Such signs often indicate that the baby is infected with worms, but this may not always be the case. Strange as it may seem, the most common reason for the child's refusal to eat is because the mother feeds him incorrectly. After all, a little man from the very early age develops his own views on the "good" food that he consumes. Therefore, if you feed your baby incorrectly, not how he wants it, you will not help to restore his immunity to any medications and vitamins, because a cell of immunity, like any other, grows and develops only if enough nutrients are supplied to the body its growth. The basis for the growth of immunity cells is laid, of course, with food.
It is interesting to know that the first taste sensations develop in a child even in the mother's womb. Imagine that when you eat, your baby feels the taste of food through the amniotic fluid! Therefore, pregnant women should seriously think about what they eat, give preference only to healthy and healthy food, because you feed not only yourself, but also the future baby. Scientists have proved that the taste buds are formed in the fetus on the 7-8th week of intrauterine development. Taste receptors develop rather quickly, and already by the 15th week are similar to the taste buds of an adult.
Also no less interesting fact is that, just when it was born, the baby distinguishes between sweet, sour and bitter taste. The sour provokes a displeased grimace in the baby, he begins to make faces. Sweet, on the contrary, relaxes the muscles of the face, soothes. By the way, that's why in the baby's houses sweet water is the best way to calm the crying babies. Sweet also has an anesthetic effect for newborns. Therefore, if the baby cries and does not calm down, put a few grains of sugar on his tongue, he will stop crying for a while. But do not get carried away with this "goner" way and instill in your child a love for the first drug in his life - sugar. If the baby's tongue gets bitter, then it pops out the tongue and can even cry from unpleasant sensations. But salted does not cause any reactions in the newborn. Scientists have established that the baby begins to discern the taste of salt only by the 4th month of life. Not knowing the taste of salt, the baby can do without the podsalivaniya food. Therefore, if possible, do not use salt in baby food for up to a year, since the addiction to salt, inherent in us from childhood, leads subsequently to such diseases as hypertension, kidney disease and others.
His first real taste predilections the baby forms with the taste of mother's milk. Everyone knows that the taste of breast milk is not the same, and everything that the mother ate affects the quality of milk. Therefore here it is necessary to say a few words about babies who are on artificial feeding. They are disturbed by their taste, since the mixture for feeding is always the same and does not give rise to taste receptors. Therefore, artificial babies are reluctant to switch to lure, they are difficult to force to eat fruit and vegetable purees, their taste is completely unfamiliar to them.
Therefore, if you are breastfeeding, give preference to fresh fruits and vegetable dishes, so that the baby gets used to their taste through breast milk. Meat should also enter your diet every day. It is better to give preference to low-fat pork, beef, rabbit meat.
When it comes to older children, there is another problem with their nutrition. Many mothers complain that all day long they eat only cookies and sweets, refusing at all from soup and porridge. Sharply to wean the child from sweets it is impossible in no event, as at the child "breakage" as at the narcomaniac will begin, he will roll up to you scandals and hysterics, and to demand sweets. But all the same it is necessary to normalize the amount of sweets that a child consumes per day. Do for him a "law" - no more than 5 sweets and 5 cookies a day, for example. Do not bribe the child with sweets if he is naughty. Do not give sweets just before dinner or dinner. Sweet candy can always be replaced with an apple or a banana.
Another problem of eating behavior of a baby is transferring it to an adult table. Some parents force the baby to eat an adult food too early. Often it can cause serious disturbances in the digestion of the child. Adult food does not fit in its composition for a one-year-old baby. Doctors recommend to feed the child up to 3 years exclusively with baby porridges, fruit purees and meat purees. After all, baby food is enriched with all the vitamins and trace elements that crumbs need for its full growth and development.
If the baby is eating badly, it is better to feed it a little, but more often.
And remember that the earlier you think about the correct and rational nutrition of your baby, the less health problems await him at an older age. After all, proper nutrition is a pledge of strong immunity and excellent health.