The World Health Organization recommends that babies six months old when you start to add complementary foods, because the baby’s stomach and intestines are not well developed, so the principle of complementary food is: from less to more, from thin to thick, from coarse to fine and so on. So many parents adhering to the principle that the more fine and rotten burnt baby easier to digest and absorb, whether it is the initial addition of complementary foods or the baby eight or nine months old mostly to the baby to eat rotten complementary foods. This practice is actually not desirable. Complementary food is not only to give the baby to supplement the nutrition other than breast milk, but also at the same time with the exercise of the baby chewing, swallowing, the ability to adapt to adult food mission. If you keep giving your baby too soft food, it will affect your baby’s chewing ability, hinder the evolution of digestive ability, and may lead to your baby rejecting solid food after weaning in the future. With the growth of the age of the month, baby moms need to try to follow the complementary food from soft to thick, from fine to usual principle, for different age groups to choose the appropriate state of the complementary food. Chewing ability is not innate Mothers may say, eating is innate, chewing is not just to eat, which need to learn. But in fact, chewing does require mothers to create learning conditions for babies to learn to chew, learn the correct way to chew on the baby’s jawbone and facial muscle development is crucial. It is generally believed that as long as there is an up and down biting action, it means that the baby’s ability to chew food is primed. 6~8 months is the best period or sensitive period to train babies to chew and swallow. At this time, it is necessary to add complementary foods to the baby in time. 8 ~ 12 months is the baby to develop chewing and swallowing skills of the critical period, but at this time does not have the ability to chew food completely, parents should be timely targeted exercise. Once the timing is missed, the baby will lose interest in learning, and then later to train often twice the effort, and the skills will be less than pure, often chewing three or two swallowed or chewed in the mouth unwilling to swallow. Chewing training skills Chewing action needs to be completed tongue, mouth, cheek muscles and teeth coordinate each other’s movement, which requires parents should be based on the baby’s different months of age, in full consideration of the nutritional balance at the same time, but also take into account the hardness of the food, flexibility and crunchy, for the oral cavity muscles and the tongue to provide a variety of different stimuli, so that it is fully developed. Recommendations for complementary foods for babies of various age groups 6~7 months, semi-fluid. Rice char, egg yolk puree, fruit puree, vegetable puree; 8 ~ 9 months, sticky, coarse particles. Vegetable puree, crumbled tofu, crushed fruit, bread slices, small crackers; 10 to 12 months, soft, small crumbles. Bad noodles, thin-skinned dumplings with large fillings, fish congee, minced meat, vegetables; 12 months and older, easily digestible solid foods. Dumplings, wontons, rice, adult foods with not too much fiber (less salt). Tips for baby moms If your baby is over 1 year old and still can’t chew food, you need to work on chewing by letting your baby imitate. For example, if adults chew food in front of the baby in a very exaggerated way, and pretend to be very satisfied, “yummy ah yummy”, the baby will be able to learn! You can also give your baby softer beef jerky, so that your baby can learn to chew.