according to the level of chewing ability of babies of different months of age. 6-12 months is a critical period for babies to develop chewing and swallowing skills. Learning after the critical period will be relatively difficult. When the baby bites up and down, it means that his ability to chew food has been initially developed, and parents should carry out targeted training in time. 1: 4-6 months, whole swallowing period training focus: swallowing complementary food characteristics: pasty, muddy. After 4 months, the baby\’s sucking and swallowing liquid food movements have matured, and eating is basically swallowing whole. , sometimes retching will occur when swallowing, because the child\’s tongue thrust reflex has not completely disappeared. The tongue has also become more flexible. It will try to use the movements of the tongue and mouth to swallow the paste food or juice in the mouth. Milk food can be drunk smoothly without flowing out easily. However, the movements are not very coordinated, and sometimes the food is pushed out or only a small amount of food is eaten. This stage is more suitable for adding pureed food. Starting from 6 months old, you can use a small spoon to feed your baby pureed food, such as rice cereal, egg yolk puree, vegetable puree, fruit puree, teething biscuits, etc., so that the baby has the opportunity to train his oral cavity. Actions. At first, the baby will more or less push out or spit out the food. If you feed it patiently a few times, you will find that the probability of the baby eating the food is getting higher and higher. 2: 7-9 months, tongue grinding period training focus: biting and chewing characteristics of complementary foods: finer solids. Some 7-month-old babies have begun to grow teeth. During this period, the baby\’s chewing and swallowing abilities will be better than those of the previous one. As the stage progresses, the baby will try to use the gums to chew food up and down, and the baby\’s desire to take the initiative to eat will also increase. Mothers can provide more diverse complementary foods and make the complementary foods harder or thicker than at 6 months of age. The form of complementary food at this stage is semi-liquid or semi-solid, such as vegetable puree, coarse fruit puree, fruit sticks, bread slices, tofu and porridge. The food should be from thin to thick, and the particles should be from fine to coarse. Start by adding a small amount of small pieces of solid food to the pureed food, and then slowly increase the amount of solid food as the baby adapts. You can also provide your baby with some food that needs to be chewed to develop your baby\’s chewing ability and promote the eruption of teeth. If the baby has teeth, you can also provide the baby with some fruit bars or small pieces of toast, teething sticks, and teething biscuits. By biting and gnawing these foods, stimulating the gums can help the baby teeth erupt, relieve the baby\’s teething discomfort, prevent the baby from biting the mother\’s nipple, and train the baby\’s chewing function. 3: 10-12 months, focus of chewing period training: Characteristics of chewing complementary foods: Semi-solid or solid babies’ chewing ability and oral movements are more coordinated, and they will try to crush or bite off food first, and then perform simple chewing movements. Starting from this stage, whether the baby can chew food well will also have an impact on the development of teeth. Proper chewing can stimulate the growth of deciduous teeth and promote the development of mandibular and facial muscles. Complementary foods are mainly in semi-solid or solid form, such as soft noodles and vegetables.Porridge, meat porridge, minced meat, steamed eggs and boiled vegetables, etc. To cultivate your baby\’s ability to eat on his own, prepare a waterproof bib and a small spoon suitable for grasping, so that your baby can scoop up food and eat it. It can also train your baby\’s hand-eye coordination and self-care abilities. The three meals are mainly supplemented by complementary food and milk, and about 3-4 times of complementary food and 2 times of milk are provided a day. Mothers need to start training their babies to drink from water cups. Initially, they can use water cups with straws, and then gradually change to ordinary duckbill cups. Four: Over 12 months, the focus of chewing intensive training period: Characteristics of swallowing complementary foods after chewing: thicker solids. As the teeth erupt and improve, the baby\’s oral movements become richer, the chewing and swallowing movements are coordinated, and the baby can gradually use the teeth. Crush and chew. Complementary food is mainly in the form of solid food, which can be given to babies with various types of food that are easy to digest, such as fish, white rice, vegetables cut into sections, fruits cut into pieces, etc. Foods that are difficult to digest or too greasy are still not suitable for babies to eat. You can choose softer and easier-to-chew foods from adult foods for your baby to try. Parents can take advantage of the baby\’s tendency to imitate and often demonstrate chewing movements to the baby. Chew each mouthful of food slowly, preferably more than 10 times per mouthful. Parents should gradually guide their children to eat independently, and parents must not feed them or use bottles to drink water or milk for a long time. You can usually provide your baby with toys that train or stimulate oral movements, such as trumpets, whistles, etc. You can also teach your baby to blow paper, bubbles, etc. There are many reasons why babies don\’t like to eat, such as not liking the ingredients of complementary foods, feeling uncomfortable, difficulty chewing, temporary anorexia, etc. Mothers should analyze it in detail!