Many parents like to compare the height and weight of their children with each other. In the process of raising a child, we always unconsciously think that the child loves to eat and grow fat is good, if the child is a little thin, the mother’s heart is always uncomfortable, and even blame themselves for not raising a child. In fact, the baby’s height and weight can be monitored, mothers do not arbitrarily subjective to determine whether the baby is fat, or thin. It’s not good for your baby to be too fat or too thin! How to monitor whether the child is too light or overweight, mothers can refer to the Hong Kong Department of Health revised child height and weight monitoring table. Monitoring method: 1, first measure the child’s height and weight; 2, from the following “child’s height” column, find the most similar height; 3, in the height column to find the “overweight” and “underweight “4. Compare the child’s weight with the reference weight. Male baby height and weight monitoring table: Female baby height and weight monitoring table: Example: a female baby’s height is 91 cm, if her weight is less than 10.3 kg, it indicates that she is too light; more than 15.5 kg, it indicates that she is overweight; if her weight is around 13.5 kg, it indicates that the child’s development is relatively good. What are the causes of childhood obesity in babies? How to avoid it? Childhood obesity is not the same as simple overnutrition, but one of the manifestations of malnutrition. Usually lead to the child appears child obesity reasons have the following points: 1, regardless of whether the child is hungry, crying to give food, long-term down overfeeding, resulting in obesity. 2.Children are picky eaters, prefer high-fat, high-calorie food. 3, lack of physical activity, physical exertion, coupled with excess nutrition, fat accumulates more and more. 4, genetic factors. Usually too obese parents, children are also more likely to be fat. 5.Children obesity. Due to long-term energy intake more than consumption, resulting in excessive accumulation of fat in the body and caused by the disease. Weight more than the same age, the same height children’s normal standard 20% can be called obese. What are the causes of slow growth of babies? How to prevent? 1.Baby’s slow growth is not only the lack of certain nutrients or trace elements, but also the overall nutritional imbalance; 2.In addition, it may also be caused by the insufficient amount of food and unreasonable diet structure; 3.If the nature of the food is beyond the acceptable range of the baby, resulting in the original food in the stool, it means that the baby has indigestion; 4.If the baby is suffering from certain chronic diseases. It may lead to inadequate absorption of nutrients in the baby’s food, then do not judge the root cause of the problem on your own, seek the help of a doctor is the most reliable solution; 5, growth retardation. Insufficient protein, limited growth of new tissues, reduced levels of growth mediator (SMC), reduced activity, and inability to effectively stimulate cartilage growth, will inevitably result in dwarfism. Prevention of slow growth in children should start from the following points: 1. The most common cause of growth retardation is not only insufficient protein and energy intake, but also insufficient intake of other macronutrients. Therefore, in daily life, in addition to giving your child enough protein, you should also ensure that your child has a balanced diet, not to be partial and picky, and get different nutrients from different foods. 2. Sleep has a very close relationship with the growth hormone that promotes body height. The growth hormone of young children is only secreted at night when they are sleeping, and basically not during the day when they are awake (a small amount is secreted during adolescence, but the amount is very small), so in order to let children have better physical quality, we should pay more attention to their sleep. 3, exercise can promote blood circulation, improve the nutrition of bones, accelerate bone growth, dense bone mass, and promote the growth of body length. Parents should combine the child’s level of athletic ability to encourage more exercise. 4, alert to certain diseases affecting the growth and development of the child, at all times should pay attention to the health of the child, when found certain minor problems, early treatment, in order to minimize the impact of disease on the child!