What should I do if my baby doesn t chew well on complementary food?

Updated on parenting 2024-08-03
22 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    Mothers should make food other than milk in the form of paste or puree for their babies. Gradually add semi-liquid food, and when you reach 7-9 months, you can give your baby fruit bars, small toast and other foods, let him hold it in his hand and eat it, just exercise a little bit.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    First, deliberately let the baby imitate the chewing action, the family can do the chewing exaggerated action in front of the baby, so that the baby can follow along.

    Second, let the baby train his chewing ability. For example, you can let your baby use teething biscuits or let your child nibble on an apple to eat, which can effectively exercise chewing ability. Note that it is not recommended to let him eat dried fruits alone when his chewing ability is poor, so as to avoid choking and aspiration.

    Third, don't give your child too bad or broken food, and of course it is not recommended to give high-fiber, indigestible food. Eating food allows the baby to consciously do chewing movements, as long as you keep exercising, it will be fine. Poor chewing ability is also significantly relieved and will be corrected slowly.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    Parents should begin to exercise the child's chewing ability after the eruption of the child's baby teeth, and the granular food should be added in time, if the child has been given food that is too bad or made into porridge, the child's chewing ability can not be fully exercised, this situation will occur, and after a long time, it will slowly begin to be picky eater, and parents can no longer break or chop the child to make supplementary food, so the child must be encouraged to chew.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    1. Chewing exercises start at the beginning of adding complementary food, and parents should perform chewing actions in front of their children.

    2. This is a step-by-step process, while waiting for the eruption of molars, it is necessary to train the chewing function as early as possible.

    3. If the baby does not learn to chew, he will swallow dates or refuse to eat lumpy food, which may cause insufficient nutrient absorption in the child for a long time, which will affect the growth and development of the child.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Granular food should be added in time, if the child has been given food that is too bad or made into porridge, the child's chewing ability can not be fully exercised, and the child should be encouraged to chew.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Because the baby's big teeth haven't grown yet. When he gets used to eating, he will chew.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    The baby's teeth have not been fully developed, and the word simple feet do not hesitate, it should be done when the simple chop a little, so that it is convenient, the baby eats.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Generally, babies begin to add complementary foods after six months, all of which are eaten rice cereal and the like, and then slowly to about nine months can add some noodles and porridge and other cooked food.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    This is because if a child is just starting out, he may not be able to chew, but he will only have one swallowing action.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    There are many parents who think the same thing as my sister, thinking that the baby is still young, has fewer teeth, and can only eat mushy and delicate food, but in fact, they are all wrong.

    What are the dangers caused by overly delicate complementary foods?

    Complementary food is not as fine as possible, the thickness should be adjusted according to the baby's age, if it has been too fine, it will cause harm to the baby's body in all aspects.

    1. The main function of teeth that affects tooth development is to chew food, if the supplementary food is too fine, the baby's teeth lack the use of chewing function, it will be stunted, and the jaw will also be affected. At the same time, too fine complementary food will also lead to a very small gap between the teeth, dense growth, and the baby's permanent teeth after tooth replacement are generally larger than baby teeth, lack of growth space, it will be distorted and deformed, and the teeth are not arranged in an irregular manner, twisted and crooked. In addition, low chewing ability will also lead to poor development of masseter muscles, which will affect the baby's appearance.

    2. Affect digestive functionSome parents give their children solid food, and find these foods in the child's stool, they feel that the child's gastrointestinal function is not well developed and cannot be digested, so they quickly change back to the fine paste.

    As everyone knows, this is a normal phenomenon, as long as the child has no other physical discomfort, parents do not need to be too panicked, young children's stomach needs to gradually adapt to these rough food, digestion, absorption function, but also through slow exercise to gradually improve.

    Tips: Because of their own misunderstanding, no longer feeding rough food, it will be easy to stagnate the baby's gastrointestinal function, thereby hindering the development of the baby's grasp and body.

    3. Nutrient lossThe more finely processed some ashwagandha foods are, the faster the nutrients contained in them will be lost. For example, after the staple food is broken, the calcium, magnesium, zinc, vitamin E and other nutrients will be lost in large quantities, and after the fruits and vegetables are broken, the vitamin C rich in them will also accelerate the oxidation, and there is little left. Long-term intake of these foods is difficult to meet the baby's daily nutritional needs, making the baby prone to malnutrition and stunting.

    The neighbor's baby is like this, they are almost two years old, they are still feeding the fine paste, they can't eat a little hard things, their hair is a little yellow, there is no meat on their bodies, and their energy is not as strong as other children.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The baby eats sensitively, the supplementary food period, the empty answer feels that the chewing is not too fine, then you can make the supplementary food rotten, and the food that needs to be polished is polished with a food processor for a longer time, finer, so that you can.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Many babies in life usually like to drink soup or gruel. Parents don't like to eat food such as rice or flatbread when they make it, because the baby doesn't like to chew, and parents are anxious and want to know what to do if the baby doesn't like to chew?

    1.Strengthen exercise: Your baby won't chew because he usually eats soft food or liquid or semi-liquid food at home.

    Or the parents chop the food very hard for him to eat, so that his jaw bone bite is not strong enough, and it is difficult to chew. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to let the baby practice more frequently to improve the bite strength, symmetry and stability of the lower collar bone. For example, between meals, you can let your baby eat some cakes, or cut apples and cucumbers into slices, dices, and pieces for your baby to eat.

    2.Parents should set an example: If the baby does not know how to chew or drink with his front teeth, parents can take the same food and bite and chew it so that the baby can imitate himself.

    At the same time, remind the baby to bite down with his front teeth and chew with both teeth. If there is an imbalance between the left and right chewing ability, chew more on the weaker side to achieve a balance between the chewing ability of both sides.

    3.Make a variety of food: the baby usually does not like to eat some food that needs to be chewed, parents can make more fresh food for the baby to attract the baby's appetite, so that the baby will slowly accept that there will be improvement.

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    If the baby is too young to eat, it is difficult to chew the meal, so prepare millet porridge and egg yolk for the baby, crush the egg yolk and mix it into the rice porridge, or cook all kinds of meat and vegetable porridge, it must be broken, and the baby can eat it without chewing.

  14. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The baby is about to be a year old, today to get mushrooms lean porridge for him to eat, shiitake mushrooms I cut very small, he still chewed mushrooms when he eats, as if he can't chew rotten, just don't swallow, eating has always been this situation, as long as the bite is not rotten, even if it is very small, he will keep chewing in his mouth, just don't swallow, and then he won't eat the second bite before eating yam porridge, carrots, tomatoes, southwest flowers those boiled porridge are very good, I don't know why, it's a little bit of a little chewy he won't swallow it, is there something wrong with the baby? How can I let him eat these things, and lean meat is also, I beat it into a puree mixed in the vegetable porridge a lot of times, he eats, chopped into meat residue he will always chew not swallow, the baby is now almost six teeth is not the previous food for him to eat too fine to cause this, the New Year back to his hometown because it is inconvenient to make supplementary food, he was fed a few days of rice noodles and then has been made of complementary food is relatively soft, the only problem encountered is that the lean meat can not chew no matter how small will not swallow, I see that other children are swallowing after chewing twice, is there something wrong with my baby?

  15. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Parents should begin to exercise the child's chewing ability after the eruption of the child's baby teeth, and the granular food should be added in time, if the child has been given food that is too bad or made into porridge, the child's chewing ability can not be fully exercised, this situation will occur, and after a long time, it will slowly begin to be picky eater, and parents can no longer break or chop the child to make supplementary food, so the child must be encouraged to chew.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    What should I do if my baby can't chew it when he eats complementary food? When the coupon is given to the baby to eat complementary food, some things are too big, so you have to use a spoon to crush it, and feed him when he is confused, so that you don't have to worry about the baby not chewing the card.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Crush the ingredients in a juicer and cook them so your baby can eat them.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Babies can't chew on complementary food, I think complementary food can be stirred with a food processor first, which will help the baby eat!

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    This can happen if your child is given food that is too badly cooked or made into porridge, and the child's chewing ability is not fully exercised.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    6 12 months is the key period for the baby to develop chewing and swallowing skills, when the baby has the action of biting up and down, it means that his ability to chew food has been initially possessed, and parents should carry out targeted exercise in time. Once the opportunity is missed, the baby will lose interest in learning, and then train it in the future is often half the effort, and the skills will not be proficient enough, often chew three or two times and swallow or chew in the mouth after reluctant to swallow. When the baby is eating, the mother must pay attention to whether the child chews carefully and do not treat it casually.

    Your baby has always had this bad habit, but if you find it late, it will be difficult to correct it.

    With the eruption and perfection of teeth, the baby's oral movements are more and more abundant, chewing and swallowing movements are coordinated, and gradually you can bite and chew with your teeth. At this time, the baby should be given coarser solid food and eat more coarse grains. Parents should be a good example in daily life, use the characteristics of the baby's love to imitate, often demonstrate the chewing action to the baby, each bite of food should be chewed slowly, preferably more than 10 times per mouthful.

    It is conducive to the development of gastrointestinal function; It is beneficial to the secretion of salivary glands, so that saliva and food are fully mixed to promote appetite; Grind food to a finer extent, improve the activity of digestive enzymes, promote digestion, and facilitate the absorption of nutrients; Helps in tooth development and growth. If the chewing ability is not enough, the baby's jaw bone is not well developed, and the teeth that grow out will be misaligned; It is beneficial to the development of head and face bones and muscles, accelerates blood circulation in the head, increases blood flow to the brain, and enables brain cells to obtain more oxygen and nutrients; Adequate chewing can train the coordination and flexibility of the muscles of the mouth, tongue, lips and other corresponding organs, and improve the clarity of the baby's pronunciation.

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Ingredients required: flour, eggs (can be replaced with water or milk), pumpkin slices and steam until steamed.

    After steaming, mash into a puree, put it warm and add yeast, too hot will scald the yeast to death and ferment the failed eggs, stir well, pour into the pumpkin puree, and then add flour a little bit into a thick paste that does not flow, take a high-temperature resistant container, brush oil (good demoulding), pour the batter, cover with plastic wrap and put it in a warm place to ferment and ferment to twice the original size, put it in a steamer with cold water, boil the steaming water, steam for about 20 minutes, turn off the fire and simmer for a minute or two, and then take it out and cut it into slices or strips to feed to the baby, you can also let the baby take it and eat.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    This actually needs to be exercised slowly, and when the baby just starts to add complementary food, it must mainly eat some mushy food.

    This is mainly because the baby is relatively small, so the digestion ability of the stomach and intestines will be relatively weak, and if you eat some foods that need to be chewed, it will often cause the child's stomach and intestines to feel uncomfortable.

    In this case, parents can patiently tell the baby, for example, eggs and the like need to chew, parents can feed the baby while telling the baby that this thing needs to be chewed vigorously in the mouth.

    In fact, sometimes the baby just doesn't know how to chew, thinking that all the food only needs to be put in the mouth and then swallowed, so the parents told the baby that the baby will generally chew.

    Of course, sometimes there may be some babies who don't understand and don't know how to do it, so parents can show the baby, when feeding the baby, parents can also put the same food into their mouths, and then let the baby look at the parents' mouths, slowly chew the food in the mouth, and then swallow it.

    In this way, the baby will imitate the parent's action, and will also put the food in the mouth, and then chew slowly, and the baby will definitely develop the habit of chewing after a long time.

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