You also learn to eat
The topic gives to talk long and tense. Today, however, with the excuse of a book that paediatrician Carlos González has just published with the same title ("Our Child Doesn't Eat"), I would like to break down some false convictions fairly widespread around this point and clarify things to erroneously resolve some of the ideas that have been passed down from generation to generation as if they were absolute truths for people.
Never force a child to eat
It may happen that an adult does not open his mouth for fashion reasons, but for a child these social norms are not important. So don't insist that the child eat at any price.
How much food is needed every day?
Each of us needs a different caloric contribution, and so food is not exact science. While some have no limits, others eat like chorizos. Why measure all with the same measure? A year and a half child may have the same need as a nine-month-old baby.
Sure you don't eat anything?
For most parents, not eating anything is not eating as much as they think you have to eat. Perhaps if the size of the parents were half a plate, another rooster would have touched us.
Those who really eat nothing
Illness and also jealousy make food spoil. But that “evil” is only temporary, and once the problem is resolved, the appetite appears again.
Work outside Amatxo's home
The return of the mother to work can cause the refusal to eat in some children, if not in front of her mother. They may not eat for eight hours and then eat around the mother until full.
It is not a matter of life
For some parents this problem becomes a personal insult. Others, for their part, consider the satisfaction of their children through food indispensable.
No sense of guilt
Frustration as well as the feeling of not doing things right, as they did with them when they were young. That is what many parents feel and, of course, in this situation it is easily understood that food has moments of suffering.
Children misunderstandings
Put yourself in the skin of your children. Instead of receiving the love of his parents, they only receive attacks and bad words: nothing else gets him in the way from mouth to throat, but the parents are still there and, in addition, they annoy him and scream at him.
Final Test
Eat in proportion to what you give your child. Suppose the child weighs about 10 kilos and eats a plate. Did you eat five or six dishes? No! Surely you would be.
Free milk to taste
Breast milk is the most complete and nutritious food. As long as the child does not lose weight, there is no problem to continue with milk (preferably breast milk) until he turns one year or even more. Of course, walking calmly with schedules and giving children on demand.
When?
There is a misconception, but quite widespread, that cereals serve to fatten the child, and therefore instead of giving breast, you have to give it porridge. The porridges are well, they are healthy, but at the time and as prescribed by the doctor (not attending to the measurement or proportion of the flour box).
Does not like vegetables
The child's stomach is small, so it admits small amounts, i.e. many calories in a small volume. Vegetables have a lot of fiber, but few calories. And that's why they're not the best food for the baby. Some aromas are enough to taste.
Fruit porridge
It happens as with fruits with vegetables. If the child doesn't want to eat porridge, give the bite some apple or have fun in small pieces of fruit (for example, a pear). Recommendations and recommendations from the doctor at this point (how to mix, etc.) are not obligatory: your child has the last word.
Respect sleep
There are parents who "plug" the bottle into their child while they sleep and then complain that they don't eat anything, when they are awake. How will they eat if they have eaten enough during sleep?
Chuches, forbidden! News
Whether or not children eat, candies and snacks that are currently open should be prohibited ("once a year, no harm").
One-year crisis
At 12 months the growth rate is reduced, so the child no longer needs so much food. Little by little the needs will increase and above all from the five years their energy expenditure and their needs will increase considerably.
Those blissful percentiles
One of the biggest concerns of parents is weight charts. Each country has its own and you will never find two different matching graphics. What does that mean, that your baby will be pixeled above average or below average? From there take out the accounts and demystify, therefore, all the graphics and percentiles.
The child's "defenses"
Babies assume their defenses against the attack of their parents: make a big ball with food inside the mouth, spit and even cause vomiting. Their refusal is usually not a whim. As a result of evolution, children tend to reject and reject flavors unknown for their mere survival.
That ghost called allergy
Allergy can lead to a child's rejection of food that can damage his or her body (milk, eggs, gluten, or any other food that "notices" the child is not acceptable to him). Therefore it is better not to force the child to eat.
Appetite stimulants
These stimulant tonics contain psychodrugs that act in their composition, that is, in the brain, accelerating or stimulating the brain center of appetite. The effect of these medications is short and the effects are noticed during administration. They are not recommended except for exceptions. But, however, almost all the doctors of us have recited, because one thing is what is said in theory (and in cold), and another (and quite unfavorable or different) is that we have the case before, when we touch closely, what we do.
How to introduce food
From five to six months of age, you can start trying new flavors, always very carefully and slowly.
Specific strategies
Do not store leftovers for dinner. To put
in a dish what usually eats, and to us, as parents, seems very little. If he is hungry he will ask for more.
Avoid banks and anger if possible. Never buy the child with false promises (or lies).
Vegetarians
The children of vegetarian parents do not, at least in principle, have problems living with ovo-lacto-vegetarian food. However, in the long term, in my opinion, this measure of eating is quite insufficient.
Getting used to eating everything
But be careful! Forcing a certain meal can be the easiest way for a child to hate this food for life. If we do not force ourselves, but you are offered at the table, you will try it at the end.
Want to eat alone
The child may refuse to eat because he wants to bring his food to his mouth and that is not left. Even if the food is lengthened and everything that surrounds it gets dirty, it is convenient that gradually it gives it some independence, putting at its disposal what can only eat in every age.
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