The mother's desire to feed the child at any cost is natural, inherent in nature itself. But the child sometimes refuses to eat (which is unbearable for the mother because it does not allow parents to fulfill their obligations), causes the desire to immediately save the baby. Let's see what are the reasons for refusing to eat infants.
The child does not want to eat or can not?
This is the first question in which you need to understand before you look for the reason for refusing children to eat. Unwillingness is and the inability to eat - completely different situations and the reasons for refusing to eat also significantly differ.
A baby boy refuses to eat, because he does not want to eat.
Children can refuse to eat due to lack of appetite. And the appetite may be absent:
- because of illness - this situation is not easy for parents psychologically, but in general it is clear that this is temporary and will take place in the process of recovery of the baby.
- because of the individual characteristics of the metabolism (someone eats a lot, and someone is small and it is quite enough for him).
The child refuses to eat due to the fact that he can not eat.
If the infant shows his desire to eat with his behavior, the mother's breast is greedily greedy, but then he begins to worry, to be capricious, refuses to eat, this can happen for the following reasons:
- problems with the arrival of food - "taut" breasts, flat nipples, a small hole in the nipple,
- physical characteristics of food - too hot or cold,
- the reason for the taste of food - the nursing mother deviated from the diet,
- problems in the oral cavity of the child (sucking or swallowing causes pain) - this cause can be caused by thrush, stomatitis, gum disease with teething, tonsillitis, pharyngitis,
- problems with breathing - if the baby has a stuffy nose, then during the sucking there is a tangible discomfort, because the baby can not breathe through the mouth,
- problems with the intestines - in infants often enough after the beginning of sucking increases peristalsis of the intestine. If the child has increased gas formation, a tendency to constipation, inflammatory processes, such a contractility of the intestine can cause pain in the abdomen.
Parents can not always determine the cause by which their baby can not eat, but it is not difficult to distinguish the reluctance to eat from the impossibility. If the child wants to eat, but can not - this is an important reason to seek medical help.