Q：What is physiological anorexia?
A: The concept of “physiological anorexia” is misleading. In fact, it is not that your baby is physiologically anorexic, but that as the age of your baby increases, your baby’s sense of sight and hearing gradually improves and he/she becomes more sensitive to the outside world. Therefore, the amount of milk consumed decreases. To overcome this, you should try to choose a quiet and fixed environment when breastfeeding to avoid outside interference.
Q: Why do babies become anorexic?
A: Anorexia is mostly a psychological problem. When a child accepts a taste that he or she thinks is good, such as juice, calcium water, adult meals, etc., he or she will become averse to bland formula. Then they will lose interest in bland tasting formula or even breast milk. The first step is to find out why, that is, to determine what kind of taste your child likes, and then use that taste as a trigger to gradually restore your child’s preference for milk. For example, by mixing a little juice with the milk. It is important to prevent milk aversion!
Why do babies with complementary foods become anorexic?
Q: My daughter is 8 and a half months old and has been fed with complementary foods, but suddenly she doesn’t eat milk powder and doesn’t suck on the pacifier, is this anorexia or something?
A: At this stage, children may be averse to milk because they have already added complementary foods and the complementary foods are more nourishing and tasty than the formula with a single taste, so children may be averse to milk, but you should still continue to strengthen milk intake and can feed milk in small amounts several times to ensure milk quantity. Because both milk and complementary foods are important sources of nutrition for your child at this stage, you should not use this to feed more complementary foods and reduce the amount of milk intake.
What happened when my child suddenly refused to breastfeed?
Q: My child is six months old and suddenly refuses to breastfeed, I don’t know what to do?
A: This phenomenon may be caused by physiological anorexia. It is best to add some necessary complementary foods to your baby in time, such as rice paste, porridge, egg yolk, fish puree, vegetable puree and fruit puree, etc., which can gradually improve your baby’s anorexia.
What should I do if my mixed-feeding baby refuses to eat formula?
Q: My baby is 66 days old and is mixed feeding. Recently, she does not eat milk and only drinks water, she does not eat milk and formula, she cries when the bottle comes into her mouth, but she drinks water very well.
A: If there is no fever, diarrhea, bad spirit and other symptoms, there is anorexia of milk, like entering the anorexia period. Your child is temporarily eating less milk, and nothing will go wrong as long as he drinks enough water. Children can eat milk according to their own digestive capacity, so that the liver and kidneys get sufficient rest and restore their functions, and generally after about ten days and a half months they will like to eat milk again.
How can a breastfed baby not eat the bottle?
Q: How can a breastfed baby not eat the bottle?
A: One of the biggest problems that breastfed babies encounter is “not accepting the bottle”. Indeed, there is a big difference between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. If you really want to bottle-feed or breastfeed, the mother should never be the one to do it. The mother usually holds the child breastfeeding, suddenly hold the child feeding bottle, this “gas” child way, not only will not work, but also intensify the rejection of the bottle. The mother should leave the scene when feeding the bottle.
How can I get my baby to eat formula if he refuses to take a bottle?
Q: My baby has been averse to milk for a month now and refuses to take a bottle, I am a mixed feeder, I don’t know how to get my baby to drink? I’ve changed bottles and formula, but my baby won’t drink.
A：If breast milk can satisfy the baby, and now the weight is normal, there is no hurry. If, for example, breast milk is not enough, formula milk must be supplemented, you can feed milk when you are hungry. Bottle does not eat, available spoon.
Doctor’s message: the vast majority of babies will experience anorexia period, some will even appear 2 times, which is also an important sign of baby growth and development Oh! As long as the child is in good spirits, parents should not worry too much! Just let nature take its course!