Why babies don't gain weight

Some babies just can’t gain weight no matter how much they eat, which makes parents who are concerned about the baby’s growth feel anxious and helpless. There are certain reasons why babies can’t gain weight. It is related to picky eating. Babies have a stage of anorexia, but it is only temporary. If the baby has anorexia for a long time, it is mostly caused by poor gastrointestinal function. It is recommended to check and treat the symptoms in time. There are other reasons why babies can’t gain weight. What is the reason why babies can’t gain weight? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What is the reason why babies don’t gain weight?

The reason why children are not fat is that they are not getting fat during infancy. If they eat a lot of milk but are not fat, it is considered that the baby's spleen and stomach are not well absorbed, resulting in malnutrition. It is recommended to strengthen the baby's spleen and stomach, and give the baby more high-protein foods.

2. What complementary foods should babies over six months old eat?

When the baby is 6 months old, it is time to start adding complementary foods to the baby. When adding complementary foods, you should increase the amount, from thin to thick, and from fine to coarse. Porridge and vegetable puree are indispensable in the complementary food diet for six-month-old babies.

Six-month-old baby staple food recipes

Babies aged six months can officially start adding complementary foods, first eating rice cereal, then vegetable and fruit puree, and finally egg yolks. The baby's staple food recipe should be mainly soup or paste, such as fruit juice, vegetable juice, vegetable soup, meat broth, egg yolk puree, vegetable puree, fruit puree, fish puree, meat puree, etc., which can be easily accepted by the baby.

3. Food Preparation

1. Egg yolk mud

Ingredients: 1 egg.

Method: After the eggs are cooked, mash them with a spoon, then add appropriate amount of boiling water or formula milk and mix evenly into a paste. You can start with 1/8 egg yolk, and then gradually increase to 1/4 or 1/3 depending on your baby's acceptance.

Nutrition Tips: Egg yolks are high in iron, and vitamins A, D and E dissolve in fat and are easily absorbed and used by the body.

2. Fresh liver and potato paste

Ingredients: 20 grams of potatoes, 30 grams of rice, 5 grams of chicken liver.

Method: Rinse the chicken liver with running water, put it into a small pot and cook; take it out (keep the water from cooking the chicken liver), take about 1/3 and mash it into a paste; wash the potatoes, put them into a small pot and cook until soft, take them out and mash them into potato puree; after washing the rice, add the water used to cook the chicken liver, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer until the rice grains become a paste; add the chicken liver puree and potato puree, stir well and turn off the heat, and feed it to the baby after it is warm.

Nutritional tips: Chicken liver is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamin A, and B vitamins, which can protect your baby's eyesight.