I believe that many mothers have too many tangles on the issue of calcium supplementation, such as whether their babies can consume enough calcium in their diet or not? If you need additional calcium, how to choose calcium products? What should I do if my baby doesn’t like calcium? The author has collected some knowledge about calcium supplementation for babies, and I’d like to share it with you here! The importance of calcium to babies is well known to mothers. Babies grow very rapidly in the first year of life, increasing in height by about 20cm, which requires a large amount of calcium salts deposited in the bone tissue to promote the formation of new bone and bone growth. Calcium deficiency in babies, in serious cases, there will be a stroke at the same time there will be skeletal and muscle performance, such as late closure of fontanelle, late teething, will stand and walk late, there will be chicken chest hunchback, rotund legs, muscle weakness and so on. 1.Can babies get enough calcium from their daily diet? If your baby is 0-5 months old, if he/she takes formula milk, he/she can get 600-800ml of milk a day to meet his/her body’s calcium needs. At 6 months of age, the calcium requirement reaches its first peak. With the introduction of complementary foods, the amount of milk drunk per day gradually decreases. The intake of calcium increases to 400 mg per day, so calcium supplements should be started from this time onwards. 2. How much calcium should I take at one time to get the right amount? The dose of calcium supplementation should be adjusted according to the daily calcium requirement of the corresponding age group (0-6, 7-12 and 12-36 months: 300, 400 and 600 mg/day respectively) and dietary calcium intake. The rough calculation of dietary calcium intake is as follows: baby’s dietary calcium intake = (calcium in milk + calcium in solid food) × absorption rate * (%) baby needs calcium supplement = calcium requirement for the whole day – dietary calcium intake the amount of calcium in formula milk, calculated by consulting the table of nutrients on the outer package of milk powder, for example, the baby’s milk amount for the whole day 800 milligrams, if each 100 milliliters of milk contains 50 mg of calcium, then the whole day can 400 mg of elemental calcium from milk. The calcium content of solid foods can be found on the internet or in the food composition table. Calcium content and absorption rates vary among foods and are influenced by individual and dietary factors, and not the amount of calcium consumed can be completely absorbed. Generally speaking, the daily intestinal calcium absorption of infants is 60% of the total amount of food consumed. 3, choose calcium products, taste can not be ignored for the first time to choose calcium products for babies, mothers may be more concerned about the type of calcium, and calcium content, often ignoring one of the most important point, is the taste of calcium. The Expert Consensus on Scientific Calcium Supplementation for Infants and Young Children Aged 0-3 Years in China provides mothers with a basis for their choice, which they can refer to: “Infants and young children should choose natural food flavors for calcium supplementation, and the taste is related to the raw material composition of calcium supplements and the composition of excipients. Infants’ taste buds are developing rapidly, and the closer the calcium supplement is to the taste of natural foods, the more it helps infants’ taste buds to develop. Calcium is too sweet will cause infants to prefer sweet foods and beverages, easily leading to dental caries and obesity, too heavy taste stimulation will also lead to taste buds to respond to sluggish, and may lead to infants become picky and paranoid, the impact on the healthy growth of babies.” 4, good feeding is also important In fact, calcium does not have to be made into a sweet and sour fruit flavor to feed, breast milk or cow’s milk is the main food for 0 to 3 years old babies, so for this period of infants and toddlers, light milk flavor calcium baby can smoothly accept, is also the most suitable. The infant’s stomach volume is relatively small and most of them need to be fed by adults, so it is convenient to choose calcium supplements that can be brewed evenly with only a small amount of water.