Gege is in kindergarten, and his teacher said that every time he eats celery, carrots and other hard foods, Gege doesn’t like them and often spits them out after he eats them. Gege’s mother said, Gege grew up loving all kinds of pureed food, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, apple puree and so on, after the older, the family worried about the baby’s small teeth are not strong, so to Gege are some bananas, kiwi and other soft fruits, to eat peaches, you must choose soft peach, apple or pear and other slightly hard fruit, most are boiled into apple water or pear water to drink. Here comes the problem! Gege’s teeth have been growing unevenly, twisted and crooked, recently there is a new tooth, but the milk teeth are slow to fall out, take Gege to the dentist, the dentist said that the baby rarely use teeth, is too little hard food to eat caused by. The long time to eat only soft food teeth problems teeth are used into the waste, when it grows, if always not effectively used, teeth will have a variety of problems, the impact on the baby can not be small. 1, too soft food so that the baby teeth lack training, facial skin muscle strength becomes weaker, so that the baby’s chewing function is getting weaker, teeth and oral cavity muscles do not get the proper training, resulting in muscle weakness, atrophy, jaw bone development malfunction, but the number of teeth is not reduced, so the incidence of baby teeth misalignment deformation is also getting higher. 2, too soft food is also easy to cause tooth decay, present tooth mutilation, premature loss of milk teeth, permanent teeth eruption is not normal, can not fall off normally, and then constitute the teeth grow out of alignment. The baby eats hard food, chewing training is important In fact, chewing does require mothers to create learning conditions for their babies to learn to chew, and learning the correct method of chewing is vital to the development of the baby’s jawbone and facial muscles. It is generally believed that as long as there is up and down biting action, it means that the baby has the initial ability to chew food. 6 months or so is the best period or sensitive period to train the baby to chew and swallow. 6-12 months is a critical period for babies to develop chewing and swallowing skills, but at this time does not have the ability to chew food completely, mom and dad should be timely targeted exercise. Once you miss the time, the baby will lose interest in learning, and later to train often half the effort, and skills will not be pure enough, often chew three or two swallowed or chewed in the mouth after reluctant to swallow. Chewing training has skills Chewing action needs the tongue, mouth, cheek muscles and teeth to coordinate movement with each other, which requires parents to take into account the nutritional balance, but also the hardness, flexibility and crispness of food, according to the different ages of infants, to provide a variety of different stimuli for oral muscles and tongue, so that they are fully developed. 6 months chewing ability training focus 6 months old baby, it is best to start eating from the fortified iron rice powder, feeding the baby first put the food on the baby’s tongue, the baby through the tongue stirring and back and forth wriggling with the action of sucking and swallowing, so as to gradually adapt to swallowing. As your baby swallows burnt food well, gradually add mashed banana, apple, liver, etc. Tip: At the beginning, mothers will find that their babies will more or less topple or spit out the food. This is a normal phenomenon because the baby is used to sucking and has not yet formed a conditioned reflex related to swallowing action. Don’t think that your baby doesn’t like to eat and stop feeding supplementary food. 6 months suitable food: semi-liquid rice burnt, vegetable puree, fruit puree, etc. 7 to 9 months chewing ability development focus on the variety of complementary food as much as possible, the texture is thicker. Prepare foods that need to be chewed repeatedly, such as sliced bread, in order to exercise the baby’s chewing ability and promote the eruption of milk teeth. If your baby is already teething, mom can try to let your baby hold the food by herself with her hands, such as teething cookies, harder fruits, such as apples, etc. Mom can first demonstrate specific chewing movements to her baby, or she can remind her baby to bite food with her teeth through words. Suitable foods for 7 to 9 months: sticky, coarse-grained vegetable puree, grated tofu, crushed fruit, sliced bread, small cookies. 10 to 12 months chewing ability training focus The baby’s complementary food variety is more abundant, you can make the baby’s complementary food into small pieces, such as diced potatoes, mushrooms and winter melon, etc. In order to further develop the baby’s own eating ability, the mother can prepare a waterproof bib, a small spoon suitable for baby to use to let the baby scoop food to eat. This process will not only increase your baby’s interest in eating, but also train your baby’s hand-eye coordination and self-care skills. Suitable food for 10-12 months: soft, small pieces of food, such as noodles, small dumplings, minced meat and vegetables, etc. Above 1 year old chewing ability training focus The baby began to adult food overload, buns, dumplings all kinds of food can eat, parents should not only make tofu, eggplant, tomatoes and other soft dishes for babies, some look harder food, such as broccoli, radish, cucumber, celery and so on can be added to the baby’s recipes. More hard fruits, such as apples, pears, peaches, etc., can be washed and let your baby chew on them directly to exercise your baby’s teeth and make your baby’s baby teeth grow more neatly. Some babies don’t like to chew, so let your baby imitate you can change this bad habit. Parents can do some demonstration actions as a way to remind the baby to bite the food in the mouth, chew a bit before swallowing.