How to develop proper eating habits for infants and toddlers

Parents should try small spoon feeding in the right way, be confident, don’t be nervous, and don’t force the baby to eat. Because the parents’ nervousness will affect the baby, and the baby will be nervous too. In addition, the spoon is harder than the nipple, barely let it eat, it will touch the baby, forming a conditioned reflex, the baby will be suspicious of all the food brought to the mouth, refusing to eat, and even as soon as you see the adult with a cup and bowl spoon, shaking his head, pushing away with his small hands. At this point if hard to feed, he will cry and fuss, affecting the normal feeding of the meal. The right way is to start with a small amount, only once a day, and when the baby is hungry, let him gradually adapt to the way of bowl and spoon feeding. If the child likes to eat sweets, complementary food can start with sweets, if you love to eat salty, you can add a small amount of vegetable soup, broth. After two or three days of trial feeding, the baby can be fed the full amount of a meal, and the variety of complementary foods can be changed. If the child really does not adapt to the bowl and spoon feeding, you can also use chopsticks to clip food thick porridge, soft rice, generally 8 months old children see adults eat with chopsticks, will accept chopsticks feeding complementary food. In short, parents should be patient and find ways to train their children to be happy with food, so that they always eat in a happy atmosphere. What should babies with food allergies do? Babies with food allergies should first avoid foods that cause allergies, for example, babies allergic to milk protein should strictly avoid milk protein and foods containing milk ingredients. For babies aged 0-1 years with milk protein allergy, it is important to choose a formula nutritional powder that can replace milk. The commercially available soy protein formula powder and goat milk formula powder are not the best dietary alternatives for babies with cow’s milk protein allergy because both soy protein formula and goat milk formula contain complete proteins and a significant proportion of babies allergic to cow’s milk protein will also be allergic to soy protein and goat milk protein. The current accepted medical recommendation is that if your baby is allergic to cow’s milk protein, you should choose a fully hydrolyzed cow’s milk protein formula if you are unable to breastfeed. The vast majority of babies experience relief or disappearance of symptoms within two weeks of receiving a fully hydrolyzed protein formula. If your baby’s symptoms do not resolve with a fully hydrolyzed protein formula, then you should use an amino acid formula powder. Generally speaking, allergic symptoms can be relieved by dietary modification and avoidance of allergic foods, which will not affect growth and development. However, there are a few babies with severe food allergies who need to be treated with medication under the guidance of a doctor. As babies grow older, their immune system matures. After the allergy symptoms have completely disappeared for 3-6 months, you can gradually transition from amino acid formula to fully hydrolyzed formula, and then from fully hydrolyzed formula to moderately hydrolyzed formula, thus helping your baby to transition to a normal diet.