What to do if your baby has poor chewing ability

When a baby is born, his teeth are not fully grown yet, and he can only rely on his gums to eat softer foods. However, some babies have poor chewing ability and cannot chew even the softest foods. Parents should pay attention to this, because tooth growth is the most important, and some measures need to be taken to exercise chewing ability, such as using teething sticks to allow babies to exercise their ability. Here I will introduce to you how babies should exercise their chewing ability.

2. Many people think that babies are born with the ability to swallow and chew, so they will eat naturally when the time comes and there is no need to pay special attention to anything. In fact, this concept is not entirely correct.

3. Chapter 1: The Importance of Chewing

From the moment the baby is born, he or she has the instinct to seek out the nipple and suck. Once the baby inhales breast milk, he or she will swallow the milk reflexively. As the baby grows older, the swallowing ability will become more coordinated and improved.

However, the completion of chewing ability requires the cooperation of the tongue, mouth, teeth, facial muscles, lips, etc., in order to successfully grind or bite the food in the mouth and then eat it.

5. Therefore, chewing ability is a skill that can only be achieved through long-term and frequent practice of the baby's entire oral movement. If parents do not actively train the baby's chewing ability and neglect to provide different complementary foods at different stages, after the baby is over 1 year old, parents will find that the baby cannot chew coarser or harder food because he does not have good chewing ability, which may cause nutritional imbalance, picky eating, difficulty swallowing and other problems.

Age: 4 to 6 months

Development Status

After 4 months old, the baby's sucking and swallowing movements of liquid food have matured, and he can drink milk food smoothly without it flowing out easily.

From this stage, the baby's tongue becomes more flexible, and he will try to use the movements of his tongue and mouth to swallow the paste or juice in his mouth. However, his movements are not very coordinated, and sometimes he will push the food out or only eat a small amount of food.