How to regulate children's stomach

In the process of taking care of babies, we always encounter some health problems. Many children cannot absorb the nutrition of food better due to poor gastrointestinal function, which leads to thin body and very poor physical fitness. This is particularly prone to low immunity and some diseases. However, if we can regulate the baby's gastrointestinal tract, the child can better absorb the nutrition in the food and become healthier. Let's learn about how to regulate the child's gastrointestinal tract.

How to regulate children's stomach

1. Correctly adding complementary foods is critical

The taste buds on the tongue of newborn babies are stimulated by various flavors and then begin to develop and improve. The quality of taste development has an important impact on the baby's appetite. Therefore, whether the mother can add complementary food to the baby in time and reasonably after the baby is 4 months old is very important for cultivating good gastrointestinal function.

1. The order of adding complementary food:

The first complementary food added to the baby should be mainly vegetable soup, pasta, and rice paste that are easily digestible and absorbable. Later, the concentration and variety of complementary foods should be gradually increased to meet the needs of nutrition and chewing ability development. Specifically in this order:

1) From less to more: For example, when adding egg yolk, start with 1/4 and closely observe the baby's appetite and bowel movements. If there are no special changes within a week, you can increase it to half an egg yolk, continue to observe for another week, and then add it to one egg yolk.

2) From thin to thick: From liquid milk, soy milk, and stewed eggs, gradually transition to rice porridge, then thin porridge, thick porridge, and later to soft rice and ordinary food.

3) From fine to coarse: such as starting from fine vegetable puree, then to coarse vegetable puree, then to chopped vegetables, and finally to general stir-fry.

4) New foods must be gradually transitioned from one type to multiple types. Once you get used to one, add the other. Each type of food needs to be adapted for 5-7 days, so that if the baby is allergic to food, the type of food that causes the allergy can be discovered and confirmed in time.

Until the baby's diet is completely transitioned to an adult diet.

2. Frequency and energy density of complementary food:

1) 6-8 months: ensure feeding complementary food 2-3 times a day;

2) 9-11 months: Feed complementary food 3-4 times a day;

3) 12-23 months: Add nutritious snacks, such as fruits and cookies with peanut butter, 1-2 times a day.

Snacks should be eaten between meals so as not to affect the next meal. If the amount of a meal is too small or the density is low, the frequency of meals should be increased. Avoid drinking beverages with low nutritional value, such as tea, coffee, and cola. You should also limit your baby's intake of fruit juice to prevent it from affecting the normal intake of nutritious foods.

2. Mother’s good cooking skills will give the baby a good appetite

1. Cooking food must be suitable for the baby's age characteristics

For example, the digestive ability of a baby after weaning is still relatively weak, so the food should be cooked finely, softly and thoroughly; as the baby grows older, his chewing ability improves, and the food should gradually become coarser and more complete.

2. The color and flavor of food are also very important

1) The baby is very picky about food. Regardless of the taste, he will refuse the food if the color of the food is not good.

2) Not liking to eat vegetables is a "common problem" among many babies. In this case, mothers can use their brains. Just change the way of eating, such as chopping vegetables into porridge or rice, or making vegetable and meat fillings for dumplings or wontons, and the baby will like to eat them.

3) Food should also be diversified, with meat, poultry, fish and eggs every day to ensure that the baby's nutritional needs are met as much as possible. Unless the diet is supplemented or fortified with nutrients, a vegetable-only diet will not meet the nutritional needs of babies at this age.

Dietary tips: When your baby grows too fast, exercises too much, or cannot meet his nutritional needs from diet for other reasons, you can give your baby vitamins, mineral supplements or fortified foods. When your baby is sick, you should increase the amount of liquid food and breastfeed more often. Encourage eating soft, easily digestible, nutritious foods, and after illness, babies should be fed more nutritious foods than usual.

3. “Anorexia” diet needs to be restricted

Foods with low nutritional value or that hinder digestion, such as various cold drinks with high cream content, cola-type and pigmented drinks, bubble gum, chocolate, fried foods, etc., are not good for anorexic babies and should be eaten less or not.

4. Cultivation of eating habits

Create a pleasant eating environment for your baby and don't put too much pressure on your baby's picky eating behavior. Parents should set a good example for their babies by not being picky about food.

Due to different eating habits, babies can be encouraged to eat with other babies more often. When they see other children eating dishes they don’t like with gusto, they will also want to try them.

When eating, keep your baby in a fixed seat and do not let him walk around or play or watch TV while eating.

Make full use of the interaction between babies and adults to help babies learn to eat regularly, and make sure that babies feel hungry before meals.

The above is an introduction to how to regulate the baby's stomach. After understanding it, we know that if we want to effectively improve the baby's stomach, we must change the feeding methods and habits for the baby. First of all, we must cultivate good eating habits for the child and not be picky about food. When the baby is young, we must master the process when adding complementary foods. Remember not to add too much blindly. There must be a gradual process.