Many breastfed babies are used to their mother's nipples. When they change the milk bottle to drink milk powder at the beginning of weaning, they are not willing to eat it. This makes many parents very worried. What should we do if the baby does not eat milk powder after weaning? Let's learn from Xiaobian.
Baby doesn't like the taste of milk powder
Squeeze the breast milk into the bottle to see if the baby can accept it. If the baby still doesn't eat, it may be that the baby is not used to the bottle and the pacifier; if the baby eats, it is mostly because he doesn't like the taste of milk powder, so he can try a brand close to the taste of breast milk.
Although no matter how good a pacifier is, it will still feel different from eating mother's milk, but you can choose a closer pacifier. Another way is to boil the nipple more and make it soft. Maybe the baby will accept it a little.
Give breast milk more confidence
If you are too young to eat complementary food, you should eat more breast milk. Many mothers think that they have little breast milk, in fact, breast milk may be more than you think. When the baby is not willing to eat milk powder, it is more important to play the role of breast milk.
Make the mouth of the nipple bigger
Many children do not like to eat milk powder when they see the bottle or eat milk powder, they cry and turn their heads. When you are in a good mood, you will hold the nipple in your mouth, but not suck it. Open the mouth of the pacifier, and you will eat it if it leaks into your mouth. Although it's slower, it's always better than not to eat it. You can eat about 90ml at a time.
Eating and drinking in front of the baby
At a certain stage, the baby will be very novel to the outside world, see what you are eating will be very greedy, also want to taste. So sometimes she intentionally drinks in front of her or pretends to drink milk, she will always watch, and then quickly give her to eat, and sometimes eat a little, which is also applicable to eating complementary food.
Try something other than a bottle
Most babies will accept spoons, but Dingdang won't either. Tried on the cup, can drink a little, quickly bought a learning cup, but still don't like it. Some mothers said they could try the cap on the bottle. I also want to use the dropper of xiaoshierkang, but the speed is too slow. There is also a kind of weaning bottle. There is a small spoon in front. You can try it.
Add milk powder to other things
Add milk powder to rice flour and porridge, but say that the nutrition of milk powder and rice flour will offset, but it can't control so much. The offset point is better than not eating. Anyway, the instructions of rice flour also say that it can be made with milk powder. In order to avoid high water temperature damaging the nutrients in milk powder, rice flour is first washed with hot water, and then milk powder is added when it is cooler. In the days when you don't eat any milk powder, it's maintained by this point.
In addition, when changing milk powder for your baby, do not switch between three or nine days or three rainy days. Instead, you should find a time when the climate is more suitable to change.
It should be noted that this kind of 'anorexia' is usually a temporary phenomenon. If the baby really does not accept milk powder or has other problems, it should consult a health care doctor, a nutrition doctor or an endocrine doctor in time to determine the cause and treat the symptoms.