Four-month-old baby's brain development

For four-month-old babies, they have just started to eat complementary foods, so at this time, mothers have very high requirements for complementary foods. Complementary foods must be easy to digest, babies like to eat them, and they must also be able to promote intellectual development. The intellectual development of a four-month-old baby is the most critical stage. If necessary, you can choose to give the baby some drinks that promote brain development. So to what extent does the brain of a four-month-old baby develop?

1. Key points of intellectual development of four-month-old babies

Develop sensory-motor skills, which is the combination of vision, hearing and touch with muscle activity. For example, the eyes guide the hands to pick up things, and the eyes and body move accurately when hearing sounds. Let your baby listen to music and talk to him/her more often. Do turning exercises for your baby to exercise his spine and muscles throughout the body, and help him learn to turn over.

Encourage your baby to talk, play question-and-answer games with your baby, practice vocalization, and learn to "talk". Add appropriate amount of complementary food, such as eggs, rice noodles, vegetable puree, etc. Keep breastfeeding as much as possible. For a four-month-old baby's intellectual development, the mother should express breast milk every three hours while working to promote the secretion of breast milk. The expressed milk can be kept in the refrigerator and fed to the baby the next day. Some babies can already roll over, so parents should be more careful about their babies' safety.

2. Intellectual development indicators for four-month-old babies

When lying prone, the baby's upper body is completely raised and perpendicular to the bed; the legs can be raised to kick off clothes and quilts and hanging toys; the vision is flexible and can shift from one object to another; the baby begins to babble and responds to adults' teasing with voice; and he likes to eat complementary foods.

3. Nutritional recommendations for four-month-old babies

The World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the UK Department of Health all recommend that exclusive breastfeeding should be continued for at least six months, before complementary foods can be introduced. Because breast milk can meet all nutritional needs before six months, including water. Formula milk, which is an imitation and substitute of breast milk, can also meet all the nutritional needs of babies before six months old. Six months is when babies begin to adapt to different foods, and it is also the best time for different food structures and feeding methods. Authoritative experts take into account the baby's digestive system and the nutritional issues of breast milk, so mothers who have the conditions are best to feed their babies exclusively with breast milk until they are 6 months old.

The above is an introduction to the intellectual development of four-month-old babies. It introduces the key points, indicators and nutritional recommendations for the intellectual development of four-month-old babies. I hope that parents can take it seriously. If there are any abnormalities in the intellectual development of a four-month-old baby, be sure to consult a doctor in time. In addition, parents should also pay more attention to the nutrition of children at this stage.