What to do if your child doesn't like to drink milk powder

Newborn babies mainly rely on breast milk for nutrition, but as the child's body continues to develop, it is necessary to add appropriate amount of milk powder to meet the child's nutritional needs. However, some babies are averse to milk powder and don't like to eat it very much, which makes parents panic. So, what should you do if your child doesn’t like to drink milk powder? Let’s take a look at the common solutions below.

Although no matter how good the pacifier is, the feeling will still be different from drinking mother’s milk, you can choose a pacifier that is closer. Another suggestion is to boil the nipple for a while to soften it, and the baby may be more accepting of it.

2. See if the baby doesn’t like the pacifier or the taste of milk powder

Try expressing breast milk and feeding it to your baby in a bottle. If he accepts it, he may not like the taste of formula. You can try a brand that tastes closer to breast milk. You can also try making the milk powder a little lighter or colder or hotter.

3. Add complementary food in time

At 2 months, they can drink fruit juice. At 4 months, they can eat complementary foods, such as rice noodles, egg yolks, liver meal, fish meal, and fruit puree, and then to vegetable and meat porridge, soft noodles, etc. After they can eat complementary foods, things will be much better, at least they can absorb nutrition from other aspects. However, eating too much complementary food will affect the amount of milk, so you should pay attention to this.

If the baby is too young to eat complementary food, he should eat more breast milk. Many mothers feel that they have very little breast milk, but in fact, you may have more breast milk than you think. When the baby is unwilling to eat formula, breast milk should be used more effectively.

5. Make the nipple bigger

Many children hate eating milk powder. They will cry and turn their heads away when they see the bottle or eat the milk powder. When in a good mood, he will put the nipple in his mouth but not suck it. If you open the nipple wider, the baby will still eat it even if the nipple leaks into his mouth. Although it is slow, it is better than not eating. I can eat about 90ml at a time.

6. Eating in front of your baby

At a certain stage, the baby will be very curious about the outside world. When he sees what you are eating, he will be very greedy and want to try it. So sometimes I deliberately drink something in front of him or pretend to drink milk, he will keep watching, and then I quickly give it to him, and sometimes he will eat a little. This method also applies to eating complementary foods.

7. Try something other than the bottle

Most babies will accept a small spoon, but Ding Dang won’t. I tried drinking from a cup and was actually able to drink a little, so I quickly bought a training cup, but I still didn't like it. Some mothers said that you can try using the lid on the bottle. I also thought of using the dropper from Little Shierkang, but unfortunately the speed was too slow. There is also a weaning bottle with a small spoon in the front, you can try it.

8. Let your baby go hungry

It is said that babies will eat when they are hungry, but I think it is not good to keep them hungry all the time, and some stubborn babies would rather be hungry than eat. You can be a little hungry, and you will eat something when you are starving.

Bread is very absorbent, so I can eat some of the milk powder and even take a few spoonfuls of it.

10. Add milk powder to other things

Add milk powder to rice noodles and porridge. However, it is said that the nutrients in milk powder and rice noodles will cancel each other out. But you can’t worry about that. It’s better to cancel each other out than not eat it. Anyway, the instructions for rice noodles also say that they can be made with milk powder. In order to avoid the destruction of nutrients in the milk powder by excessively high water temperature, the rice noodles are first rinsed with hot water, and then the milk powder is added when it cools down a bit. In the days when he didn't take any milk powder, he relied on this to survive. This is for reference only. I don’t know whether it can be eaten with rice noodles, but porridge should be ok. In addition, we started adding calcium powder to the milk powder. It’s a bit sweet, and Dingdang would eat some. But later I stopped eating it. On the other hand, I heard that eating milk powder and calcium powder together is not good, so I didn't dare to eat them together.