What should I do if my 9-month-old baby has a poor appetite?

If the baby catches a cold, he will have a poor appetite. The baby's poor appetite may be caused by the mother eating some difficult to digest food during this stage. If the mother eats some difficult to digest food and continues to feed the baby at this stage, it is easy for the baby to have indigestion, which will cause the baby to have a poor appetite. So what should you do if the baby has a poor appetite!

Some babies don’t like porridge but like rice. Many mothers are afraid to feed their children for fear of choking them, or because children do not have teeth and they are afraid that they will not refuse. In fact, there is no need to worry about this. If you cook the rice softer, the baby will grind it with his gums and then swallow it, so you don’t have to worry about the baby choking.

Some babies don’t like to eat vegetables. This may be because they were fed vegetable water and vegetable soup in the past few months, which tasted monotonous and the babies got tired of them. At this time, you can try to give your baby a bite of the food that adults eat. If your baby likes it, it means he already likes delicious food. When cooking vegetables, you must pay attention to the taste. You can't just feed your baby boiled vegetables.

Some babies like to eat delicious food, so mothers may put a little broth in the dish, and the baby will like it very much. This shows that the child has grown up and started to like eating delicious food.

To make children happy while eating, you should also pay attention to their unique body language when they are eating. Pushing the spoon away with hands, knocking over the rice bowl with little hands, spitting out the food that the mother puts into the mouth, not opening the mouth to eat, turning the head away when feeding, or crying are all signs that the baby is refusing to eat. Children know how much they should eat. If they don’t eat, it means they are telling their mothers that they are full. Don’t force the child to cry.

The above content is some of the reasons and solutions for the baby's poor appetite introduced by the editor. I hope the mother will pay more attention to the baby's diet at this stage. If the baby has some indigestion due to breastfeeding, the mother is required to eat more light food at this stage. I wish the baby a speedy recovery.