When babies reach a certain age, they start to become more interested in the outside world and become less interested in eating. This, combined with a slowdown in development, may result in a decrease in milk production, not requiring as much milk, and longer intervals between feedings. Sometimes, they don’t eat when they are awake, but eat more when they are about to sleep. Of course, problems such as illness or teething may affect the appetite . It depends on your baby’s condition whether you need to add complementary foods or not. Whether you have the conditions to eat complementary foods According to the current recommendations of the authorities, babies should add complementary foods in time from the full 6 months, for premature babies can wait to correct the gestational age around 6 months to add complementary foods. Meet the following conditions can be considered to add complementary foods: 1, the baby is interested in complementary foods, see adults eating very greedy; 2, tongue lift reflex disappears, can swallow the food smoothly; 3, can sit or in a certain support situation to sit still. When you first start adding complementary foods, you can start with infant rice flour, mixed with breast milk, milk powder or water to make a puree, or you can start with other complementary foods, such as pureed meat and other iron-rich complementary foods, rather than rice soup, juice, vegetable water and other complementary foods with very low nutrient density. And pay attention to spoon feeding, rather than put into the bottle too. It is true that some babies are more interested in complementary foods at a certain age and not so interested in milk. What should I do if my baby has less milk? Usually, babies have a good appetite in the first 3 months and the amount of milk increases from birth, until around 4 months of age when the amount of milk may remain the same as a month ago or even less than before. If your baby’s total milk supply is about 800 ml or more a day, it is generally a good amount of milk. If it is consistently too low, for example, below 500 ml, and may be accompanied by poor spirits or significantly slower growth, it suggests that there may be an abnormality and that you need to see your doctor. Pay attention to monitoring your baby’s height and weight development. If the height and weight increase within an acceptable range, there is no need to worry too much. Sometimes babies do not eat a lot, but parents feel that they eat less. It is also convenient to use the growth curve to monitor the dynamic development of the baby, now there are many parenting APPs with this function, as long as the baby’s height, weight, head circumference and other indicators input, you can understand the level of baby development, you can compare with the standard, but also before and after the comparison.