What to do if your 4-month-old baby has a decreased appetite

What I want to share with you today is a question about children’s diet, which is also the issue that everyone is most concerned about. Do you feel you don’t know where to start when it comes to the eating problems of newborns? Because the baby is too young and you have no idea what may cause his eating problems. Let’s take the question of what to do if your 4-month-old baby has a decreased appetite as an example. Let’s see how to solve it together. I hope we can solve the problem for you.

1. Why does my 4-month-old baby's appetite suddenly decrease? Is there any way to increase his appetite?

Babies at four or five months old will reach a physiological period of milk aversion, which is normal. Mothers just need to wait calmly for the babies to adjust themselves, which usually takes no more than a month.

2.4-month-old baby has poor appetite

Condition description: The baby is a girl who just turned four months old. She was breastfed some time ago. Recently, she has switched to formula milk. She doesn't eat much with a pacifier. She eats very little each time and sometimes doesn't eat for half a day. She is very small, only 10.8 taels in 4 months. What's wrong with her? Urgent, urgent

Solution: Breastfed babies don’t like bottles at first, and it takes time. It is best to feed them a mixture of breast milk and formula for a period of time, and do not wean them off breast milk directly. At the same time, you can slowly add complementary foods to increase nutrition. Process of adding complementary food:

1. From 4 months of age, add rice soup to promote the production of amylase and supplement B vitamins. Some people have worried that adding complementary foods too early may cause the baby to have poor breastfeeding and affect milk production, but observations have shown that appropriate supplementation does more good than harm to the baby.

2. In addition to the above foods, babies aged 5-6 months need to supplement with starchy foods (such as infant cakes, rice flour paste, porridge), animal foods (liver, eggs, fish), fruits and vegetables, and vegetable oils. At this stage, the secretion of amylase in the digestive tract of children increases significantly. Timely addition of starchy foods can not only make up for the lack of dairy energy and improve the utilization rate of protein in the diet, but also cultivate children's habit of using spoons and chewing. Adding egg yolk, minced fish, vegetable puree and other supplementary foods to starchy foods is of great significance for children of this age.

It is not advisable to feed this kind of food between two breastfeedings, otherwise it will increase the frequency of eating and drinking. At the beginning, a small amount should be supplemented immediately after breastfeeding. After 6 months, it can replace 1-2 times of milk.

3. Most babies aged 7-9 months have already grown teeth, so solid foods such as biscuits and crackers should be added in time to promote tooth growth and cultivate good habits such as chewing and swallowing. Initially, you can supplement starchy food after one breastfeeding in the evening every day, and then gradually reduce the breastfeeding time and increase the amount of complementary food, until the baby is fed with complementary food completely without milk, and then give the second time in the same way at noon. In this way, you can gradually transition to three meals of cereals and 2-3 breastfeedings.

In addition to porridge and noodles, chopped vegetables, liver, whole eggs, poultry, tofu and other foods can be added to make the recipes colorful and varied, the dishes varied, and increase children's appetite.

4. When the baby is 10-12 months old, the digestive function will be further improved, so lean meat can be added to the above diet. Meat should not be fried, stir-fried or stir-fried. It should be chopped into small pieces and added to porridge or noodles to cook together to facilitate digestion and absorption. The fat in mutton has a high melting point and is difficult to digest, so it should be added after you are a little older.

What should I do if my 4-month-old baby has a decreased appetite? Is the above situation similar to yours? If so, it is generally due to this reason. The child will have a period of milk aversion, so an adjustment process is needed. Mothers do not need to worry about this problem in Thailand. I wonder if today’s sharing can help you.