Every parent wants their baby to grow up fast and tall, but many scientific studies have shown that in addition to genetic factors, acquired factors such as nutrition and exercise also have a great impact on the development and growth of babies. Although parents are aware of the importance of height, but in the issue of how to make babies grow taller or half-understood. Sometimes, some of the wrong practices of parents can easily lead to the baby grow not high Oh!
Mistake one: feeding too much food
Want to baby nutrition, fast high growth, many older generation like to let the baby eat a little more. Experts say that people in a state of hunger, will promote the pituitary gland to secrete more growth hormone, which can stimulate children’s bone growth. However, the baby eats too much will affect the secretion of growth hormone, resulting in the baby not growing taller.
In addition, excess nutrition will also make the baby’s sexual development period early, resulting in premature sexual maturity. Such babies may be taller than their peers at a certain age, or at least not short, but prematurely promote bone development, leading to early closure of the epiphysis before the growth period, and eventually become short.
Suggestions: Parents should pay attention to the fact that the baby only gives him an eighth of fullness at each meal is enough, in addition to pay attention to balanced nutrition, to avoid the baby to develop bad habits of picky and partial eating, the daily intake of protein should be paid attention to, but also do not ignore the green leafy vegetables and fruits.
Mistake 2: Staying at home and not going out
Nowadays, many parents stay at home to rest on Saturdays and Sundays, so many babies stay at home to play video games or watch TV on vacation. In fact, the sun helps promote the growth and development of babies. Long-term home shade, the baby wants to grow taller is also very difficult.
Sunlight is rich in infrared and ultraviolet rays, infrared rays can make blood vessels expand, promote blood circulation, stimulate bone marrow hematopoiesis; ultraviolet rays can kill bacteria and viruses in the skin and air, accelerate the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, improve the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus in the blood, promote the growth and development of babies, and can prevent anemia and rickets.
Suggestion: Take advantage of the holidays, moms and dads hurry up and take their babies outdoors more often! Scientific sunlight can promote the absorption of calcium, outdoor activities can also increase the baby’s activity, running and jumping more sports, the physical and mental health of the baby have a very good role Oh! It is recommended to choose 9:00 am and 4:00 pm sunbathing is better, 2 hours a day is very sufficient.
Mistake three: sitting and playing with toys all day
Babies love to play with toys, especially the family bought a large number of baby educational toys, hoping to promote baby brain development, become more intelligent. But pay attention, baby sitting still for a long time, the baby’s physical development and coordination of the development of a great impact on it!
Exercise, especially walking, running, jumping and other sports, will pull the joints, so that the body’s long bones under stress, thus stimulating the development of cartilage at both ends of the skeleton, stimulating the body to secrete growth hormone, which helps babies grow taller. However, if the baby does not move for a long time, it may become a short person.
Suggestions: Reasonable arrangement of baby’s activities, scientific control of the baby’s exercise is very helpful to baby’s growth. 1 year old baby: a combination of active exercise and passive exercise. Active exercise is to help the baby to carry out some head lifting, crawling or turning over exercises. Passive exercise is mom and dad to do some baby exercises, massage and touch, also conducive to the baby’s growth and development; 1-2 years old baby: more practice running and jumping, shoot the ball, double-legged jumping, help to grow taller; 2-3 years old baby: jump rope, trampoline, single-legged jump are very good to grow taller sports, but pay attention to weight lifting, long-distance running, dumbbell and other sports is not very conducive to growth, look at the athletes of this type of sports on the Games will understand The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the athletes in these types of sports.
Mistake four: waking up the baby too early
Parents have to go to work early in the morning, so they can only wake up their babies a little earlier so that they can help them freshen up and eat breakfast as soon as possible before sending them to kindergarten. But it turns out that waking your baby up too early and disturbing his sleep can affect his height development!
To grow taller, especially in spring, the baby’s growth season, make sure that your baby has enough sleep, at least 8 hours a day. Because the secretion of growth hormone rises significantly within 45-90 minutes after a person falls asleep, and the secretion of growth hormone at night exceeds more than half of the amount throughout the day. Babies only secrete growth hormone when they are sleeping, not when they are awake. Therefore, don’t think that it’s okay to let your baby sleep early. Waking your baby up too early can also affect the secretion of growth hormone!
Suggestion: Don’t let your baby be a night owl, create a good sleeping atmosphere for your baby when he sleeps at night, and keep the surrounding environment quiet, so that your baby can fall asleep faster. Let your baby get enough sleep every day and try to let him wake up naturally in the morning.
Mistake 5: Giving calcium to your baby indiscriminately
We all know that babies cannot grow and develop without calcium absorption, so some parents focus on giving their babies calcium supplements, fearing that they will not have enough calcium in their bodies to affect their growth and development.
Experts say that excessive calcium supplementation may lead to early closure of the epiphysis in young children. During the growth and development stage of children, the epiphysis gradually heals and bone maturation accelerates as they grow older. Before the epiphysis closes, the magnitude and potential for growth is greater, and if the epiphysis closes early, it will inevitably limit the baby’s height.
Suggestion: Generally speaking, food calcium supplementation is safer than drug calcium supplementation, and eating normal food will not cause calcium overload. Breast milk and formula should be the preferred calcium supplement for babies. For older babies, in addition to dairy products, soy products, shrimp, fish and other foods can be given as supplements. In addition, the most important thing is to supplement calcium with vitamin D. The safest way to promote calcium absorption and deposition is to let your baby get more sunlight.