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To avoid the fact that children do not know how to chew and do not know how to eat raw, parents must practice chewing when the child is 6-7 months old. Because of this age, the baby's chewing reflex is beginning to develop, making it easier for them to chew.
1. What is chewing? When to practice chewing?
Chewing is the activity of the oral cavity combined with the tongue to knead and crush food. In which teeth will be the direct tools to crush food. It is necessary to distinguish between the child's inability to chew and the child's sucking of food. If it is sucked, it shows that the child is anorexic. What parents have to do in this case is to cook a variety of dishes and seasoning according to the child's taste.
In order to avoid the fact that the child does not know how to eat raw and the child does not know how to swallow, parents must know that the chewing reflex will usually be present from the time the child is about 6-7 months old, most babies do not have teeth or only a few sporadic tooth, but the baby's gums are hard enough. So start giving your baby chewing at this time and gradually increase the ability to chew through the months of the baby.
2. Consequences when children do not know how to chew
Many parents have the habit of giving their children pureed foods until they have enough teeth to learn to eat rough and chew. This will significantly reduce the chewing reflex, making it more difficult for the baby to chew. In particular, some children are also afraid of chewing and swallowing food, making them very easy to choke, weak chewing muscles, digestive enzymes in the stomach and intestines will not secrete normally.
Do not add nutrients through meals, leading to stunted children, malnutrition, weight loss, weight and height will be lower than other children.
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3. How to train your baby to chew
In the early stages, parents should let the baby chew from porridge and broken rice grains or a few grains of rice so that the baby gets used to it, avoiding the situation that makes the baby afraid of causing choking. Next can be simmered vegetables or a little fish that has been deboned, let the baby hold it and put it in his mouth. Do this every day and be a little patient to form a habit for your child.
Cooking more soft vegetables and putting them on the baby's menu will add essential nutrients for the child's development, gradually increasing the amount of food that must be chewed for the child. If your child doesn't like it, eat it first to show him how delicious the food is, thereby making him more interested.
In conclusion, children who do not know how to chew can be the result of eating liquid and pureed foods for too long. This long-term situation will make it difficult for the baby to adapt to eating rice and other solid foods, causing anorexia later on as well as slow weight gain. Therefore, when children have reached the age of eating rice but cannot chew, parents should patiently implement the above measures to form habits for children.
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