What to do if your child refuses to eat after weaning

When children reach a certain age, they will start eating complementary foods. Many children will have a loss of appetite after weaning, and many parents don’t know what to do when their children refuse to eat after weaning. It is normal for children to not want to eat after weaning, and parents can slowly adjust this situation.

1. Generally speaking, it is best to wean the child at the age of one, or to wean the child when it is better to guide the child to eat complementary foods. It is recommended to add complementary foods to the child slowly, eat less and feed more often. It is normal for the baby to have a poor appetite when he is first weaned, because the baby has not adapted yet. You can give the baby a balanced diet with a combination of meat and vegetables. You should also pay more attention to choosing the right milk powder for the baby, which can help the baby wean.

2. The daily diet arrangement for a one-year-old baby: five meals a day, three meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner, and two snacks. Emphasis is placed on balanced diet and a combination of coarse and fine, rice and flour, meat and vegetables, with the principle of crushed, soft and rotten food. After being completely weaned (breast milk), the diet is mostly fixed to three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the baby should be transitioned from porridge to thick porridge and soft rice, from meat puree to minced meat, and from vegetable puree to minced vegetables. When the baby is almost one year old, you can train him to eat by himself and must be weaned (breast milk). If you continue to feed the baby with breast milk, the child may not drink milk, have a poor appetite, and all aspects of nutrition cannot keep up with the baby's growth needs. At the same time, you have to follow a step-by-step approach to add complementary foods to the baby, from less to more, from thin to thick, from fine to coarse, and add one when the baby is used to it. Add when the child is healthy and has normal digestive function. If there is a reaction, pause for two days and resume after the baby recovers. An 8-month-old baby will gradually adapt to the transition from milk to food, and I believe the baby will definitely adapt.

3. After weaning, infants and young children cannot eat all cereal foods, nor can they eat the same meals as adults. The staple food should be thick porridge, soft rice, noodles, wontons, buns, etc. The side dishes can include fish, lean meat, liver, eggs, dried shrimps, soy products and various vegetables. The staple food is rice and flour, about 100 grams per day, which gradually increases with age; soy products are about 25 grams per day, mainly tofu and dried tofu; one egg a day, which can be steamed, stewed, boiled, or fried; meat and fish are 50 to 75 grams per day, gradually increasing to 100 grams; soy milk or cow's milk, 500 milliliters per day, gradually reducing to 250 milliliters after 1 year old; fruit can be supplied appropriately according to the specific situation.