This parenting knowledge is actually wrong, correct it immediately

Ever since I gave birth to a baby, I have always had experienced childcare experts from all walks of life come to me and tell me how I should take care of my baby. Although I also know that everyone has good intentions. However, some outdated parenting experiences are inevitable. If you continue to follow the wrong parenting methods, you will only harm your baby. So, what are some common misconceptions about parenting that confuse everyone? Let\’s take a look together. Do baby food supplements have to be added in order? In many people\’s minds, when adding complementary foods to babies, they usually feed high-iron rice noodles first, followed by vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, etc. However, the latest advice given by the Chinese Nutrition Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics is that cereals, vegetables, fruits, meat, and eggs can all be added to babies after 6 months of age, and there is no order of addition requirements. But before trying new complementary foods every time, you should pay attention to adding a small amount. Only add one new food at a time, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to thick, step by step. Each time you introduce a new food, you should adapt to it for 2 to 3 days. Closely observe whether there are any adverse reactions such as vomiting, diarrhea, rash, etc. After adapting to one food, you can add other new foods. If your baby is allergic to this food, just avoid it in the future. There is no need to preventively delay adding ingredients that should be added. Moreover, there is currently no research showing that babies must eat rice noodles as their first complementary food. The Chinese Nutrition Society stated that the baby\’s first complementary food should start with iron-rich puree food, and then gradually introduce other complementary foods on the basis of iron-rich food, and finally achieve food diversification. The reason why people like to choose iron-rich infant rice cereal as their baby\’s first complementary food is because compared to other iron-rich puree foods, rice cereal is the best to obtain. Therefore, in addition to iron-fortified rice noodles, parents can also add a variety of red meat puree (lean meat from pigs, cows, and sheep) to their babies with good iron-supplementing effects. There is no sequence in adding complementary foods. The most important thing is to ensure adequate iron intake in the early stages of adding complementary foods. Can you supplement calcium for your baby by basking in the sun? Many people believe that basking in the sun represents calcium supplementation. But in fact, there is no direct relationship between sunbathing and calcium supplementation, and most babies are not calcium deficient. The main purpose of sunbathing is to synthesize vitamin D, and vitamin D is the main factor in promoting calcium absorption. Therefore, most people habitually think that sunbathing is calcium supplement, and even some doctors will describe vitamin D deficiency as calcium deficiency. In daily life, as long as the baby drinks enough daily milk, whether it is breast milk or formula milk, the baby\’s demand for calcium can be ensured. Most of the time, although calcium intake is sufficient, the absorption effect is not necessarily good. In order to promote the absorption of calcium in the small intestine and increase its utilization, you should consider supplementing your baby with vitamin D. The main sources of vitamin D are from food or supplements, and exposure to the sun. For babies who are breastfed and fed complementary foods, there is very little vitamin D in breastmilk and food, and they need to supplement with additional vitamin D, insisting on 400IU/d. Babies who receive formula milk can obtain the corresponding calcium and vitamin D needs from formula milk as long as they ensure a normal milk volume (1L). Sunbathing is undoubtedly the most economical way to supplement vitamin D. But syntheticVitamin D and sun protection and skin care cannot go together. If you don\’t use the sun properly, deliberately expose yourself to direct sunlight, it can easily damage your baby\’s delicate skin, and its intensity and conversion rate are difficult to control. Therefore, babies under 6 months old should avoid direct sunlight, and babies under 12 months old should stay in a cool place. Although babies can spend more time outdoors, they must also do physical sun protection. Don’t go out in the sun just to replenish vitamin D. If you pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon, the gain outweighs the loss! Can eating more egg yolks provide iron supplements to babies? There has been a rumor circulating that egg yolks should be given to babies for iron supplementation, but as can be seen from the previous content, egg yolks are not the first choice for iron supplementation. Because iron supplementation is not the strong point of egg yolk, the absorption rate of iron in egg yolk is not high. The more important role of egg yolk is to provide some other important nutrients, such as riboflavin, lecithin, vitamin A, etc. The first choice for iron supplementation is high-iron supplements rich in heme iron. Among them, iron-fortified rice noodles are the most convenient. Meat, liver, blood, etc. are also key foods for making high-iron supplements. Will wearing diapers cause O-shaped legs for babies? Many elderly people don\’t like to wear diapers for their babies, thinking that diapers will suffocate the baby, and some say that diapers will cause O-shaped legs in the baby. In fact, most babies will start trying to walk on their own when they are 10 to 12 months old, and they will be able to walk steadily by the age of 1 year. The legs of infants and young children seem to be a little bent. Many of them have mild O-shaped legs when they are about 1 year old. As the baby develops, they will have mild X-shaped legs, and then they will return to normal. In rare cases, O-shaped legs and X-shaped legs are caused by diseases. When compared with babies of the same age, if the legs are severely bent or the legs are asymmetrical, you need to seek medical treatment. If rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, vitamin D supplementation is needed to treat it. O-shaped legs have nothing to do with whether the baby stands prematurely. If you don’t like drinking plain water, can you use freshly squeezed juice instead? Some babies don\’t like to drink plain water, so parents will give their babies juice, thinking that freshly squeezed juice without additives can also supplement vitamin C for their babies. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently issued guidelines that babies under 1 year old should not drink fruit juice. Because after the pulp is juiced, the main nutrient in the juice is water, the secondary nutrient is carbohydrate, and the dietary fiber that plays a key role is almost zero. Moreover, juice is not only nutritious, but also poses a great threat to the baby\’s health. Once the baby develops the habit of drinking juice, it may lead to him only liking sweet drinks and refusing to drink plain water, which may lead to overweight and obesity. Drinking fruit juice for a long time may also cause dental caries. For babies, the best drink is always boiled water. Can\’t you vaccinate your baby when he has a cold? During the period when your baby has a cold, as long as he has no fever or has subsided, he can be vaccinated. Parents who are really worried can wait until their baby is in good condition before getting vaccinated. But this condition is good, as long as parents make judgments based on their own experience, and there is no need to consult a doctor for judgment. When vaccinating, the contraindications that need to be paid attention to generally include serious organ diseases; fever caused by acute infection; babies who are allergic to vaccine components and have immune deficiencies cannot be vaccinated.Seedling. Are warm water baths and alcohol body rubs the first choice for babies with fever? When most parents see their baby has a fever, they habitually give the baby a bath with a wet towel and put an antipyretic patch on it. Some even use alcohol to wipe the baby\’s body directly in order to reduce the fever quickly. However, no authoritative organization currently regards these methods as the first choice for reducing fever, especially alcohol body rub, which is even more wrong! The American Academy of Pediatrics points out that unless the fever is extremely high, fever will not harm your baby and may even be beneficial. The main purpose of reducing fever is to ensure the comfort of the baby. You can wear less clothing, open windows for ventilation, turn on the air conditioner, and take antipyretic drugs such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen to reduce the discomfort of fever. If the baby is in a normal state of mind when he has a fever, no measures are needed; if the temperature reaches 38.5°C and the baby is uncomfortable, he needs to take antipyretics. The latest version of the Fever Guidelines in 2016 no longer recommends the physical cooling method of warm water bath, because the new view is that the use of antipyretic drugs combined with warm water sponge bath is more effective in reducing fever in a short period of time, but it will increase the number of children suffering from fever. Discomfort, such as crying, chills, and goosebumps on the skin. It is not recommended to take bath with ice water (ice pillow, ice cubes). In practical applications, most clinicians now believe that warm water bathing can still be performed if the baby is not very resistant and does not show severe crying or shivering. This will still help lower the body temperature. Fever guidelines have never recommended antipyretic patches as a treatment method for reducing fever, but they are very popular in China and can be used as a placebo for parents. If the baby does not resist, you can use it, but if the baby is unwilling to use the patch, parents do not have to force it, because the antipyretic effect of the antipyretic patch is really limited. The baby\’s skin is thin and tender, with strong permeability, imperfect development of the cuticle, abundant subcutaneous blood vessels, and strong blood circulation. At the same time, when high temperature persists, the capillaries of the baby\’s whole body are in a state of expansion and the pores are open. At this time, apply it on Alcohol on the surface of the skin has high absorption and penetration capabilities. Alcohol will be absorbed into the blood through the skin. If the baby\’s liver function is not well developed, it is easy to cause alcohol poisoning. Therefore, rubbing yourself with alcohol is even more undesirable. If your baby\’s body temperature continues to be higher than 39°C, his breathing speed is too fast, he is breathing heavily or has difficulty breathing, he is lethargic, unusually irritable, or accompanied by other symptoms, you should take your baby to the doctor immediately. Among them, babies under 3 months old should seek medical attention immediately as long as they have a fever.