Improper addition of complementary foods may affect your baby’s development. Moreover, some research suggests that due to improper addition of complementary foods, it will not only cause feeding problems for babies and increase the chances of picky eating and partiality, but also cause malnutrition or excess energy, which in turn affects the development and health of babies. Complementary foods added at the wrong time According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, babies should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, six months after the continuation of breastfeeding on the basis of the addition of complementary foods, you can continue to breastfeed babies 2 years old. Add complementary foods need to grasp the timing, usually, we can wait for the baby full 6 months in time to add complementary foods, special circumstances, you can moderate advance or delay. But not earlier than 4 months. Earlier than 4 months will cause baby intolerance to complementary foods, or increase the risk of allergies. Too late may miss the “window period” for adding complementary foods, making it more difficult to add complementary foods, and may also cause malnutrition in babies. The wrong kind of complementary foods According to projections, for babies aged 7 to 12 months who continue to be breastfed, 99% of the iron, 75% of the zinc, 80% of the vitamin B6 and 50% of the vitamin C needed need to be obtained from complementary foods. In China, the high incidence of iron deficiency or iron deficiency anemia at the age of 7 to 12 months has a certain relationship with the improper addition of complementary foods. Some babies develop well within 6 months, but after the addition of complementary foods, due to the improper addition of complementary foods, which affects the development of the baby, resulting in a continuous decline in the baby’s growth curve. First of all, the complementary food added to the baby, need to pay attention to a certain density, that is, the energy density should not be too low. If you give your baby all the rice soup, vegetable water, fruit juice, chicken soup and so on too much soup soup, it will cause the baby intake of complementary food is not enough. According to the recommendation of the World Health Organization, the energy density of each 100 ml or 100 g of complementary food should be 80 kcal, which is higher than that of 100 ml of breast milk or normal milk powder. If you want to achieve this value, you should not give your baby too much soup broth, but from the beginning of adding complementary foods, you have to give pureed foods, such as baby rice powder, pureed meat, pureed vegetables or pureed fruit, the combined energy density should be close to the WHO recommendation. As the baby’s age increases, the proportion of energy provided by milk is decreasing, and the proportion of energy provided by complementary foods is increasing, but 7 to 24 months of age need to maintain about 500 ml of milk, 15 to 75 grams of meat, poultry and fish, and 1 egg yolk or egg. Incorrect traits of complementary foods Reasonable addition of complementary foods can promote the development of the senses of taste, smell, touch and other senses in infants and young children, exercise their oral motor skills, including tongue movement, gnawing, chewing, swallowing, etc., and help their neuropsychological, as well as the development of language skills. Infants between 6 and 10 months of age are more receptive to foods of different textures. Therefore, complementary food addition requires constant change of food texture, from puree to end to crumble, and gradually transition to adult diet. From the beginning of complementary feeding, babies should be allowed to learn to eat complementary foods with a spoon, and at the same time, they need to be trained to eat complementary foods on their own. Babies may be more interested if they are allowed to eat on their own. However, many parents lack to give their babies enough opportunity to eat complementary foods by themselves, and even when they are very old, they still feed their babies, allowing them to develop bad eating habits. Some doctors found that the normal pronunciation of children was affected by improper addition of complementary foods, and after instructing parents to add complementary foods to their children correctly, the children’s developmental problems improved. This suggests that improper addition of complementary foods not only affects the child’s physical development, but also affects the child’s speech development, eating habits, etc.